Flooding, mudslides just outside Lake Tahoe Basin
By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee
Heavy rain battered the foothills during the late afternoon and early evening today, with reports of road flooding and rock and mudslides in El Dorado, Placer and Nevada counties.
Some of the heaviest rain in the past six hours was along the Highway 49 corridor, with a little more than an inch in Pilot Hill and 1.11 inches in the Auburn area.
About 1.75 inches of rain was recorded at Blue Canyon on Interstate 80 during the 24-hour period ending at 5pm, said Angus Barkhuff, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Sacramento.