Storm Is Gone but Problems Remain : Weather: Scattered showers are predicted for today and Monday, but the bulk of the system has left, forecasters say.

Most of Ventura County enjoyed sunshine Saturday as a major storm system that dumped as much as nine inches of rain in the mountains moved out of the area.

As some residents coped with minor flooding and mudslides, forecasters predicted a few scattered showers today and Monday. But the bulk of the storm has moved to Arizona, they said, and no heavy rainfall is expected until another storm arrives, possibly by early Tuesday.

That was good news for George and Vera Husband of Simi Valley, who awoke Saturday to find about three feet of water in their back yard after three days of rain.

“I was afraid it would come into the kitchen,” said Vera Husband, 50. “I’ve got a house full of boys and I don’t want to move out.” The couple were caring for two grandchildren and three foster children, she said.

The high water covered a few adjacent yards and part of the alley behind the house on Ashland Avenue, but the Husbands’ back yard was hardest hit.

“Behind their house is a big low spot,” said Ventura County Fire Capt. Keith Mashburn, who deployed firefighters and equipment to pump some of the water to the street so it could be carried away by storm drains.

In Moorpark, A.J. Wilson, 53, worried about a hill that was sliding toward his house. “One of the trees that’s planted up there has moved 15 feet down the hill toward the house,” said Wilson, who has lived in the two-story house on Ashbrook Lane, below Tierra Rejada Road, for six years.

Wilson said he believes a culvert that runs under Tierra Rejada is leaking water, causing the hill to slide. “Last night it was like a river was going under the road,” Wilson said.

The top of the hill has slipped down about eight feet from the wall that separates it from the street, Wilson said. “There’s not really a lot I can do except sit with my shovel and watch what happens.”

A larger mudslide late Friday forced Caltrans to close California 33 about 10 miles north of Ojai, the California Highway Patrol said. Officials said they cannot predict when the road will reopen.

Although not much rain is expected, today may be marked by an event long awaited by local water officials: the overflowing of the Lake Casitas dam.

Dam tender Dwight Clement said Saturday that the reservoir--which has not been full since 1986--was half a foot away from spilling on Saturday and would probably overflow into the spillway today.