Much of California is still digging out after days of torrential rain, floods and mudslides. NBC News’ Dana Griffin is in hard-hit Wrightwood, where cleanup is just beginning.

More severe weather is forecast for an already soaked California, raising risk of additional mudslides and debris flows.

Heavy rain storms across large parts of California triggered floods and mudslides and left three dead as of Christmas night, according to local officials. The storms - which were expected to continue through Friday - brought 11 inches (27 cms) of rainfall to some parts of Los Angeles County, prompted evacuations and shut down major roads.

Residents and local officials are working to clean up the destruction caused by rain-triggered mudslides in Wrightwood, California, where homes and cars were buried under several feet of thick mud and rocks after a multi-day Christmas week storm.

A shelter-in-place order remained in effect Thursday for the small community of Wrightwood in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California, which bore the brunt of the holiday atmospheric

Forecasters said Southern California could see its wettest Christmas in years and warned about flash flooding and mudslides.

Southern California faced dangerous conditions as heavy rain soaked the region, raising the risk of floods and mudslides even after the storms slowed. Governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency in six counties,