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it. carter. reporter: scott, these are just a few of the hundreds of vehicles that drivers had to abandon as a wall of mud came down the hill and overwhelmed this highway. it happened so fast, that many of these cars were buried up to their windows in a matter of minutes. the floods came with little warning. oh, my god! run for yr life! reporter: torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. nearly 200 cars and trucks were overwhelmed in less than 10 minutes. i have never seen anything like this. reporter: how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out there? only escape for some was through the floodwater. others climbed on top of their cars. all the cars are floating beside us. reporter: further east, trucker will nissen captured this video as 20 feet of mud and rocks lifted several sem is, across the highway. search and rescue teams are now looking for c ....
of these cars were buried up to their windows in a matter of minutes. the floods came with little warning. oh, my god! run for yr life! reporter: torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. nearly 200 cars and trucks were overwhelmed in less than 10 minutes. i have never seen anything like this. reporter: how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out there? only escape for some was through the floodwater. others climbed on top of their cars. all the cars are floating beside us. reporter: further east, trucker will nissen captured this video as 20 feet of mud and rocks lifted several sem is, across the highway. search and rescue teams are now looking for cars that may have been buried completely. deputy john dietrich. we re trying to probe down we re not sure, but we don t want to leave somebody potentially trapped down there. reporter: golf ball-sized ....
along highways north of los angeles. road crews spent the whole day hauling away the mud and the vehicles, just to try to get the roads open 15. carter evans is in the thick of it. carter. reporter: scott, these are just a few of the hundreds of vehicles that drivers had to abandon as a wall of mud came down the hill and overwhelmed this highway. it happened so fast, that many of these cars were buried up to their windows in a matter of minutes. the floods came with little warning. oh, my god! run for yr life! reporter: torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. nearly 200 cars and trucks were overwhelmed in less than 10 minutes. i have never seen anything like this. reporter: how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out there? only escape for some was through the floodwater. others climbed on top of their cars. all the cars are floating beside us. rep ....
floods that triggered massive mudslides. this was the result. cars and trucks, hundreds of them, were stuck deep in the mud angeles. road crews spent the whole day hauling away the mud and the vehicles, just to try to get the roads open 15. carter evans is in the thick of it. carter. reporter: scott, these are just a few of the hundreds of vehicles that drivers had to abandon as a wall of mud came down the hill and overwhelmed this highway. it happened so fast, that many of these cars were buried up to minutes. the floods came with little warning. oh, my god! run for yr life! reporter: torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. nearly 200 cars and trucks were minutes. i have never seen anything like this. reporter: how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out there? only escape for some was through the floodwater. others climbed on top of their cars. all ....
along highways north of los angeles. road crews spent the whole day hauling away the mud and the vehicles, just to try to get the roads open 15. carter evans is in the thick of it. carter. reporter: scott, these are just a few of the hundreds of vehicles that drivers had to abandon as a wall of mud came down the hill and overwhelmed this highway. it happened so fast, that many of these cars were buried up to their windows in a matter of minutes. the floods came with little warning. oh, my god! run for yr life! reporter: torrential rain, four inches an hour, triggered massive mudslides, trapping rush hour drivers on busy interstate 5. nearly 200 cars and trucks were overwhelmed in less than 10 minutes. i have never seen anything like this. reporter: how long is that going to take to clear the mud and all those automobiles out there? only escape for some was through the floodwater. others climbed on top of their cars. all the cars are floating beside us. rep ....