As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California\'s San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on mountainsides denuded by recent fires.
Using painstaking research and heart-rending firsthand accounts, historian Art Cobery paints a picture of survival and rede.
A roaring wall of rocks, mud and water crashed down the canyons, uprooting trees, tossing boulders and automobiles like toys and carving a path of destruction.
As Crescenta Valley residents gathered to ring in the 1934 New Year, a cloudburst broke over Southern California\'s San Gabriel Mountains, unleashing a deluge on mountainsides denuded by recent fires