Storm surge comes and goes quickly without major impacts but mixed conditions linger on

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The latest storm hit the South Coast Wednesday night into Thursday morning while most people were sleeping and the morning has been a time to check for impacts and wait out the rest of the system.

Areas including Montecito Creek which, at times, has come alive and over its banks has held all that this storm could produce.

Mission Creek through Oak Park is making that somewhat tricky "S" turn without a problem and debris on the waterfront is light compared to past storms which coated parking lots with wet sand.

The construction area by the Cabrillo Boulevard roundabout has one area that took in a lot of water and it created a small pond by the side of the Santa Barbara Cemetery facing the Andree Clark Bird Refuge.

By midday, the weather radar showed just pockets of rain, some with intensities, including one cell over San Marcos Pass by Cachuma Lake, along Highway 154.

Emergency crews were also cleaning up a rollover crash in the southbound lanes of Highway 101 at the Gaviota curve. There were no major injuries.

One delivery driver for the Santa Barbara Fish Market Eric Parker, he is on the move in all kinds of weather, but tries to find up close parking in the yellow loading zones. "Sometimes people are parked a long time. I think that's the more difficult thing, especially in the weather," said Parker. He was wearing a casual work hoodie, and for today's blustery weather that was perfect. " I just kind of do what keeps me warm. And it was on and off today, so, you know, just in between," he said.

Along the Isla Vista coast, there were no urgent erosion concerns, especially in areas where UC Santa Barbara students are living over looking the ocean. Some of the properties have 40 residents inside.

Nearby at Goleta Beach, which just had millions of dollars in upgrades for the parking and recreation areas, along with the opening of the new Ellwood restaurant, the stormy conditions were in check and not overwhelming.

A visitor from Oregon, Maryann Woolard she said, "it's warm to me. Feels great. It's really not any difference today because it's rainy and cloudy."

From one of the coldest areas of the nation, a visitor from North Dakota said she left, "freezing." But it was much more than that for Harper Wilkens. "Negative 40's a couple of weeks ago." Wednesday she said she was in a "bikini on the beach and everyone else was in their raincoats and their winter jackets."

There's still a chance of rain in the middle of next week

natural sound of wind

Maryann Woolard

Visitor

 "so it's warm to me. Feels great."

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.    This visitor is from Oregon.

Maryann Woolard

Visitor

"   it's really not any difference today because it's rainy and cloudy"

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.     And for a visitor from North Dakota.....she left .....

Harper Wilkens

Visitor

 "Freezing cold. Flat    (john)  temperature?

-40s. A couple weeks ago"

Harper Wilkens

Visitor

".....Yesterday I was in a bikini on the beach, and everyone else was in their raincoats and their winter jackets. "

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For those living along the Mission Creek zone, like here in Oak Park.    the capacity had a lot of spare room and over flowing was  not going to be an issue.