Santa Barbara hit hard by storms: record rainfall, flooded streets, m…

This weekend’s atmospheric river uprooted trees, caked roads in mud and sent toxic runoff flowing into the ocean, but nowhere got quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara, which experienced the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county’s recorded history.

According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday…