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Kip Tom, a farmer in Indiana who was a member of Trump's advisory committee on agricultural policy, recently told The Salt that this is a time to \"swing for the fences.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parke Wilde, an expert on food policy at Tufts University, told us in an email that shortly after the election, he had predicted that food policies would escape radical changes simply because they enjoyed a lower profile. He has changed his mind since, because \"every news report seems to show that the incoming administration plans to pursue 100 fights simultaneously. I have never seen that approach work in American politics previously. But, in these wild times, who knows?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here is a list of potential changes to watch for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Will the successful alliance of farmers and poverty advocates crumble?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Farm Bill, which funds both food stamps (now known as SNAP) and farm subsidies, is due to be renegotiated by the end of 2018. Some conservative Republicans probably will renew their efforts, previously unsuccessful, to scuttle the whole package, separating the farm-related provisions and the nutrition programs into separate bills. Many observers believe that this would leave each of them more vulnerable to attack. The political factions that have traditionally supported this bill, though, including farm groups and poverty advocates, are likely to mount a fierce counterattack. The stakes are high. SNAP, in particular, is one of the country's most important \"safety net\" programs for the poor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. School lunch reforms and nutrition standards may be under attack\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There could be attempts to roll back parts of the school lunch reforms ushered in during the Obama administration. Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, who has been a key player in pushing for healthier food in schools, told us that \"given the deregulatory, anti-science rhetoric during the [Trump] campaign, we are on high alert.\" She says Congress \"might try to rollback school meal standards or try to dismantle the National School Lunch Program\" by converting them into \"block grants\" that states could manage with only limited federal oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wootan says other nutrition policies at risk include new menu labeling rules. Federal standards requiring chain restaurants to list calories on menus or menu boards are set to go into effect in 2017. Those rules were mandated by the Affordable Care Act. But Wootan says she's concerned that changes being considered by the incoming administration could \"weaken the provision of information to consumers.\" And she says the Dietary Guidelines for Americans that were updated this year and serve as the basis for national nutrition programs \"could be part of anti-science efforts\" during the Trump administration. The guidelines are set to be updated again in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Will the administration compromise on farmworkers?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hostility to illegal immigration was central to Trump's campaign. But farm groups, many of them bedrock supporters of the Republican Party, are adamantly opposed to any wholesale deportation of immigrants who aren't in the country legally. Many large-scale dairy farmers, and growers of fruits and vegetables, rely heavily on immigrant labor. This promises to be a delicate backroom negotiation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Environmental regulations. 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It pointed out in an email to its supporters that \"If Scott Pruitt is confirmed as EPA head ... it is clear he will severely weaken the EPA's power.\" The Sierra Club email continues: \"the fate of bees — and all the crops and ecosystems that depend on them — may come down to a standoff between the Trump administration and science itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Will political inertia trump Trump?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ferd Hoefner is one of the true veterans of Washington's food policy community. He has been part of these debates for almost four decades and has been policy director of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which represents small farmers, for 28 years. And Hoefner, in contrast to every other policy advocate and lobbyist whom we contacted, believes that the Trump administration may choose to continue some pieces of\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>Obama's legacy in food and farm policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Take the environment, he says. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A Contra Costa County supervisor wants to find a way to close the Richmond auto-wrecking yard where some 200 vehicles burned in a smoky, attention-getting fire last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/16/massive-richmond-auto-yard-fire-triggers-shelter-in-place-order/\">blaze\u003c/a> sent up a huge plume of black smoke for several hours, leading to a shelter-in-place order for local residents and schools. The smoke also prompted an investigation by local air regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor John Gioia, who represents the unincorporated area where the fire broke out, was among those caught in the smoke and had to stay indoors at one of the nearly 30 schools under the temporary shelter order. The property is located at Gertrude Avenue and Richmond Parkway, close to Chevron's Richmond refinery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wants county building officials to investigate the property and the business, Deal Auto Wrecking, with the hope that it would be shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been here a while and it would be better for the community for this facility not to be here,\" Gioia said in an interview. “This fire could form the basis of establishing that this facility is a nuisance in many ways. Frankly, it’s a land use that we would like to see go away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robert Marshall, fire marshal with the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, said the site was inspected last March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors found violations of regulations that govern how oil should be stored and noted that access to the cars through the lot's aisles was partially blocked, Marshall said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a follow-up inspection two months later, the violations had been corrected, Marshall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County health officials inspected the site in April 2015, according to Randy Sawyer, the chief environmental health and hazardous materials officer for the county's health service department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inspection found that the business was not reporting all of its hazardous materials, it was behind on employee training and there were problems with the labeling on some of its containers. All of those violations were corrected by the time a follow-up inspection took place three months later, Sawyer said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer also said his agency got several complaints associated with the business in the spring of 2015. The complaints alleged cars on the lot were leaking and spilling oil and gasoline onto the ground. But inspectors could not confirm those problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer added that on another inspection, officials found that some of the soil on the site was contaminated with oil. It had been removed and cleaned up, but water from storm runoff in the area had exceeded levels of copper and zinc. Deal Auto Wrecking implemented a plan to correct those problems, Sawyer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The owner of the land that burned is Chen Long Inc., according to property records. The site is licensed with the state as a metal recycling business. Efforts to reach Jian Song, the longtime owner of the business that operates the yard, were unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire officials have not released the official cause of last week's blaze but it appears to be accidental, according to Marshall. The fire seems to have started in one car and spread to many others, thanks in part to strong winds, he said.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The incoming mayor of Vallejo is calling on oil companies to foot the bill for new air monitors in five Bay Area cities that sit near local refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor-elect Bob Sampayan wants the fossil fuel industry to pay for new devices in his city, Benicia, Martinez, Rodeo and Crockett -- communities near the Valero, Shell, Tesoro and Phillips 66 facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan's request was prompted by a mysterious odor that sickened dozens of Vallejo residents around the same time an oil spill was discovered in San Pablo Bay in September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's incumbent upon all the petroleum industries that are here ... to provide that kind of good-neighbor help to the surrounding communities,\" Sampayan, who sits on the Vallejo City Council, said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"sRoXUtZCuVxsf1kTjnBCydIAo8ZQzuwY\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to see a more expanded role with the oil companies in providing information should we have this kind of incident occur again,\" Sampayan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His comments come after Vallejo City Manager Daniel Keen said the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">city is considering buying a new set of air monitoring devices\u003c/a> because the ones they do have did not pick up any measurements from the odor that prompted hundreds of calls to Vallejo dispatchers on Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Coast Guard's \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/21/refinery-shipping-firm-dispute-finding-theyre-responsible-for-oil-spill/\" target=\"_blank\">investigation \u003c/a>into the oil spill concluded that the spill came from either the Phillips 66 refinery marine terminal in Rodeo or an oil tanker that was unloading crude there. But it came up empty on what caused the sickening odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think as a good neighbor, Conoco Phillips 66 should be concerned about providing air quality monitors to the surrounding communities,\" Sampayan said. \"I want to see a more expanded role with the oil companies in providing information should we have this kind of incident occur again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for Phillips 66 did not respond to a request for comment, and a representative for the Western State Petroleum Association said the industry group has no comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other local refineries, Phillips 66 pays for fence-line and ground-level air monitors at its Rodeo facility. The company's fence-line program is managed by a third party, Argos Scientific, an environmental and natural resource company. You can see their data \u003ca href=\"http://www.fenceline.org/rodeo/data.php\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District operates air monitors throughout the region that are paid for by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency and the district's general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with the four mobile air monitors that the Vallejo Fire Department uses, the air district has a stationary monitor in the city, but none of them detected anything odd as the sickening odor moved through the city on Sept. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fire Department's monitors did not pick up any abnormal measurements that day, according to Fire Chief Jack McArthur. And there were no air quality violations based on readings from the air district's ground-level monitoring device in Vallejo, district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Vallejo city officials have yet to meet members of the air quality district close to three months after the incident. The two sides are still coordinating schedules to get that meeting set, according to Vallejo City Manager Daniel Keen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan is still waiting for answers from air regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I want to hear directly from them as to why they did not receive any unusual air quality readings ... when it was overwhelmingly terrible to breathe that, whatever it was, that was coming from the straits,\" Sampayan said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:25 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The drying out starts ... now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that swamped the Bay Area and prompted flash flood warnings, inundated roads and triggered rock and mud slides from Sonoma County into Monterey County has moved south. After a few showers late Thursday and early Friday, the region is in for what appears to be at least a week of non-rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The torrents of rain -- which brought anywhere from an inch to nearly 3 inches of rain in most valley and bayside locations while soaking hills and ridges with between 5 and 7 inches since the storm's onset late Wednesday -- caused rapid rises on the Russian and Napa rivers and brought both streams to near flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, several creeks briefly surged past flood stage, prompting warnings and an evacuation of downtown San Anselmo. Creeks also rose out of their banks in several locations in Santa Rosa and Petaluma in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gusty winds buffeted the region's higher terrain most of the day. The National Weather Service reported gusts hitting 50 mph or more in every Bay Area county except San Francisco, which recorded gusts in the 30-mph range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain and high winds caused the cancellation of about 90 flights into and out of San Francisco International Airport. Oakland and San Jose airports reported no cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm leaves most of Northern California well above normal for rainfall this season. North State reservoirs are showing the effects of our copious fall rains, with virtually every major reservoir at levels that are well above average for mid-December. We'll offer some of that data on Friday\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The departing storm will be followed by an extended period of dry -- and initially cold -- weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lows in some of the Bay Area valleys could fall into the 20s over the weekend. Highs will range from the upper 40s to the low 50s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/images/precipMaps/sf_24HRprecip.png?random=207889856\" width=\"620\" height=\"806\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> If you've been out on the road or looking out a window anywhere in the vicinity of San Francisco, you know it's raining. If you've been confined to an isolation tank, let us provide some details about the outdoor proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain that weather models forecast would pound the Bay Area has arrived in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties with a vengeance and is continuing its very slow progress to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 1 p.m., the continuing deluge prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning for southeastern Sonoma and northern Marin counties. Specifics about the warned areas, per the weather service:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Automated stream gauges have reported water levels rising above flood stage on Willow Brook in Penngrove Park in Petaluma, Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente, Copeland Creek in Rohnert Park, Colgan Creek near Sebastopol, and other creeks in the lower Laguna de Santa Rosa west of the city of Santa Rosa. There have also been reports of flooding in other lowland valley settings in southern Sonoma County and northern Marin County, as well as roadway flooding.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a look at the current weather radar, by way of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/ca/san-francisco/mux/?lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San%20Francisco%2c%20CA\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Underground\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MUX&brand=wui&num=10&delay=25&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&mapx=400&mapy=240%C2%A2erx=400%C2%A2ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0&rand=24697214&lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rough key to the colors on the map: green means rain is falling; yellow means rain is pounding down; orange means you're wondering where you left your hip waders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP is reporting numerous instances of flooded highways and freeways, including Interstate 80 in San Francisco at the split with U.S. 101, at several places on 101 in Marin County and in southern Sonoma County at the junction of Highways 37 and 121. The CHP also reported dozens of traffic collisions related to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we said earlier, the usual wet locations in northern Sonoma County got a good soaking earlier in the day, with Venado (\"The Deer\"), west of Healdsburg, recording 4.40 inches of rain between midnight and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals closer to the Golden Gate have risen sharply as the storm system trundles south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County's Charles M. Schulz Airport had gotten 1.60 inches in the six hours ending at noon. A host of rain gauges in the Petaluma area all showed an inch or more in the same period. Kentfield, on the northeastern flank of Mount Tamalpais, picked up 1.26 inches, including a startling .75 between 11 a.m. and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals quickly drop to the south, with just .18 of an inch recorded at San Francisco International Airport, .08 in downtown San Francisco, and .01 at Oakland International and San Jose International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz Mountains had also gotten a decent shot of rain by midday, with a gauge in the community of Ben Lomond recording .79 of an inch. Soquel, at the foot of the hills east of Santa Cruz, picked up .91.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The copious North Bay precipitation prompted the National Weather Service to issue an urban and small stream flood \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ507&warncounty=CAC041&firewxzone=CAZ507&local_place1=3%20Miles%20NW%20Woodacre%20CA&product1=Flood+Advisory&lat=38.0323&lon=-122.6751#.WFL_96IrKYV\" target=\"_blank\">advisory\u003c/a> through 4:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has prompted a series of high-water advisories from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center. Rivers expected to reach flood state include the Navarro, in Mendocino County, and the lower reaches of the Eel, south of Eureka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center said the Russian River at Guerneville will see a steep rise from its current level of 9 feet to 30.7 feet by midday Friday. That will exceed the river's monitor stage -- the level at which forecasters urge nearby residents and authorities to take action to protect property -- but only minor flooding is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> A wet, windy storm continues to crawl down the coast north of San Francisco early Thursday, carrying what forecasters promise will be one of our most intense dousings of the rainy season so far and terrible travel conditions throughout much of the afternoon and evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, fed by a relatively rich plume of water vapor originating near the Hawaiian Islands, has been focused for the past day or so on the coast of Northern California and Oregon, where it has dumped torrents of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is also expected to bring lots of rain -- and some snow -- in the Sierra. Heavy rain in the mountains above Yosemite is expected to trigger a rapid rise on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, possibly closing roads in Yosemite Valley late Thursday and Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late Wednesday into early Thursday, the heavy rain had made its way as far south as northern Sonoma County. Venado, the famously wet hillside location west of Healdsburg, got 4.60 inches between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday. More sheltered sites, like Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport just outside Santa Rosa, got just .29 of an inch during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11221223\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg\" alt=\"Infrared image from NOAA's GOES West satellite shows storm hitting California coast Thursday morning.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infrared image from NOAA's GOES West satellite shows storm hitting California coast Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says the heaviest rain is expected to reach the Golden Gate by noon, and the storm will move slowly south, sweeping through the Santa Clara Valley late in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for a transportation mess moved one National Weather Service forecaster to write Wednesday, \"The main front will work its way through the heart of the Bay Area during the afternoon and evening hours of Thursday setting the stage for a horrendous afternoon commute. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Horrendous.\" Not a word you see much in NWS communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service forecasts the storm, which had reached central Sonoma County in time for the morning commute, would bring between 1 to 2 inches of rain to most bayside and valley locations by midnight. Coastal hills and mountains will see a lot more rain -- 5 inches or more, the NWS says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the story on the rain. The storm is expected to be very windy, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters have issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=wind%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">a wind advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area warning of sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts of 50 mph in higher terrain late Thursday afternoon until late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predicted deluge, which coincides with unusually high tides, also threatens widespread flooding of roadways near the bay, including U.S. 101 in Marin and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain has triggered rapid rises on both small coastal rivers that are quick to rise and fall and on Northern California's mother river, the Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center is forecasting brief flooding on the Navarro River in Mendocino County and the Eel in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center forecasts high water at several locations on the Sacramento between Red Bluff and the state capital. The rising river will flow into bypass channels created to ease pressure on the river's levee system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain totals for the 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Thursday ranged from 5 to nearly 7 inches in the wettest locations of northwestern California, including 6.80 inches at Honeydew and 6.34 at Cooskie Mountain in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain is forecast to end in most Bay Area locations by early Friday, to be followed by colder and clearing weather. Lows in some of the region's valley locations could fall into the 20s over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outlook for the coming week, forecasters say, is dry.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:25 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The drying out starts ... now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that swamped the Bay Area and prompted flash flood warnings, inundated roads and triggered rock and mud slides from Sonoma County into Monterey County has moved south. After a few showers late Thursday and early Friday, the region is in for what appears to be at least a week of non-rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The torrents of rain -- which brought anywhere from an inch to nearly 3 inches of rain in most valley and bayside locations while soaking hills and ridges with between 5 and 7 inches since the storm's onset late Wednesday -- caused rapid rises on the Russian and Napa rivers and brought both streams to near flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, several creeks briefly surged past flood stage, prompting warnings and an evacuation of downtown San Anselmo. Creeks also rose out of their banks in several locations in Santa Rosa and Petaluma in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gusty winds buffeted the region's higher terrain most of the day. The National Weather Service reported gusts hitting 50 mph or more in every Bay Area county except San Francisco, which recorded gusts in the 30-mph range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain and high winds caused the cancellation of about 90 flights into and out of San Francisco International Airport. Oakland and San Jose airports reported no cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm leaves most of Northern California well above normal for rainfall this season. North State reservoirs are showing the effects of our copious fall rains, with virtually every major reservoir at levels that are well above average for mid-December. We'll offer some of that data on Friday\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The departing storm will be followed by an extended period of dry -- and initially cold -- weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lows in some of the Bay Area valleys could fall into the 20s over the weekend. Highs will range from the upper 40s to the low 50s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/images/precipMaps/sf_24HRprecip.png?random=207889856\" width=\"620\" height=\"806\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> If you've been out on the road or looking out a window anywhere in the vicinity of San Francisco, you know it's raining. If you've been confined to an isolation tank, let us provide some details about the outdoor proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain that weather models forecast would pound the Bay Area has arrived in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties with a vengeance and is continuing its very slow progress to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 1 p.m., the continuing deluge prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning for southeastern Sonoma and northern Marin counties. Specifics about the warned areas, per the weather service:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Automated stream gauges have reported water levels rising above flood stage on Willow Brook in Penngrove Park in Petaluma, Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente, Copeland Creek in Rohnert Park, Colgan Creek near Sebastopol, and other creeks in the lower Laguna de Santa Rosa west of the city of Santa Rosa. There have also been reports of flooding in other lowland valley settings in southern Sonoma County and northern Marin County, as well as roadway flooding.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a look at the current weather radar, by way of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/ca/san-francisco/mux/?lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San%20Francisco%2c%20CA\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Underground\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MUX&brand=wui&num=10&delay=25&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&mapx=400&mapy=240%C2%A2erx=400%C2%A2ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0&rand=24697214&lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rough key to the colors on the map: green means rain is falling; yellow means rain is pounding down; orange means you're wondering where you left your hip waders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP is reporting numerous instances of flooded highways and freeways, including Interstate 80 in San Francisco at the split with U.S. 101, at several places on 101 in Marin County and in southern Sonoma County at the junction of Highways 37 and 121. The CHP also reported dozens of traffic collisions related to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we said earlier, the usual wet locations in northern Sonoma County got a good soaking earlier in the day, with Venado (\"The Deer\"), west of Healdsburg, recording 4.40 inches of rain between midnight and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals closer to the Golden Gate have risen sharply as the storm system trundles south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County's Charles M. Schulz Airport had gotten 1.60 inches in the six hours ending at noon. A host of rain gauges in the Petaluma area all showed an inch or more in the same period. Kentfield, on the northeastern flank of Mount Tamalpais, picked up 1.26 inches, including a startling .75 between 11 a.m. and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals quickly drop to the south, with just .18 of an inch recorded at San Francisco International Airport, .08 in downtown San Francisco, and .01 at Oakland International and San Jose International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz Mountains had also gotten a decent shot of rain by midday, with a gauge in the community of Ben Lomond recording .79 of an inch. Soquel, at the foot of the hills east of Santa Cruz, picked up .91.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The copious North Bay precipitation prompted the National Weather Service to issue an urban and small stream flood \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ507&warncounty=CAC041&firewxzone=CAZ507&local_place1=3%20Miles%20NW%20Woodacre%20CA&product1=Flood+Advisory&lat=38.0323&lon=-122.6751#.WFL_96IrKYV\" target=\"_blank\">advisory\u003c/a> through 4:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has prompted a series of high-water advisories from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center. Rivers expected to reach flood state include the Navarro, in Mendocino County, and the lower reaches of the Eel, south of Eureka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center said the Russian River at Guerneville will see a steep rise from its current level of 9 feet to 30.7 feet by midday Friday. That will exceed the river's monitor stage -- the level at which forecasters urge nearby residents and authorities to take action to protect property -- but only minor flooding is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> A wet, windy storm continues to crawl down the coast north of San Francisco early Thursday, carrying what forecasters promise will be one of our most intense dousings of the rainy season so far and terrible travel conditions throughout much of the afternoon and evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, fed by a relatively rich plume of water vapor originating near the Hawaiian Islands, has been focused for the past day or so on the coast of Northern California and Oregon, where it has dumped torrents of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is also expected to bring lots of rain -- and some snow -- in the Sierra. Heavy rain in the mountains above Yosemite is expected to trigger a rapid rise on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, possibly closing roads in Yosemite Valley late Thursday and Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late Wednesday into early Thursday, the heavy rain had made its way as far south as northern Sonoma County. Venado, the famously wet hillside location west of Healdsburg, got 4.60 inches between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday. More sheltered sites, like Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport just outside Santa Rosa, got just .29 of an inch during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11221223\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg\" alt=\"Infrared image from NOAA's GOES West satellite shows storm hitting California coast Thursday morning.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infrared image from NOAA's GOES West satellite shows storm hitting California coast Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says the heaviest rain is expected to reach the Golden Gate by noon, and the storm will move slowly south, sweeping through the Santa Clara Valley late in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for a transportation mess moved one National Weather Service forecaster to write Wednesday, \"The main front will work its way through the heart of the Bay Area during the afternoon and evening hours of Thursday setting the stage for a horrendous afternoon commute. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Horrendous.\" Not a word you see much in NWS communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service forecasts the storm, which had reached central Sonoma County in time for the morning commute, would bring between 1 to 2 inches of rain to most bayside and valley locations by midnight. Coastal hills and mountains will see a lot more rain -- 5 inches or more, the NWS says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the story on the rain. The storm is expected to be very windy, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters have issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=wind%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">a wind advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area warning of sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts of 50 mph in higher terrain late Thursday afternoon until late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predicted deluge, which coincides with unusually high tides, also threatens widespread flooding of roadways near the bay, including U.S. 101 in Marin and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain has triggered rapid rises on both small coastal rivers that are quick to rise and fall and on Northern California's mother river, the Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center is forecasting brief flooding on the Navarro River in Mendocino County and the Eel in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center forecasts high water at several locations on the Sacramento between Red Bluff and the state capital. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Take a trip to Recology’s Recycle Central, where San Francisco’s waste is sorted and sent off for processing. This week on\u003c/em>\u003cem> \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/series/baycurious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bay Curious\u003c/a>, we answer a question from Noe Valley resident Charlie Spiegel, who wondered where his recycling ends up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]C[/dropcap]harlie Spiegel is one of those people obsessed with getting recycling right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like the peanut butter canister. If I throw this into the recycling — this plastic thing that’s got peanut butter in it — I have no idea what they do with it,” he says, as he stands in the kitchen of his Noe Valley home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s pulling empty glass and plastic containers out of his dishwasher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you really wash these things?” I ask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh yeah, yeah,” he says. “And then they come out melted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Charlie has \u003cem>a lot\u003c/em> of questions when it comes to recycling. Like what happens to stuff that can’t be recycled that gets mixed up in the blue bins? Does he need to continue washing his plastics and jars? 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He takes me to an open room called the tipping floor, where the recycling trucks first dump their contents after they leave your neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55yXRsIX30A\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plastic water bottles, cardboard Amazon boxes, plastic bags and soup containers are corralled by tractors into colossal 30-foot mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six hundred tons of material come through the tipping floor each day, says Robert. That’s equivalent to the weight of 38 Muni buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I bring up Charlie’s first question: Do people need to rinse their recyclables?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Definitely don’t recycle:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Plastic Bags:\u003c/strong> They clog up Recology’s machines so toss them in the trash.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wire Coat Hangers:\u003c/strong> These also damage the machines, so throw them out.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Greasy pizza boxes:\u003c/strong> The greasy bottom is compostable, the clean top can be recycled.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Styrofoam:\u003c/strong> This isn’t recyclable anywhere so make sure it ends up in the garbage.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>He says a \u003cem>half-full\u003c/em> jar of peanut butter would be too much, but their equipment is prepared to handle some residue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Recology does ask people to \u003ca href=\"https://www.recology.com/faq/do-i-have-to-rinse-jars-bottles-and-cans/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rinse out\u003c/a> their plastics because it can pose a problem for \u003cem>paper\u003c/em> products in single-stream recycling. 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He takes me to an open room called the tipping floor, where the recycling trucks first dump their contents after they leave your neighborhood.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/55yXRsIX30A'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/55yXRsIX30A'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Plastic water bottles, cardboard Amazon boxes, plastic bags and soup containers are corralled by tractors into colossal 30-foot mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six hundred tons of material come through the tipping floor each day, says Robert. 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