In other developments, a five-year-old boy who was swept away by rising floodwaters has been named as Kyle Roan. Rescuers searched for the child for seven hours, and only his shoe was recovered.
Officials said bystanders were able to pull the mother out of the truck, but Kyle was swept out of the vehicle and downstream, likely into a river. There was no evacuation order in the area at the time.
But an evacuation order in the 10,000-strong town of Montecito - home to celebrities including Harry and Meghan as well as Oprah Winfrey - has now been lifted.She said:"This is crazy. We are having unprecedented rain. This creek near to our house never flows ever [and it's] probably about 9ft up. The evacuation order came on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes in 2018.'Yikes!' Ellen DeGeneres shows floodsThe blustery weather has left the large homeless population in California in a precarious situation. At least one homeless person has died, and more than a dozen people were rescued from an encampment on the Ventura River.
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