Ellen DeGeneres is giving people a look at just how dangerous the recent heavyrains have made the area of Montecito, where she and other stars like Oprahand Prince Harry live.
In a clip posted on Twitter, the former talk show host, 64, can be seenstanding on a couch, showing off the raging water behind her. DeGeneres saidthe creek is located right by her house and “never flows,” but the heavy rainsfrom a recent storm have changed that.
“It’s probably about 9ft up, and it could go another 2ft up,” she said in thevideo, moving the camera to display just how powerful the water was. “We havehorses ready to evacuate.”
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On Monday, the area was hit with the latest round of severe storms movingthroughout the state, with the National Weather Service reporting at least 8inches of rain falling over the area over the course of 12 hours, per NBCNews.
The heavy rains and flooding prompted the Montecito fire department to issuean evacuationorder for allMontecito residents and residents of Sycamore Canyon in Santa Barbara onMonday.
In the nearby county of San Luis Obispo, residents were also told to evacuatewith numerous areas experiencing extreme flooding. At least one driver waskilled while a mother and her 5-year-old were washed away in flood waters.Bystanders were able to rescue to the woman but the search for the boy had tobe called off as conditions worsened.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom also declared a state of emergency one dayearlier, noting that 12 residents have already died from flooding and otherstorm-related impacts over the past few weeks.
The impacts from the heavy rains are reminiscent of a similar storm that hitMontecito in January, 2018 and killed 23 people – something DeGeneres touchedon in her video.
“This is the 5 year anniversary from the fire and mudslides that killed somany people and people lost their homes, their lives,” DeGeneres said. “Thisis crazy. On the five year anniversary, we’re having unprecedented rain.”
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“We need to be nicer to mother nature cause mother nature is not happy withus,” she added. “Let’s all do our part. Stay safe everybody.”
January 2, 2023, Sacramento County, California, USA: Flooded homes are seen inPoint Pleasant, California, on Monday, as an evacuation order for residents inPoint Pleasant and a shelter-in-place order for those in Wilton remained ineffect. A historic atmospheric river dumped a deluge of rain across NorthernCalifornia in the final days of 2022. The Cosumnes River swelled to itshighest level ever in history on Sunday and parts of Sacramento Countyflooded.
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Following the 2018 storm, DeGeneres got emotional on her show discussing thedeadly destruction to Montecito following mudslides caused by the heavy rainsand her and her wife Portia de Rossi’s evacuation from their home.
“It’s not just a wealthy community, it’s filled with a lot of different typesof people from all backgrounds. And there are families missing, there arepeople who are missing family members,” DeGeneres said, sharing a photo of thestreet in front of her house that was filled with mud-covered debris.
“They’re finding people and bodies and I mean, you hear the word mudslide andyou have no idea the impact that it has, but after the largest fire inCalifornia history, it’s catastrophic. It is beyond recognizable,” she added.
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Oprah, who also lives in Montecito, Facetimed the host sharing that shethought the damage was “devastating.”
“But we’re going to do what we do,” Oprah said. “We’re going to come togetherand we’re going to do what great Americans do all the time. We’re going tohelp each other. We’re going to help each other out wherever needed.”