Up to 70 homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California are under mandatory evacuations, because of the threat of a mudslide Tuesday (10/13).

Those evacuated homes are in the same area burned out by the Lockheed Fire this summer near Last Chance and Swanton Roads in Davenport.

In the Santa Cruz Mountains the rain began driving down during pre-dawn darkness making the morning commute over the summit even more challenging.

The wet weather has firefighters on alert. The Big Creek Cal Fire crew's task was to look for sliding debris and monitor the rise of water in the all the creeks. Crews are worried about possible mudslides from the mountain slopes that burned during the August Lockheed Fire.

On a different ridge of the mountain in Felton, power outages led to three schools closing; San Lorenzo Valley Elementary, Middle and High School. At Bonny Doon Elementary, Cal Fire crews came in to clear drains and save a building from flooding, but so far most of the school has toughed it out and remained open.

One Felton resident said he already had to empty his rain gauge of five inches of water.