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Scenes of Highway Damage by Marci
Storm in Southern California
1. Shoulder washed out and pavement undermined on State Higl
way 26 by flood waters of Santa Ana River near San Bernardir
city limits.
2. Canton Creek usually a placid little stream went wild. and to
out a large section of embankment and pavement of Ridge Roll'
Alternate near Piru Gorge.
3, A raging flood rushed down from the San Bernardino Mounta
range through Cajon Canyon washing out a large section of tt
National Old Trails Highway (U. S. 66) in Cajon Pass.
4. Normally an insignificant stream, Placerita Creek whirled wi1
mighty force around a bend and scoured out over 10,000 cub
yards of the Newhall-Saugus highway in Los Angeles Count
5. Warm Creek ros.e out of its banks and cut a new channel th;
entirely washed away a portion of State Highway No. :
between Redlands and Colton.
6. Another large section of the Ridge Route Alternate in L,
Angeles County was washed out when Piru Creek scoured aw,
paved slopes.
7. San Antonio Wash crossed the Foothill Boulevard near the we
San Bernardino County line destroying shoulders and paveme1
and depositing a mass of large boulders.