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Shots, flash flooding, burying cars deep in the mud. Several people had to be rescued from their vehicles. Homes have also been damaged by the muddy flood waters. All of this was triggered by severe thunderstorms. In fact the National Weather service says at one point, the rain was actually falling at a rate of one inch every ten minutes. All of that is causing major problems along the well traveled grapevine section of i 5. At this hour, a 30mile stretch of i5 is closed just north of castaic. We got off the phone with the Highway Patrol and the officer says the road will be shut down in both directions for another 24 hours. Lets bring in our meteorologist mark tamayo who has been tracking the conditions. The rain, this is just remarkable how fast it was coming down. It shows you can severity of the thunderstorms. The good news, the main action has lifted to the north. But ....