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This weekend’s atmospheric river uprooted trees, caked roads in mud and sent toxic runoff flowing into the ocean, but nowhere got quite as hard hit as Santa Barbara, which saw the soggiest three-day stretch of November rain in the county’s recorded history.

According to data from the National Weather Service, the Santa Barbara Airport received 6.67 inches of rain between Friday and Sunday, breaking the location’s previous three-day rain record total set in 2002 when it received 5.66 inches.

The downpour was so heavy because it pulled in moisture all the way from Hawaii as it rotated, said Bryan Lewis, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard.

“Instead of quickly

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