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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Wind and rain continues to hammer much of the Bay Area as the workday comes to a close. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco,+CA/@37.6744926,-122.1619478,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!5m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\">Google Traffic\u003c/a> is showing several incidents snarling traffic on I-80, I-580 and 101 southbound. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide-ranging \u003ca href=\"http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=CA125395E0A22C.WindAdvisory.125395F00280CA.MTRNPWMTR.ac23c87a9869a88d6db273ff0148cb07\" target=\"_blank\">wind advisory\u003c/a> is expected to last until 4 a.m. Saturday, with sustained winds of 25 to 40 mph and gusts up to 60 mph possible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far rainfall totals are modest, many areas receiving less than an inch. Forecasters say that as much as 10 inches could fall on parts of Sonoma and Napa counties before the storm is over. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24-hour Rainfall totals: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Location\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Rainfall (inches)\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Venado \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6.72\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mount Saint Helena \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3.47\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Point Reyes Station \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Santa Rosa \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.35\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Napa Airport \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.66\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Richmond \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.64\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Jose \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mill Valley \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.43\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.26\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>SFO \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.23\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oakland \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.23\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hayward\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.18\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>The slower-than-expected start to the storm was a good sign to Healdsburg Public Works Director Brent Salmi, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3490198-181/wet-windy-storm-moves-into\" target=\"_blank\">told The Press Democrat\u003c/a> that despite flooding fears, water remained at manageable levels. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As long as it keeps raining the way it is, there’s probably no issue,” Salmi said. “The rain kind of ebbs and flows, and none of it has been terribly heavy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River was expected to remain well within its banks through Monday. Only the Navarro River in Mendocino County was at risk of overflowing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The leading edge of a windy storm that hit the North Bay this morning has spread throughout the rest of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=CA125395E0A22C.WindAdvisory.125395F00280CA.MTRNPWMTR.ac23c87a9869a88d6db273ff0148cb07\" target=\"_blank\">wind advisory\u003c/a> remains in effect throughout the region, as well as a flash flood watch in Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Storm at a Glance\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rain:\u003c/strong> Rain moved a little more slowly over the North Bay than forecast. A \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a> is in effect for all of Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties through early Saturday morning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wind:\u003c/strong> Sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph are expected throughout the Bay Area, with gusts as high as 50 mph near the coast and 60 mph at higher elevations. Highest winds are expected Friday afternoon, and a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ006&warncounty=CAC075&firewxzone=CAZ006&local_place1=3%20Miles%20NNW%20Brisbane%20CA&product1=Wind+Advisory&lat=37.7242&lon=-122.4143#.VNReZLBE6c8\" target=\"_blank\">wind advisory\u003c/a> is in effect for the entire region through 4 a.m. Saturday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Power:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E outage reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Highways:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx\">CHP traffic incident page.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Transit:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n--See \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBARTalert\" target=\"_blank\">@SFBARTalert\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003cbr>\n--See \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">Muni updates\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cstrong>Ferries:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscobayferry.com/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bay Ferry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://goldengateferry.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate Ferry\u003c/a> information.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cstrong>Other Bay Area transit information\u003c/strong> via \u003ca href=\"http://www.511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Airport impacts:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://www.flysfo.com/flight-info/flight-status\" target=\"_blank\">SFO Flight Status page\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services said we've got a \"juicy band of rain\" on our hands, even though it's taken awhile to spread south. In the North Bay, rainfall totals are beginning to mount, with Venado, a very rainy hilltop site west of Healdsburg, soaking up more than 5 inches as of 1:30 p.m. In other parts of north Sonoma County, more than 2 inches have collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we've had a dry period and we're sort of bumping that high pressure out of the way, things tend to go a little slower,\" Null said. \"But now, things seem to be going fairly well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds have been strong at higher elevations -- the heaviest gust was 58 mph in Los Gatos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 12 p.m. in the Bay Area, the power went out at about 24,540 households, and 15,710 of those residences have been restored, PG&E said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also dozens of reports of lightning strikes near Sacramento, and at least one near San Francisco's Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426163\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10426163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Bay Area is expecting a windy storm early in February. 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(Anya Schultz/KQED) \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service expects the afternoon commute to be a wet one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews in Sonoma County have prepared for minor flooding but nothing like the damage from a stronger system back in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The wind is really the one that we worry about in the coastal areas, and especially in the higher regions of the mountainous areas,\" said Ursula Hanks, coordinator of Marin County's Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters expect about 2 to 4 inches of rain in urban areas -- much more on the Sonoma coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426166\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10426166\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rain began to fall Friday morning in San Francisco's Mission District. 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He said delays are about 60 to 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays are occurring to both inbound and outbound flights, but Walsh said most of the delays are to arrivals. A delay program at the airport went into effect at 9 a.m. today and will be in effect until 10 p.m., Walsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at Oakland International Airport are reporting one canceled flight today because of the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin Independent Journal is \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_27466281/live-updates-marinstorm-hits-county\" target=\"_blank\">live blogging the storm here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Our message to that incoming Pacific storm: Hey, we'll put up with a lot, but we expect you to show up \u003cem>on time\u003c/em>, man. And you are officially late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes: We bought into all the flash flood watches and the talk of 10 inches of rain out there somewhere in the hills north and south of the bay. Starting up there in Sonoma County by midnight. But as dawn dawns, there's been barely enough water coming out of the sky to wet the bottom of a rain gauge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what gives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, if you go far enough north -- close to the Sonoma-Mendocino County line -- it has been raining overnight, though hardly in torrents. Cloverdale, at the northern edge of Sonoma, got .48 of an inch between midnight and 6 a.m.; Venado, a very rainy hilltop site west of Healdsburg, also in Sonoma County, has gotten .64, and Santa Rosa .05. Closer to the central Bay Area, several Marin locations, including the village of Olema near Point Reyes, have reported .01 of an inch since midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much farther up the coast -- in northern Mendocino and Humboldt counties -- there's been lots of rain. Honeydew, a hamlet on the Mattole River in southern Humboldt, has gotten about 7 inches of ran in the past 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area, the National Weather Service is now saying we should expect rain in the central Bay Area by this afternoon. A flash flood watch for North Bay counties, originally set to expire at 10 p.m. Friday, has been extended to 6 a.m. Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An advisory for winds between 25-35 mph with gusts up to 60 on peaks and ridgetops is in place through 4 a.m. Saturday. Highest wind gusts reported so far have been 56 mph on Mount Diablo and 49 mph at Point Reyes. Caltrans has posted a high-wind advisory for drivers on the Bay Bridge throughout the day Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post:\u003c/strong> Watching the \u003ca href=\"http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mux&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service online radarscope\u003c/a> Thursday night after six weeks of midwinter dry weather, you can see there's rain out there offshore. But it has seemed to crawl toward the coast all evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of 10:30 p.m. Thursday, we've got the first reports of rain in the nine-county Bay Area: four-hundredths of an inch of rain in the Sonoma County town of Cloverdale, on the border of Mendocino County. The Middle Peak rain gauge on Mount Tamalpais has recorded one-hundredth of an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's a modest beginning for a pair of storms expected to bring up to 10 inches of rain to the highlands of the North Bay, up to half a foot to the Santa Cruz Mountains, and between an inch and 4 inches of rain to the San Francisco Bay shore and nearby valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is also expected to be a blustery one, with sustained winds of 20 to 35 mph and gusts that could hit 60 mph on Bay Area peaks and ridgetops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm arrives after a history-making January -- the first time no rain was recorded during the first month of the year since record keeping began in the winter of 1849-50.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Wind and rain continues to hammer much of the Bay Area as the workday comes to a close. \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/maps/place/San+Francisco,+CA/@37.6744926,-122.1619478,10z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80859a6d00690021:0x4a501367f076adff!5m1!1e1\" target=\"_blank\">Google Traffic\u003c/a> is showing several incidents snarling traffic on I-80, I-580 and 101 southbound. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wide-ranging \u003ca href=\"http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=CA125395E0A22C.WindAdvisory.125395F00280CA.MTRNPWMTR.ac23c87a9869a88d6db273ff0148cb07\" target=\"_blank\">wind advisory\u003c/a> is expected to last until 4 a.m. Saturday, with sustained winds of 25 to 40 mph and gusts up to 60 mph possible. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far rainfall totals are modest, many areas receiving less than an inch. Forecasters say that as much as 10 inches could fall on parts of Sonoma and Napa counties before the storm is over. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>24-hour Rainfall totals: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Location\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Rainfall (inches)\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Venado \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>6.72\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mount Saint Helena \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3.47\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Point Reyes Station \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Santa Rosa \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.35\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Napa Airport \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.66\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Richmond \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.64\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Jose \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.5\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mill Valley \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.43\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.26\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>SFO \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.23\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oakland \u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.23\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hayward\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.18\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>The slower-than-expected start to the storm was a good sign to Healdsburg Public Works Director Brent Salmi, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/3490198-181/wet-windy-storm-moves-into\" target=\"_blank\">told The Press Democrat\u003c/a> that despite flooding fears, water remained at manageable levels. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>“As long as it keeps raining the way it is, there’s probably no issue,” Salmi said. “The rain kind of ebbs and flows, and none of it has been terribly heavy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River was expected to remain well within its banks through Monday. Only the Navarro River in Mendocino County was at risk of overflowing.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m.:\u003c/strong> The leading edge of a windy storm that hit the North Bay this morning has spread throughout the rest of the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://alerts.weather.gov/cap/wwacapget.php?x=CA125395E0A22C.WindAdvisory.125395F00280CA.MTRNPWMTR.ac23c87a9869a88d6db273ff0148cb07\" target=\"_blank\">wind advisory\u003c/a> remains in effect throughout the region, as well as a flash flood watch in Marin, Napa and Sonoma counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Storm at a Glance\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rain:\u003c/strong> Rain moved a little more slowly over the North Bay than forecast. A \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a> is in effect for all of Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties through early Saturday morning.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wind:\u003c/strong> Sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph are expected throughout the Bay Area, with gusts as high as 50 mph near the coast and 60 mph at higher elevations. Highest winds are expected Friday afternoon, and a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ006&warncounty=CAC075&firewxzone=CAZ006&local_place1=3%20Miles%20NNW%20Brisbane%20CA&product1=Wind+Advisory&lat=37.7242&lon=-122.4143#.VNReZLBE6c8\" target=\"_blank\">wind advisory\u003c/a> is in effect for the entire region through 4 a.m. Saturday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Power:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E outage reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Highways:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://cad.chp.ca.gov/Traffic.aspx\">CHP traffic incident page.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Transit:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n--See \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBARTalert\" target=\"_blank\">@SFBARTalert\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003cbr>\n--See \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">Muni updates\u003c/a> on Twitter.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cstrong>Ferries:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://sanfranciscobayferry.com/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Bay Ferry\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://goldengateferry.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Golden Gate Ferry\u003c/a> information.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cstrong>Other Bay Area transit information\u003c/strong> via \u003ca href=\"http://www.511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Airport impacts:\u003c/strong> See \u003ca href=\"http://www.flysfo.com/flight-info/flight-status\" target=\"_blank\">SFO Flight Status page\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Jan Null of Golden Gate Weather Services said we've got a \"juicy band of rain\" on our hands, even though it's taken awhile to spread south. In the North Bay, rainfall totals are beginning to mount, with Venado, a very rainy hilltop site west of Healdsburg, soaking up more than 5 inches as of 1:30 p.m. In other parts of north Sonoma County, more than 2 inches have collected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When we've had a dry period and we're sort of bumping that high pressure out of the way, things tend to go a little slower,\" Null said. \"But now, things seem to be going fairly well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds have been strong at higher elevations -- the heaviest gust was 58 mph in Los Gatos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 12 p.m. in the Bay Area, the power went out at about 24,540 households, and 15,710 of those residences have been restored, PG&E said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also dozens of reports of lightning strikes near Sacramento, and at least one near San Francisco's Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426163\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 459px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10426163\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Bay Area is expecting a windy storm early in February. Rain began to fall Friday morning in San Francisco's Mission District. (Anya Schultz/KQED)\" width=\"459\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14181_rain2-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain began to fall Friday morning in San Francisco's Mission District. (Anya Schultz/KQED) \u003ccite>(Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service expects the afternoon commute to be a wet one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews in Sonoma County have prepared for minor flooding but nothing like the damage from a stronger system back in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The wind is really the one that we worry about in the coastal areas, and especially in the higher regions of the mountainous areas,\" said Ursula Hanks, coordinator of Marin County's Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters expect about 2 to 4 inches of rain in urban areas -- much more on the Sonoma coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10426166\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10426166\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Rain began to fall Friday morning in San Francisco's Mission District. (Anya Schultz/KQED)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14180_rain1-scr.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain began to fall Friday morning in San Francisco's Mission District. (Anya Schultz/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Null said significant river rises would probably occur north of the Bay Area. The Russian River is unlikely to flood, he said, though local creeks and streams will be susceptible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, weather at San Francisco International Airport is causing flight cancellations and delays, airport officials said. Seventy-seven departures and 78 arrivals have been canceled, said airport duty manager Joe Walsh. He said delays are about 60 to 90 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delays are occurring to both inbound and outbound flights, but Walsh said most of the delays are to arrivals. A delay program at the airport went into effect at 9 a.m. today and will be in effect until 10 p.m., Walsh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials at Oakland International Airport are reporting one canceled flight today because of the weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin Independent Journal is \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_27466281/live-updates-marinstorm-hits-county\" target=\"_blank\">live blogging the storm here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:25 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Our message to that incoming Pacific storm: Hey, we'll put up with a lot, but we expect you to show up \u003cem>on time\u003c/em>, man. And you are officially late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes: We bought into all the flash flood watches and the talk of 10 inches of rain out there somewhere in the hills north and south of the bay. Starting up there in Sonoma County by midnight. But as dawn dawns, there's been barely enough water coming out of the sky to wet the bottom of a rain gauge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So what gives?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, if you go far enough north -- close to the Sonoma-Mendocino County line -- it has been raining overnight, though hardly in torrents. Cloverdale, at the northern edge of Sonoma, got .48 of an inch between midnight and 6 a.m.; Venado, a very rainy hilltop site west of Healdsburg, also in Sonoma County, has gotten .64, and Santa Rosa .05. Closer to the central Bay Area, several Marin locations, including the village of Olema near Point Reyes, have reported .01 of an inch since midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much farther up the coast -- in northern Mendocino and Humboldt counties -- there's been lots of rain. Honeydew, a hamlet on the Mattole River in southern Humboldt, has gotten about 7 inches of ran in the past 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area, the National Weather Service is now saying we should expect rain in the central Bay Area by this afternoon. A flash flood watch for North Bay counties, originally set to expire at 10 p.m. Friday, has been extended to 6 a.m. Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An advisory for winds between 25-35 mph with gusts up to 60 on peaks and ridgetops is in place through 4 a.m. Saturday. Highest wind gusts reported so far have been 56 mph on Mount Diablo and 49 mph at Point Reyes. Caltrans has posted a high-wind advisory for drivers on the Bay Bridge throughout the day Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Earlier post:\u003c/strong> Watching the \u003ca href=\"http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mux&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service online radarscope\u003c/a> Thursday night after six weeks of midwinter dry weather, you can see there's rain out there offshore. But it has seemed to crawl toward the coast all evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as of 10:30 p.m. Thursday, we've got the first reports of rain in the nine-county Bay Area: four-hundredths of an inch of rain in the Sonoma County town of Cloverdale, on the border of Mendocino County. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Obama administration is \"all in\" when it comes to helping California deal with a historic drought, said U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell on Friday in announcing a new $50 million relief program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jewell made the announcement in Sacramento alongside Gov. Jerry Brown, and pledged additional help from the federal government as needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am well aware of the importance of California to the country's economy, \" said Jewell. \"What happens here in California matters to the rest of the nation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/secretary-jewell-announces-50-million-for-western-drought-response.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">The new aid, designated for drought relief in the western U.S. but pretty much focused on California\u003c/a>, includes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>$19.9 million in drought monitoring, water pumping assistance and conservation work for the \u003ca href=\"http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Project.jsp?proj_Name=Central+Valley+Project\" target=\"_blank\">federal Central Valley Project\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$9 million for water conservation grants, given out through a new competitive program for new ideas and efforts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>$8.6 million for help in creating more storage for water that comes from the Colorado River\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10426263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2363\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-400x400.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-1440x1440.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363-75x75.jpg 75w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/IMG_2363.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">Brown, in remarks to reporters at the announcement event, said it was important not to dismiss the significance of even a relatively small amount -- $50 million -- of new assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Every $50 million counts,\" said Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Obama's new budget for the federal fiscal year that begins in October includes more than $280 million in funding for additional California and drought-related programs, including help for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Jewell and Brown used the event to highlight the concern that drought conditions could persist under long-term changes to the region's climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got our hands full,\" said the governor. \"This is complex, difficult stuff.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:10 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Wet -- and windy. That's the latest word from the National Weather Service on a storm expected to blow ashore later today north of the Golden Gate and move south through the Bay Area on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service has issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ006&warncounty=CAC075&firewxzone=CAZ006&local_place1=San%20Francisco%20CA&product1=Wind+Advisory&lat=37.775&lon=-122.41833#.VNOwImRE6c8\" target=\"_blank\">an advisory for high winds\u003c/a> that will take effect before dawn Friday and continue through Saturday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The advisory warns of sustained southerly winds of 20 to 35 mph with gusts up to 50 mph. The region's hills could see gusts up to 60 mph. That forecast raises concerns about the potential for widespread power outages. About half a million PG&E customers lost electricity during \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">a powerful storm \u003c/a>that swept through the region in early December .\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC041&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=6%20Miles%20WNW%20Novato%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&lat=38.1094&lon=-122.6588#.VNOxMmRE6c8\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a>, effective at 10 p.m. Thursday, is posted for Sonoma, Marin and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:20 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/strong>: The closer this week's storm gets, the wetter it looks. With heavy rain forecast to begin as early as Thursday evening north of the Golden Gate, the National Weather Service forecast office for the Bay Area has issued a flash flood watch for all of Sonoma County and most of Marin and Napa counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A ridge of high pressure that has kept the region dry, warm and occasionally smoggy over the past six weeks is giving way to a front that will tap into a heavy plume of moisture from the subtropics. After coming ashore late Thursday, the storm is forecast to move slowly south through the Bay Area on Friday, bringing periods of heavy rain to the entire region. Rain is expected to slacken Saturday, with a brief break in the weather before another wet storm arrives Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=mtr\" target=\"_blank\">NWS says\u003c/a> the highlands of western Sonoma County will see the highest rain totals, with some ridgetop locales in the Russian River watershed getting 10 inches of rain or more from the storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of Marin and Napa counties and the Santa Cruz Mountains can expect 3 to 6 inches of rain. Bayside and valley locations will get between 1 and 3 inches, forecasters say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What impact will the storms have on the drought?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the larger picture -- we're in our fourth year of an acute shortage of rain and snow -- not much, perhaps. But the weather systems are expected to dump copious volumes of precipitation in the Sacramento River and Feather River watersheds, which should boost storage in the state's two biggest reservoirs, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville. Shasta is currently at 65 percent and Oroville at 62 percent of average for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Can you remember, without thinking about it too hard, the last time you saw rain here in the Bay Area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For me, it was Christmas Eve, when it rained just hard enough and long enough to get water running in the Berkeley gutters. Then the sun came out, and it's been shining ever since. As most of us have heard by now, San Francisco just finished its first rainless January since record keeping started in the winter of 1849-50.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.posthaven.com/driest-january\" target=\"_blank\">meteorologist Jan Null notes\u003c/a> that the dry opening month of 2015 continues the trend of recent droughty winters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>In San Francisco, where records go back the longest to 1850, it broke the record of 0.06\" set all the way back in 2014! And it is noteworthy that in 2013, January had just 0.49\", the 5th driest on record. This makes the average for the past 10 years just 3.03\", compared to the 30-year normal of 4.50\".\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>But why dwell on the past? The National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">is now saying\u003c/a>, with what sounds like a high degree of confidence, that we can expect rain by the end of the week. Forecasters say that the persistent ridge of high pressure -- you may know it as the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/ridiculous-ridge-may-be-back-to-prolong-california-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">ridiculously resilient ridge\u003c/a> -- will be shoved aside, opening the way for a rich plume of moist air to flow to the coast from the subtropical Pacific. That setup, known variously as a Pineapple Express or atmospheric river, will create conditions ripe for a good shot of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service says the hills and mountains in Sonoma County's Russian River watershed could see 5 inches from the storm, starting Thursday night. Rain is expected to spread across the entire Bay Area by Friday morning. Rain totals will be highest just north of the Golden Gate and in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which could get 2 to 3 inches of rain. Most of the central Bay Area could get 1 to 2 inches, with the South Bay and eastern valleys getting maybe half an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Friday won't be the end of the wet weather, the weather service says: A chance of rain will continue Saturday, with another weather system arriving Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, proprietor of the California Weather Blog and coiner of that \"ridiculous ridge\" lingo, observes that the incoming weather is the latest episode in what he calls some serious \"weather whiplash\" over the past several months. Here's how he summarizes the upcoming storm scenario:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As seems to have become the theme over the past few years, an intense precipitation event now appears likely to immediately follow an extraordinary dry spell across Northern California. Confidence has been growing in recent days that another extremely moist plume of subtropical moisture will take aim at NorCal during the first week in February, bringing heavy to excessive precipitation to at least the far northern part of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent numerical model runs have been starting to shift this atmospheric river further south along the California coast, meaning that places at least as far south as the Bay Area are likely to see significant precipitation over the next 7-10 days. While there’s still quite a bit of uncertainty regarding the details of this upcoming pattern change, it’s fair to say that someone along the West Coast is going to get a serious soaking, and the focus may well be the northern 1/3 of California. Simulated rain totals for a ~7 day precip event have been very impressive for the North Coast, actually exceeding 20-25 inches of liquid in a couple of recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs\" target=\"_blank\">GFS [Global Forecast System]\u003c/a> runs (which is about as high as I can recall having seen in a global model, though it’s possible this could be at least partly due to the recent increase in GFS horizontal resolution). Atmospheric rivers are certainly capable of delivering that kind of precipitation intensity in NorCal, but the question more than a few days out is always where exactly the associated moisture plume will come ashore–and whether it will stall out over a particular region for an extended period of time, raising flooding concerns. At this point, it’s still too early to discern the details, but given the impressively juicy airmass that next week’s storms are likely to tap into I would not be surprised if at least some portion of NorCal was dealing with some significant flood concerns within 7-10 days.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There is a dark lining in those rain-laden clouds blowing our way, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain remarks that this storm is expected to be very warm. Thus Sierra Nevada snow levels, which are only 25 percent of average for this time of year, won't be getting a lot of help from the coming wet weather.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">is now saying\u003c/a>, with what sounds like a high degree of confidence, that we can expect rain by the end of the week. Forecasters say that the persistent ridge of high pressure -- you may know it as the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/audio/ridiculous-ridge-may-be-back-to-prolong-california-drought/\" target=\"_blank\">ridiculously resilient ridge\u003c/a> -- will be shoved aside, opening the way for a rich plume of moist air to flow to the coast from the subtropical Pacific. That setup, known variously as a Pineapple Express or atmospheric river, will create conditions ripe for a good shot of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service says the hills and mountains in Sonoma County's Russian River watershed could see 5 inches from the storm, starting Thursday night. 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While there’s still quite a bit of uncertainty regarding the details of this upcoming pattern change, it’s fair to say that someone along the West Coast is going to get a serious soaking, and the focus may well be the northern 1/3 of California. Simulated rain totals for a ~7 day precip event have been very impressive for the North Coast, actually exceeding 20-25 inches of liquid in a couple of recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs\" target=\"_blank\">GFS [Global Forecast System]\u003c/a> runs (which is about as high as I can recall having seen in a global model, though it’s possible this could be at least partly due to the recent increase in GFS horizontal resolution). 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Among his notable compositions is “Flow, Debris, Fall,” in which a ghostly, playerless digital piano was programmed to randomly generate music while an ensemble of acoustic musicians improvised along with it. The sound was what reviewer \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/20/us/in-berkeley-eco-ensemble-opens-season-with-campions-flow-debris-fall.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Berger, in the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, called “stunning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/62111455″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For “Natural Frequencies,” Campion, with Jeff Lubow at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies, created a computer program that tells the bells what to play based on the earth’s movements. The program, says Campion, isn’t “reading a score. It’s \u003cem>generating\u003c/em> a score.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Neimeyer, who designed the project’s lighting, has also experimented with the intersection of data and live events; his previous work includes a piece in the 2013 Venice Biennale that translated data from the rising tides threatening the Maldive Islands into a sound and visual composition. Campion also got help from Perin Meyer of Berkeley’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.meyersound.com/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meyer Sound\u003c/a>—the audio firm whose \u003ca href=\"http://www.meyersound.com/product/constellation/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Constellation\u003c/a> system, in place locally at Zellerbach Hall and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2014/12/15/live-review-soundbox-classical-goes-clubbing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoundBox\u003c/a>, examines audio data and accordingly makes acoustic adjustments. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Weather:\u003c/em> Dry, still dry. Our next weak, uncertain chance for rain is late this weekend. For details: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mtr/\" target=\"_blank\">National Weather Service Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Federal biologists reject claims that raising Shasta Dam will aid salmon\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Jose Mercury News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Less than three months after California voters approved a water bond that contains $2.7 billion for new water storage, one of the leading projects under consideration has suffered a potentially fatal setback. 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She swears the vegetables taste better when given rainwater instead of treated city water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the Argerises' new neighbors is putting in a swimming pool, and the Argerises are countering with plans to add a couple more rain barrels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rationalizing Rain Barrels \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain barrels seemed a logical step up from my current conservation hacks –- including catching cold water in a bucket while waiting for hot water in the shower, then dumping the bucket into the toilet when it needs a flush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's tough to make a strictly dollars-and-cents argument for rain harvesting if you’re hooked up to municipal water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Argerises bought 205-gallon tanks for $325 each with the whole setup costing a total of $1,500 and four hours of their labor. (There are cheaper options. For instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.alternativesolutionsofcampbell.com/products.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alternative Solutions\u003c/a> in Campbell sells recycled barrels for about $100 and \u003ca href=\"https://squareup.com/market/alternative-solutions-8?utm_source=alternative-solutions-8&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=button_v1#menu\" target=\"_blank\">a DIY rain barrel starter kit\u003c/a> for $30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stack that cost up against the price you're paying for tap water. That supply is really cheap -- less than a penny a gallon in many districts. So your savings for filling up a 205-gallon rain barrel don't amount to much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But of course the argument for rain barrels, and for household water conservation, isn't about the low price we're paying -- though maybe it should be. Instead, it's about recognizing how precious and precarious our water supply really is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After what's looking like the driest January on record for much of the state, California is headed into a fourth year of drought. One barrel might not seem like much, but as California’s population grows, and our dwindling supply needs to serve more people, it’s in everyone’s interest to relax our grip on the faucet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>All Sorts of Ways to Conserve\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that leads to a point that folks with Bay Area water districts made to me when I asked them about rain barrels: It's probably more water-wise for me and most Bay Area residents to focus on the demand side of the water equation than on the supply side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barrels are “a great way to capture rainwater,\" said Nelsy Rodriguez of the East Bay Municipal Utility District. \"The trick is, it has to rain, and we don’t have a lot of control over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EBMUD doesn't offer rebates for rain barrels, Rodriguez says, focusing instead on getting people to check their plumbing for leaks. The East Bay district and others throughout the region also promote other familiar tools and strategies: high-efficiency toilets, washing machines and dishwashers, and low-flow shower heads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I love them because other people love them,\" said Dan Carney of the Marin Municipal Water District of new water-saving appliances. \"When they put them in, they work better so people are happy with them. They save water and money, so they are the best of all worlds. Good for people, the environment and the pocket book -- a great triple bottom line.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, am I going to go out and buy rain barrels now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago, I made the easy water conservation fixes: low-flow plumbing, short showers and implementation of the “\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/20/drought-etiquette-when-is-yellow-no-longer-mellow/\" target=\"_blank\">If it’s yellow, let it mellow\u003c/a>” toilet-flushing rule. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">B\u003c/span>y now, the Bay Area has seen the arrival of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of young seekers like Richard Henry Dana.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana was a college undergraduate who left school in a crisis, taking a radical course in his search for answers about who he was and what he might become. His path led him from what appeared to be a safe life at Harvard, the scion of an established Massachusetts family, to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in coming to the West Coast, his quest found at least partial fulfillment. He tested himself physically in the journey, found himself adept at a difficult occupation, discovered exotic cultures and even picked up a new language, Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I suspect that many of us share a little bit of that story. We've come here looking for education, work, love, a change of scenery, a place where we might more fully know ourselves and give the genius we believe lives inside us a chance to breathe a little.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity.'\u003ccite>Richard Henry Dana\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>That much we might have in common with Richard Henry Dana. But his experience was essentially different from that of the throngs, including us, who have come anticipating a place of striking beauty, diverse culture and rich opportunity. Whatever we actually find, most of us have arrived ready to be enchanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was hardly that way for the 20-year-old Dana, who had shipped out as a common sailor on a trading voyage to an unknown coast. Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"BBV56SkjV9joNruaCgvFX89vACuWlokU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"stU2yGdY4FyadpEOH021b1tsAfRb6Nqz\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We'd love to hear about your favorite reads, too.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Here were his impressions of his arrival in December 1835, when his ship sailed through the yet-to-be-named Golden Gate to drop anchor off yet-to-be-named San Francisco:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vast solitude, the stillness of nature, a lonely harbor and a virtually deserted landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana's ship lay at anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, just offshore of the present-day Financial District, for more than three weeks. \"But during our whole stay,\" he said, \"not a sail came or went.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Except for the \"ruinous\" Presidio and Mission Dolores, each several miles from the anchorage, \"there were no other human habitations except that an enterprising Yankee years in advance of his time had put up … a shanty of rough boards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dana saw possibilities nonetheless, as he also wrote in \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=aVKPZQbKev4C\" target=\"_blank\">Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/a>,\" his memoir of the trip:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>If California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the centre of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, affording the best anchoring grounds in the whole western coast of America, all fit it for a place of great importance.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10399555\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 345px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10399555\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/richardhenrydana.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, Two Years Before the Mast, was published. (Library of Congress)\" width=\"345\" height=\"423\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Henry Dana as he appeared shortly after his account of sailing to California, \u003cem>Two Years Before the Mast\u003c/em>, was published. (Library of Congress)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, everything Dana saw was about to change, first in a trickle, then in a torrent. Drawn by reports of California's agricultural and trading prospects, the little village of Yerba Buena grew to about 20 homes by 1841. In January 1847, when the settlement changed its name to San Francisco, it was a town of several hundred people. A year later, when a carpenter and millwright named James Marshall picked gold out of the American River east of Sacramento, the settlement had 800 people or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gold changed everything. First it emptied out San Francisco, as the predominantly male population dropped everything to rush to the American River. Then it filled the city back up again the following year as tens of thousands of \"Argonauts\" swarmed through the city to hunt for treasure. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgpop.htm\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco's population\u003c/a> neared 25,000 in 1849 and 36,000 by 1852.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What did the city look like during this population explosion? Here's a rather romantic description from \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=SO9ibkwWXMAC\" target=\"_blank\">Bayard Taylor\u003c/a>, a New York reporter who landed in San Francisco in the latter half of 1849:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The appearance of San Francisco at night from the water is unlike anything I ever beheld. The houses are mostly of canvas, which is made transparent by the lamps within, and transforms them in the darkness to dwellings of solid light. Seated on the slopes of its three hills, the tents pitched among the chapparal to the very summits it gleams like an amphitheatre of fire. Here and there shine out brilliant points from the decoy lamps of the gaming houses; and through the indistinct murmur of the streets comes by fits the sound of music from their hot and crowded precincts.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Of course, hundreds of witnesses attest that the city in the making was also crowded, disorganized, filthy and vermin-ridden. It was expensive, rife with out-of-control property speculation, and full of all the familiar vices, most notably gambling houses. It was prone to burning down, with half a dozen blazes sweeping parts of the city in the first few years of the Gold Rush.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, that was San Francisco, becoming the archetype of the American boomtown (a term, by the way, that did not come into use until the 1880s).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And like other towns during other booms, it proved to be an economically unstable place that was at first almost wholly dependent on the continuing extraction of gold and expansion of population to move ahead. The city suffered several small downturns during its first few years before declining gold shipments knocked the bottom out of the speculative economy in 1854 and 1855.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the newspapers in town, the Daily Alta California, published an essay in June 1855 that surveyed the wreckage of the real estate market and talked about its deeper causes and costs:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It is an indisputable fact that nearly all the prominent operators of 1852-3 are now bankrupt, and the mass of smaller men are utterly ruined. A year or two ago they thought themselves rich — they lived extravagantly, kept their horses and carriages, furnished their houses magnificently, and now — they have nothing. Some few still hold out, and, with retrenched expenses, are waiting impatiently for a \"rise.\" They will probably be sick at heart before it is realized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this system of overvaluation has not merely ruined those engaged in Real Estate operations: It has to a certain degree debauched the whole community. Parties who saw futures in land have neglected their legitimate callings to squat ... and drag out unprofitable years waiting for a settlement of titles. A recklessness of human life has been engendered, which has told very badly on the interests of the State at large, preventing many who would have made excellent citizens from coming to these shores. It has kept rates of interest extravagantly high, thereby eating out the vitality of the republic. A disposition to speculate desperately — in other words, to gamble — not merely in land, but in everything else, has been fostered by it, and manifests itself in the frantic effort to \"get whole\" which have led men of high social standing to the commission of the most debasing Crimes. In a word, it has vitiated the morals of the whole community.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The city would not be down for long, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">S\u003c/span>o, we've been poring over Richard Henry Dana, Bayard Taylor and some of the many other tellings and retellings of San Francisco Bay Area and California history with the aim of putting together a narrative of the booms and busts that started with the Gold Rush, why and how they have happened, and what makes each of those ups and downs unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes -- that's an epic ambition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First off, look at the sweep and complexity of the subject. For instance: One of the very finest attempts to tackle this regional history, \"\u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xlE4hwWVqqwC\" target=\"_blank\">The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective\u003c/a>,\" by a Southern California urban planner and UC Berkeley scholar named \u003ca href=\"http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb0h4n99rb&doc.view=frames&chunk.id=div00069&toc.depth=1&toc.id=\" target=\"_blank\">Mel Scott\u003c/a>, starts with a discussion of what the local landscape looked like during the last Ice Age. One big difference from today: no San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At some point after the glaciers retreated and the bay appeared, people make their appearance: the native Californians, Spanish explorers and their missions, the arrival of the Anglos, Yankees and immigrants from every quarter of the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then you've got the Gold Rush, which extracted hundreds of millions of dollars in gold from the Sierra Nevada foothills in less than a decade. You've got San Francisco's rapid growth, from 800 residents to about 25,000 in little more than a year, and the city's rapid rise to power as a financial, manufacturing and shipping center. And you've got the entire region's continuing industrial and urban development through war, peace and natural calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a story that rolls from the birth of local manufacturing at San Francisco's \u003ca href=\"http://www.pier70sf.org/history/p70_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">Union Iron Works\u003c/a> to the creation of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/giannini_hi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bank of America\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/S-F-controller-hails-Twitter-tax-break-as-5851498.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Twitter tax break\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, skipping across chronological bullet points barely hints at the hard parts of the region's history: not just the recurring reversals in regional fortunes -- the bust years, when they've occurred -- but the human, environmental and, some would argue, moral costs of the boom times. Those themes, which touch on the genocide carried out against California's native people to the despoiling of nature to the gentrification of the Bay Area's core cities in our time, are vast and now command wide attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=UKFaw7g0NS4C\" target=\"_blank\">Imperial San Francisco\u003c/a>,\" historian Gray Brechin interprets the rise of San Francisco and institutions from the local media to the University of California as the ruthless and spectacularly effective extension of a national policy that sought to subjugate not only our region, California and the West, but the entire Pacific basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10398922\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-e1420513175372.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10398922\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/map_1857-400x276.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco in 1857\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco in 1857\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>(Brechin is also making a larger point about the tendency of cities everywhere to colonize and extract the wealth of a surrounding domain. But his unsparingly acid tone is kind of fun. At one point, he summarizes the reality of the individual Gold Rush miner as an affair of \"primitive technology and rampant alcoholism and violence ... with backbreaking labor, lice, worms, and dysentery.\" Funny -- I don't remember that verse in \"\u003ca href=\"http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/songs/childrens/clemtinemp3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">My Darling Clementine\u003c/a>.\")\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You'll find a critical but more nuanced view of the good and bad in the Gold Rush from \"\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=F3SnmtdZsbEC\" target=\"_blank\">Rooted in Barbarous Soil\u003c/a>,\" a volume of essays on the state's founding era edited by Kevin Starr, the pre-eminent historian of California. In his introduction, Starr acknowledges the \"racist criminality\" that characterized the era's treatment of the native population and the denial of liberty and justice to Gold Rush immigrants of color, and he insists that \"we cannot exempt ourselves from continuities and responsibilities of prejudice down to our own time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he also argues that despite the repressive behavior of the state's Anglo-American settlers, the gathering of people here from all over the world sparked a sort of revolution in diversity that in the long run has led to a wide range of accomplishments in arts and sciences and even in the modern struggle for social justice. Starr writes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"For some, the Gold Rush is a panorama of delusion, aggression, lies and deceit, broken promises and empty dreams. For those who think this way, those long-ago years continue today in masked but still damaging forms. ... Yet for those who believe that the California experiment, which is part of the larger American experiment, is of lasting value, the sins of the Gold Rush, while not denied or even forgiven, can be held in equipoise, in mitigating judgment, against all that the Gold Rush positively achieved. ... Such positive results do not excuse the sins of the past; yet they do provide a hope that what has been accomplished has been, on balance, worth at least some of the terrible cost.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So: We have a big, complex topic that has been studied and written about incessantly, and often competently, for more than 150 years. What can we add?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A couple of things, we hope. For starters, an impressionistic, well-focused sense of what happened at key points in the Bay Area's history of booms and busts. Beyond that, some visual aids that suggest the evolution of the Bay Area and the face of both prosperity and hard times here over the past century and a half. Also, we'll point to some of the many excellent sources -- from early, first-person accounts to later analytical histories -- that lend deeper insight into our history of booms and busts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Michael Picker, appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to become the new president of the California Public Utilities Commission, told KQED he is not concerned about the close ties the agency has had with PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said he thinks the large regulatory agency is too focused on the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker, whose appointment will become effective at the beginning of the new year, said he wants the agency to more aggressively investigate safety violations and evolve into a stronger and faster enforcer of rules governing the state’s energy and transportation industries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to the criticism that dogged his predecessor -- detractors have criticized the CPUC for having a cozy relationship with PG&E -- Picker said he is not worried. His remarks stunned a local state senator, a consumer advocacy group and two experts who follow state politics and government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183742356\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outgoing CPUC president, Michael Peevey, came under fire after \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/09/15/cpuc-act-after-new-round-of-inappropriate-emails-with-pge\" target=\"_blank\">emails showed improper ties\u003c/a> between the commission and the utility company it regulates. Those emails showed Peevey and PG&E executives privately discussed regulatory matters in the years after the deadly PG&E natural gas transmission line explosion in San Bruno in September 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/en/about/newsroom/newsdetails/index.page?title=20141222_pge_backs_transparency_and_accountability_in_communications_with_the_cpuc_and_self-reports_additional_emails_that_could_reflect_past_violations_of_rules\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E recently announced\u003c/a> that it was releasing 65,000 emails between the company and the commission, including a dozen email chains that executives believe may have been in violation of the CPUC's rules on ex parte communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not concerned because I don’t do that stuff,” Picker said. “If there’s a prohibition on having a conversation with somebody about something that’s on our agenda or in a proceeding, I’m not going to talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Picker emphasized that the scrutiny and criticism of his agency’s ties to PG&E are not as important outside the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I live in Sacramento and I commute to work,\" Picker said. \"A lot of the Bay Area focus on this tends to pass me by because in Sacramento we have other concerns.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Talking to my neighbors, they’re much more worried about how will we know when our gas pipelines are safe and a lot less about the back and forth in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the commission would have a different relationship with PG&E, Picker said, \"I can't say the organization is really going to change because I don't think the organization generally had those kinds of communications. Nor do I detect they currently are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those comments surprised state Sen. Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), a critic of PG&E who represents San Bruno and who called for Peevey's ouster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was shocked to hear that Mr. Picker did not feel that there was a cozy relationship that existed with PG&E and the PUC,\" Hill said. \"Certainly the governor recognized the problem, and that's why I believe he picked Mr. Picker for the position for president. And certainly everyone else recognized the conflict as well.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Hill said he thought Brown made the right choice in Picker and applauded the new CPUC president for his focus on safety, enforcement and transparency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183743019\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker's remarks about his agency's dealings with PG&E \"were stunning in how politically tone deaf they were about how PG&E essentially owned members of the PUC and many of its top political advisors,\" said David McCuan, a Sonoma State University professor of political science who specializes in state politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I wish he would have been more open and forthcoming,\" said Jessica Levinson, a Loyola Law School professor who focuses on governance issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker's comments also struck a nerve with the local consumer advocacy group, The Utility Reform Network (TURN), which was not happy that Picker, who's been on the commission since January, did not speak up in recent weeks to denounce ties between the agency and PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In the last couple of CPUC meetings, many were stunned that not only did Peevey fail to address recent revelations of back-room deals, but none of the other commissioners did either,\" TURN spokeswoman Mindy Spatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"While everyone from the governor on down seems unwilling to acknowledge the public's concerns about corruption, those concerns are very real, bread-and-butter issues,\" Spatt said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Picker told KQED that he feels the CPUC spends too much time on issues local to the Bay Area, including a focus on the emerging ride-service industry that has taken business away from the region's cab companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission has required Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar to provide increased auto insurance coverage for their drivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I will just remind you guys, the PUC is a statewide organization. So while people in San Francisco have a particular relationship with this new industry, we have to regulate it from a statewide perspective,\" Picker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're not a neighborhood regulatory agency,\" he said. \"We also have to listen to what's taking place in other parts of the state.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/183742753\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The chair of the Senate's Committee on Utilities and Communication, state Sen. 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