Massive storm sends mud and debris flowing through LA’s Hollywood Hills

A vehicle buried by a mudslide in the Beverly Crest area of Los Angeles (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

A storm of historic proportions unleashed record levels of rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-pound homes, posing a grave danger to the city’s large homeless population and knocking out power for more than a million people in California.

The storm was the second one fuelled by an atmospheric river to hit the state in just a few days.