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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ive months after dozens of Vallejo residents sought medical treatment after being overpowered by an unbearable odor that spread over their community, a collection of federal, state and local agencies have failed to follow up on the cause or have declined to release results of their investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fumes prompted about 800 phone calls to authorities, who imposed a shelter-in-place order covering much of the city of 118,000. The onset of the sickening odor appears to have coincided with a petroleum spill at the Phillips 66 refinery the same evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noxious smell dissipated within a few hours. By then, local, regional, state and federal agencies had been alerted and said they were trying to pinpoint the source and composition of the fumes -- both of which remain unconfirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZB8Pth0HV2bnjkBQ2TZhLuNCenbEg1ig\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo, which told residents several times that its Fire Department was investigating the odor, never actually launched a probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, whose job it is to regulate sources of air pollution, said it investigated the odor. But the agency never compiled a report on its source, and its staff says they never even made written notes about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard announced in October that it had determined that crude oil detected in the waters of San Pablo Bay came from either a marine terminal at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo or a tanker that was unloading there. 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He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/19/new-vallejo-mayor-wants-oil-industry-to-pay-for-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">called on the oil industry to pay for new monitors\u003c/a> in Vallejo and communities near the four major oil refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after the mysterious odor, the city has yet to buy new devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have identified the equipment we think will be most useful, but have not yet purchased it,\" Keen said in a recent email. \"This will be part of budget discussions we'll be having with the City Council shortly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still carrying this as a priority project,\" Sampayan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it was just recently that -- for the first time since the odor -- Vallejo city officials met with Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff to discuss the September mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Regulators: No Documentation on Vallejo Incident \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says it completed its investigation into the noxious fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air District reached the same conclusions as the lead agency (U.S. Coast Guard),\" district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said in a recent email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies were unable to determine the exact cause of the spill. In addition there was no conclusive determination for the cause of the odor in Vallejo,\" Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested a copy of the air district's report about the odor. But no report was ever written, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We only write a report when a violation of a district regulation is documented,\" Borrmann said. \"In this case there were no violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED then requested copies of all documents and email correspondence related to the air district's work on the odor and spill. But no such materials exist, district officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have spoken to our enforcement staff, and there are no documents or emails,\" wrote Rochelle Reed, an employee at the air district's public records office, in an email. \"The air district had a minor role, and staff consulted by phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coast Guard Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district is not the only agency that has failed to produce evidence of its inquiry into the Phillips 66 oil spill that apparently led to the Vallejo incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Coast Guard seeking documentation of its spill investigation beyond the summary it offered in an October press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release said the agency's inquiry determined both Phillips 66 and Teekay Shipping, the owner of the oil tanker Yamuna Spirit, were responsible for the spill. The Coast Guard said the substance found in San Pablo Bay matched the light Arabian crude the tanker was transferring to the refinery, though it was unable to determine how much oil was released into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/refinery-shipping-firm-dispute-finding-theyre-responsible-for-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">dispute\u003c/a> the Coast Guard findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard says its response and investigation cost the agency around $36,000. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, whose job it is to regulate sources of air pollution, said it investigated the odor. But the agency never compiled a report on its source, and its staff says they never even made written notes about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard announced in October that it had determined that crude oil detected in the waters of San Pablo Bay came from either a marine terminal at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo or a tanker that was unloading there. The agency has yet to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response says it has completed an investigation but is refusing to release its results. It also says it did not focus on finding the cause of the odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overpowering Odor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overpowering odor was first reported at 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 20, according to Joanna Altman, an assistant to Vallejo's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few hours residents complained to city officials that the odor, whatever its source, was causing headaches, sore throats, burning eyes, chest pain and nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Carle, who lives near the Carquinez Strait, was one of the residents sickened by the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden the air that was coming through windows was just about toxic,” Carle said. “I could feel that I was starting to get very congested in my lungs, which is not normal, and my head just started pounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the Baylink ferry Intintoli was sailing through waters near Vallejo and the Rodeo refinery when the crew reported \"a very pungent odor ... like bunker fuel.\" The report, recorded at 8 p.m. by the federal National Response Center, described the odor as \"unbearable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an \"unknown odor,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642658872569838\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo issued a shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> in the southern part of town, advising residents to stay indoors, turn off air-conditioning units and close windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642665665902492\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the order\u003c/a>, advising all residents to stay indoors \"until the source is determined.\" The city said that PG&E and public safety officials were working to determine the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two hours after the odor was first reported, city officials were told that Phillips 66 had shut down some of its operations but were not told why, Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:43 p.m., the city produced a video (below) in which Altman said emergency dispatchers had received 800 calls about the problem and that some residents were going to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JmUFScfqC_4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, the city sent out another message: \"Given the direction of the winds and investigation, it is likely that the source is not from Vallejo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following morning the shelter-in-place order was lifted and natural gas was eliminated as the source by hazardous materials crews, the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Fire Department will continue to investigate the root cause,\" said a reverse 911 call to residents, as well as two city of Vallejo press releases that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it appears the Fire Department investigation never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have very limited authority to investigate outside the boundaries of Vallejo and we have really very little ability to investigate this kind of thing,\" Fire Chief Jack McArthur said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Phillips 66 reopened its marine terminal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/phillips-66-refinery-in-rodeo-reopens-marine-terminal-as-oil-spill-investigation-continues/\" target=\"_blank\">the oil tanker tied to the spill\u003c/a> was allowed to leave San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Fails to Buy Promised Air-Monitoring Gear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after the apparent spill and resulting fumes, Chief McArthur, Mayor Bob Sampayan and City Manager Daniel Keen all told KQED that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">they wanted new air monitors\u003c/a> because the ones the city does have did not detect anything the night of the odor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan went further. He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/19/new-vallejo-mayor-wants-oil-industry-to-pay-for-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">called on the oil industry to pay for new monitors\u003c/a> in Vallejo and communities near the four major oil refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after the mysterious odor, the city has yet to buy new devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have identified the equipment we think will be most useful, but have not yet purchased it,\" Keen said in a recent email. \"This will be part of budget discussions we'll be having with the City Council shortly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still carrying this as a priority project,\" Sampayan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it was just recently that -- for the first time since the odor -- Vallejo city officials met with Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff to discuss the September mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Regulators: No Documentation on Vallejo Incident \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says it completed its investigation into the noxious fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air District reached the same conclusions as the lead agency (U.S. Coast Guard),\" district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said in a recent email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies were unable to determine the exact cause of the spill. In addition there was no conclusive determination for the cause of the odor in Vallejo,\" Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested a copy of the air district's report about the odor. But no report was ever written, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We only write a report when a violation of a district regulation is documented,\" Borrmann said. \"In this case there were no violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED then requested copies of all documents and email correspondence related to the air district's work on the odor and spill. But no such materials exist, district officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have spoken to our enforcement staff, and there are no documents or emails,\" wrote Rochelle Reed, an employee at the air district's public records office, in an email. \"The air district had a minor role, and staff consulted by phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coast Guard Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district is not the only agency that has failed to produce evidence of its inquiry into the Phillips 66 oil spill that apparently led to the Vallejo incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Coast Guard seeking documentation of its spill investigation beyond the summary it offered in an October press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release said the agency's inquiry determined both Phillips 66 and Teekay Shipping, the owner of the oil tanker Yamuna Spirit, were responsible for the spill. The Coast Guard said the substance found in San Pablo Bay matched the light Arabian crude the tanker was transferring to the refinery, though it was unable to determine how much oil was released into the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/refinery-shipping-firm-dispute-finding-theyre-responsible-for-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">dispute\u003c/a> the Coast Guard findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard says its response and investigation cost the agency around $36,000. 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"content": "\u003cp>Many Californians are still in disbelief that after five years of too little water during the drought, now the problem is too much water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy winter storms have done more than cause problems at Oroville Dam, where thousands of people were evacuated after erosion of a critical spillway. They’ve also stressed thousands of miles of levees and flood infrastructure downstream of the major dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say it’s a wake-up call because the state’s warming climate could mean more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downstream Stress\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With rivers running high, levee patrols have been on high alert for any sign of damage. Earlier this month, 60 feet of levee collapsed on Tyler Island, near the town of Walnut Grove in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our water system was really built in an old climate. It’s a climate that is no longer the climate of California.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A huge crane was brought in to dump rocks in the gash, in the hope of preventing the river from breaking through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every hour we work, we’re safer,” said Mello, a farmer on the island who anxiously watched every rock load. “We’re not out of the woods yet by a long shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby farms and homes would be underwater without the levee, as the island sits 17 feet below sea level at its lowest point. Mello watched the levee disintegrate in just 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s ‘New Climate’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford University. “It’s actually exactly what’s been predicted by scientists for at least 30 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1431485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1020x614.jpg\" alt=\"California's backlog of levee maintenance runs hundreds of millions of dollars. \" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1180x710.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-960x578.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-375x226.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-520x313.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s backlog of levee maintenance runs hundreds of millions of dollars. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diffenbaugh says while drought and floods aren’t new for California, climate change could make them both more extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s hot out, water is going to evaporate,” said Diffenbaugh. “And that’s what happens with soils. We’re getting more frequent occurrences of low precipitation leading to drought because the temperatures are higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During wet years, warmer temperatures will cause more precipitation to fall as rain instead of snow. The snowpack is also showing signs of melting earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contrary, California’s water system was designed a century ago, around having a predictable snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which acts like frozen reservoir, storing water until the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”1Ml3NikETEPKAYD1HkA1KCiMZpc4D7eJ”]California’s flood system can handle that slow melt, but isn’t really equipped for a huge amount of runoff all at once, Diffenbaugh says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our water system was really built in an old climate,” he says. “It’s a climate that is no longer the climate of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating Infrastructure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s dams have struggled to handle the influx of winter rain, some are calling for more water storage projects to be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly our water model isn’t working,” reads a \u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/opinion/editorials/article133907709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent editorial in the Modesto Bee\u003c/a>. “We need more dams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if dams are big enough to capture flood events, the channels below the dams may not be able to handle higher flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spillway on Don Pedro Dam near Modesto \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/17/another-california-dam-grapples-with-flood-danger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was opened \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/17/another-california-dam-grapples-with-flood-danger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently \u003c/a> for the first time in 20 years, to prevent the reservoir from overflowing. But the amount of water operators could release has been limited by the capacity of the river channel below it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1431486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1020x583.jpg\" alt=\"A dredge drops rock on Tyler Island.\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1020x583.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-768x439.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1180x675.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-960x549.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-520x297.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dredge drops rock on the Tyler Island levee. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This flood here has really tested us,” said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. “We’ve found we have quite a bit of levees to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams also aren’t the only option for storing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest source of water storage in California is groundwater and it always will be,” says Lund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been experimenting with diverting floodwater onto fields, where it can seep into aquifers that were drawn down dramatically during the recent drought. That could potentially allow reservoirs to leave more room in the winter to catch extreme runoff events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to move some of the storage to aquifers,” says Lund, “that should free up more storage in the reservoirs to capture that now bigger annual cycle of wet months.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge for improving California’s flood readiness has long been funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=2232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billions of dollars of flood control projects\u003c/a> and levee maintenance that’s needed, as part of its Central Valley Flood Protection Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the big holes in our water system is that we don’t have very good regular funding for flood control,” notes Lund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>When the first \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/14/photos-oroville-spillway-problems-evacuees-and-flooding/\">alarms went out\u003c/a> earlier this month that Oroville Dam’s emergency spillway might collapse, a “small city” sprang up almost overnight on the hillsides flanking the imperiled dam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wartime metaphors also came to mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is on the scale of a battlefield,” said Eric See, a public information officer with the state’s Department of Water Resources, who says he’s never seen anything like this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>See gave Cal Fire, the state agency more accustomed to tackling wildfires, much of the credit for the rapid mobilization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They came in and set up overnight,” says See, with everything from food trucks and generators, to telephone connections, to portable showers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431363\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431363\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328.jpg\" alt=\"A cacophony of heavy equipment and helicopters continues around the clock above Oroville Dam, just steps from surrounding homes.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6328-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cacophony of heavy equipment and helicopters continues around the clock above Oroville Dam, just steps from surrounding homes. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>All of this is supporting nearly 500 people on scene, including a hundred construction workers, give or take, who’ve been doing the grunt work 24-7 to make the critical repairs to the crippled spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a hillside staging area above the south end of Oroville dam, huge yellow dump trucks full of rocks rumble in with their loads, one right behind another, while in the air above, Blackhawk helicopters swoop in, lifting 4,000-pound bags of stone and gravel like raptors grabbing mice from a field. So rapid is the cycle of ferrying fill material across the dam to the spillway, that two helicopters often arrive for new loads within a minute of each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The helicopters are some of the same ones that spend summers dropping buckets of water on wildfires. The work is pretty similar, according to Evan Welsch, a mechanic with Red Bluff-based P.J. Helicopters, except now instead of water buckets, they’re hauling bags of gravel and sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-768x551.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The choppers have been placing those “super-sacks.” as they’re called, into huge gashes carved out when Oroville’s lake waters topped the emergency spillway two weeks ago, and tore down the earthen slope into the Feather River below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the bags have big rocks, some of ‘em have sand, some have gravel,” says Mike Starcher, whose quarry, Sierra Silica, has been supplying much of the material. “It just depends on where the geologists want to layer ‘em in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like See, Starcher, whose company has been part-owner of Sierra Silica for 15 years, also says he’s never seen anything like this deployment — 2000 bags and counting, just from his operation. And each one had to be filled and transported by workers who knew they could be risking their lives by remaining at quarries just down river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some tough folks in this town,” says Starcher. He shrugs off the scant amount of sleep he’s had, saying “there are guys out here who have gone 30 hours on end without any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431609\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1431609 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of them is Reggie Gaston, who was zipping around on a forklift, lining up sacks where choppers could snatch them up. When Gaston’s wife and four kids were evacuated to high ground, he stayed behind, knowing the work he was doing could save his town from catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, they were pretty worried,” he admits. “They wanted me to come home and I said, ‘I can’t.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gaston says there was no pressure to stay on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bosses were concerned,” he recalls. “They said family comes first, but if you feel like they’re safe, we can use some help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg\" alt=\"At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1920x1444.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1180x887.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-960x722.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-375x282.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the peak of the frenzy last week, crews were pouring fill material into the ravaged spillway at the rate of 40 truckloads an hour. Though 100,000 cubic yards of rock, sand and gravel had gone into shoring up the spillway by Tuesday evening of this week (picture 100,000 pickup trucks lined up), it’s a job that is still far from finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re fighting the winter, fighting the rain, fighting the water,” says Gaston. “Hopefully by summertime or spring the rain has died down enough and dam has dropped down enough where they can actually fix the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Starcher, he had to miss spending Valentines Day with his two girls, Claire and Catherine, whom he calls “Beeps.” So he took a can of red spray paint to two of the giant white bags of gravel and made them a valentine selfie; big red heart on one, their names on the other. His valentine will become part of the new, reinforced spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaston, who’s spent most of his 30 years as an Oroville resident, never thought the nearly 800-foot-high dam looming above them would end up menacing his family and neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not really,” he admits. “But I have to say it is a man-made item. Man-made items do fall—and they do fail.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Helicopters, except now instead of water buckets, they’re hauling bags of gravel and sand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431615\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431615\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-160x115.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-800x574.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-768x551.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1020x732.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-1180x846.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-960x689.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-240x172.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-375x269.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/RS24382_orovillestaging-qut-520x373.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blackhawk helicopters buzzed back and forth across the dam, carrying 4,000-pound sacks of rock and gravel. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The choppers have been placing those “super-sacks.” as they’re called, into huge gashes carved out when Oroville’s lake waters topped the emergency spillway two weeks ago, and tore down the earthen slope into the Feather River below.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the bags have big rocks, some of ‘em have sand, some have gravel,” says Mike Starcher, whose quarry, Sierra Silica, has been supplying much of the material. “It just depends on where the geologists want to layer ‘em in there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like See, Starcher, whose company has been part-owner of Sierra Silica for 15 years, also says he’s never seen anything like this deployment — 2000 bags and counting, just from his operation. And each one had to be filled and transported by workers who knew they could be risking their lives by remaining at quarries just down river.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some tough folks in this town,” says Starcher. He shrugs off the scant amount of sleep he’s had, saying “there are guys out here who have gone 30 hours on end without any.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431609\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1431609 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg\" alt=\"When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1020x765.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-1180x885.jpeg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-960x720.jpeg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-240x180.jpeg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-375x281.jpeg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6670-edited-520x390.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">When most people evacuated Oroville, Reggie Gaston stayed behind in the flood zone to work on repairing the spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of them is Reggie Gaston, who was zipping around on a forklift, lining up sacks where choppers could snatch them up. When Gaston’s wife and four kids were evacuated to high ground, he stayed behind, knowing the work he was doing could save his town from catastrophe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, they were pretty worried,” he admits. “They wanted me to come home and I said, ‘I can’t.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Gaston says there was no pressure to stay on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bosses were concerned,” he recalls. “They said family comes first, but if you feel like they’re safe, we can use some help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431360\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1431360\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg\" alt=\"At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1504\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-768x578.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1020x767.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1920x1444.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-1180x887.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-960x722.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-375x282.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/IMG_6321-520x391.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At one point, contractors were dumping 40 truckloads per hour into the eroded emergency spillway. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the peak of the frenzy last week, crews were pouring fill material into the ravaged spillway at the rate of 40 truckloads an hour. Though 100,000 cubic yards of rock, sand and gravel had gone into shoring up the spillway by Tuesday evening of this week (picture 100,000 pickup trucks lined up), it’s a job that is still far from finished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re fighting the winter, fighting the rain, fighting the water,” says Gaston. “Hopefully by summertime or spring the rain has died down enough and dam has dropped down enough where they can actually fix the problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Starcher, he had to miss spending Valentines Day with his two girls, Claire and Catherine, whom he calls “Beeps.” So he took a can of red spray paint to two of the giant white bags of gravel and made them a valentine selfie; big red heart on one, their names on the other. His valentine will become part of the new, reinforced spillway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaston, who’s spent most of his 30 years as an Oroville resident, never thought the nearly 800-foot-high dam looming above them would end up menacing his family and neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not really,” he admits. “But I have to say it is a man-made item. Man-made items do fall—and they do fail.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/2.24.17_Finance_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">invest more than $400 million\u003c/a> in flood control and emergency response. The governor's move on Friday comes after heavy storms damaged a spillway at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/12/photos-oroville-dam-spillway-trouble-and-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\">Oroville Dam\u003c/a> earlier this month, forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of this fiscal year, $50 million for immediate flood prevention will be redirected to the general fund. Brown is also requesting the Legislature approve spending more than $380 million from the \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)\" target=\"_blank\">water bond\u003c/a> voters approved in 2014. That money would go to various flood control projects over the coming two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says, overall, California has $187 billion worth of infrastructure needs that it must start addressing right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the roof is leaking, if you don’t fix it, it will cost more later. So yeah, it’s serious, but I wouldn’t panic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11332277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11332277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The damaged main Oroville Dam spillway next to the resultant severely eroded hillside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The damaged main Oroville Dam spillway next to the resultant severely eroded hillside. \u003ccite>(William Croyle/California Dept. of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/2.24.17_Infrastructure_Letters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter to President Trump\u003c/a> listing 10 high-priority infrastructure projects he hopes the White House can assist with. But Brown acknowledges the state's currently tense relationship with the administration presents some challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, I think, walk a very thoughtful line here seeking help that we need, but also calling attention to those things that we object to and fighting vigorously when required,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may have recently gotten a glimpse of what its contentious relationship with the federal government could cost the state. Last week, federal transportation officials said they're delaying a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/17/feds-delay-caltrain-electrification-money/\" target=\"_blank\">$647 million grant\u003c/a> that would have helped electrify Caltrain between San Jose and San Francisco. Brown called the project a no-brainer and questioned the motives behind the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're not for that, you're really not for infrastructure,\" he said. \"The only thing you can say for that is it's scoring political points by politicians that know better and should do better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to more spending for flood prevention, Brown also wants more detailed inspections of dam structures and legislation requiring emergency action plans for state-regulated dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration's Department of Finance estimates that damages from storms throughout the state in January and February, including the Oroville Dam, will cost California more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:55 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Most of the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes by flooding southeast of downtown San Jose have been allowed to go home, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city said Thursday morning that about 3,800 people from 1,100 residences are still under mandatory evacuation orders as crews work to pump water out of their inundated neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city announced that much of an area west and north of a mandatory evacuation zone north of Interstate 280 and west of U.S. 101 had escaped serious flooding, and residents there were allowed to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three areas remain evacuated — \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66354\" target=\"_blank\">see the city’s official map\u003c/a> — as authorities try to drain standing water left behind after Coyote Creek, swollen with floodwater spilling from Anderson Reservoir, overflowed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods include the neighborhood immediately surrounding William Street Park, just south of downtown; the Rock Springs area, where flooding first occurred Tuesday afternoon; and three mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road in north San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. Mitch Matlow said Tuesday afternoon. “In the history of San Jose, I don’t know if it’s been bigger, but this is probably in the top 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Seoung was among the residents rescued by fire crews. “At some parts of the street the water is as high as your waist, my waist,” Seoung said. “I’m 6 feet tall and my waist is about 30 inches off the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said Tuesday that officials suspect a breach of the creek’s bank caused the rapid flooding in Rock Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, there’s a source in the creek where there’s a significantly large amount of water that’s rushing in,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. 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"content": "\u003cp>An \"atmospheric river\" is a colorful term for a sinuous plume of moisture that travels up from the tropics — a single plume can carry more water than the Mississippi River at its mouth. But new research shows that atmospheric rivers are also among the most damaging weather systems around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmospheric rivers that soaked California this winter did some good — they ended an epic drought in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been a very active winter, atmospheric river-wise,\" reports Jeff Zimmerman of the National Weather Service. \"We've probably had 10 or more ... this winter.\" The norm is just a few; being a La Niña year, with cooler water in the eastern Pacific, was part of the reason for the abundance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11326937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/atmospheric-river-9Jan17.gif\" alt=\"atmospheric-river-9Jan17\" width=\"700\" height=\"508\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atmospheric rivers are famously wet. But atmospheric scientist \u003ca href=\"https://www.atmos.ucla.edu/people/faculty/duane-waliser\">Duane Waliser\u003c/a> has done some new research that shows they're also remarkably windy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waliser studied two decades of storms around the globe at mid-latitudes — that is, outside the tropics. When he focused on the very windiest — the top 2 percent — he found that \"atmospheric rivers are typically associated with 30 and even up to 50 percent of those very extreme cases.\" Atmospheric rivers were also responsible for almost that percentage of the very wettest storms, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the windiness was surprising. Waliser found that winds during an atmospheric river are typically twice the speed of the average storm. He says emergency responders need to know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only do [atmospheric rivers] come with this potential for flooding hazards,\" he says, \"they also come with potential for high-impact winds and extremes that can produce hazardous conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the atmospheric river that hit California on Jan. 8 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/508919216/iconic-sequoia-tunnel-tree-brought-down-by-california-storm\">knocked over a famous — and gigantic — sequoia\u003c/a> in a state park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11326939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85.png\" alt=\"1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waliser, who's with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California, says the combination of water and high wind is especially costly. Over the past two decades, for example, Europe experienced 19 storms that each did at least a billion dollars in damage. \"And so out of these 19 storms,\" he says, \"we associated atmospheric rivers with 14 out of the 19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waliser's research appears in the journal \u003cem>Nature Geoscience\u003c/em>. He says his next project is to find out if climate change will make atmospheric rivers more frequent.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Fire crews rescued five people who were stranded in flooding at a homeless encampment along a San Jose creek on Tuesday after a series of robust storms drenched Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the San Joaquin Valley, farmers used their tractors and other equipment to help shore up an endangered levee along the San Joaquin River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dramatic actions were prompted by the latest in a series of \"atmospheric rivers\" of moisture that have saturated the once-drought-stricken region in recent weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SJFD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SJFD\u003c/a> handling major flooding avoid the area Senter and Phelan \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/5nREMAUBZZ\">pic.twitter.com/5nREMAUBZZ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— San Jose Fire Dept. (@SJFD) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SJFD/status/834100691530428416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downpours swelled waterways to flood levels and left about half the state under flood, wind and snow advisories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm system began to weaken Tuesday after dumping more than a half-inch of rain in the San Joaquin Valley, over an inch in San Francisco, and more than 5 inches in the mountains above Big Sur in the past 24 hours, the National Weather Service reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry weather was expected to return Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Jose, the fire department was called to Coyote Creek amid reports of as many as 40 people being stranded at the homeless encampment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">San Jose broke a daily rainfall record yesterday(Feb 20). 1.87\" of rain fell, breaking the previous record of 0.98\" set in 1914! \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/cawx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cawx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/ksjc?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ksjc\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/834025019906854913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2017\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That number turned out to be inaccurate and everyone was located, fire Capt. 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