The big storm was worse than the El Nino in 95 and this storm filled Lake Casitas. Just 2 months earlier in November 2004 I took photos from a plane and took one that showed the old road at the bottom of the Lake. https://pbase.com/roy/image/36067680
Click on a gallery below to view photos taken by me and by Tom.
There are also photos of Casitas Springs and Foster Park taken by Curt Ammerman at
https://pbase.com/digeeedad/flood_2005
Here is a 10 mb video of the 2005 La Conchita mudslide-
http://www.annointed.net/video/mudslide.wmv