2010-01-21 / Front Page

What’s next, building an ark?

WENDY PIERRO/Acorn Newspapers
BRACING  FOR MORE DOWNPOURS–Thousand  Oaks  resident  Dawn  Mullan  and  her boyfriend, Brent Charlton, unload sand bags to control water around Mullan’s home after heavy rains on Monday. This week’s torrential rainfall has clogged and overloaded some drains. Through 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Ventura County Watershed Protection District reported that 3 to 4 inches of rain have fallen from the storms that began Sunday. See related photo on page 22. WENDY PIERRO/Acorn Newspaper BRACING FOR MORE DOWNPOURS–Thousand Oaks resident Dawn Mullan and her boyfriend, Brent Charlton, unload sand bags to control water around Mullan’s home after heavy rains on Monday. This week’s torrential rainfall has clogged and overloaded some drains. Through 10 a.m. Wednesday, the Ventura County Watershed Protection District reported that 3 to 4 inches of rain have fallen from the storms that began Sunday. See related photo on page 22. WENDY PIERRO/Acorn Newspaper
AND MORE TO COME–Roz Mullan tries to salvage drenched items from the garage of her Thousand Oaks home after heavy rains on Monday. Mullan moved into the house in August and was unaware of the  drainage issues until this week’s storms caused flooding in her garage and front yard. AND MORE TO COME–Roz Mullan tries to salvage drenched items from the garage of her Thousand Oaks home after heavy rains on Monday. Mullan moved into the house in August and was unaware of the drainage issues until this week’s storms caused flooding in her garage and front yard.

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