Urgent alerts came too late for deadly California mudslide victims
(LA Times Dodgers)

Josie Gower woke up to the sound of rain hammering the roof of her Montecito home around 3 a.m. Tuesday. She walked downstairs, where her boyfriend had been keeping an eye on the storm, and together they opened the door to look outside. A wall of mud and boulders as big as pickup trucks crashed...