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Some of the smaller resorts are barely hanging on, while larger players are carving out new ways to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193176851″ 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>\u003ca href=\"http://www.skihomewood.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homewood Mountain Resort\u003c/a> is one of those struggling with the weather. It is a smaller ski area frequented by locals. Unlike the bigger resorts, Homewood sells lift tickets for under $50, and it isn’t filled with restaurants and retail chains. 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There was a trail of snow where the bunny slope would be and another one leading up to the lift. They were both packed down hard, making a sad white outline around the patches of mud and grass that covered the bottom of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up top there was some snow, but Homewood doesn’t have a gondola to ferry people up there. It’s planning on building one in the next few years so that it can better handle the warm, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season, a lack of snow forced Homewood to shut down for two weeks in February. It partially reopened the day after I visited, thanks to a storm. 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The tourists who come up here are just searching for something to do, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willard runs the shop with his family. His son, Dax, worries that businesses like theirs will get pushed out by chain stores that can weather the unpredictable climate. Dax fears Tahoe will become more corporate — “Wal-Martized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”CdSqLevoShGiOGceyWBeGB3tOGXfVBAY”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are leaving town,” he says, “and the community and culture are getting lost a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ski resorts themselves are already getting more consolidated. Five of Tahoe’s ski areas are now owned by either Powdr Corp. or Vail Resorts, both industry giants. Over the last few years, the private equity firm KSL Partners has merged operations at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Daniel Scott studies tourism and climate change at the University of Waterloo in Canada. 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It offers season passes that can be used at other resorts, so skiers and snowboarders can chase the powder — that is, if they have the money to travel. Squaw also has attractions besides the mountain: restaurants, retail, a winter park with tubing. And there is a plan in the works for further development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wirth says, “We know for a fact we need additional nightly rental lodging units of a higher quality to compete with the great ski resort complexes of Colorado and Utah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not everyone is applauding this competition. Tom Mooers heads Sierra Watch, a local conservation group. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It would not be an odd sight in the spring. But there is something depressing about a closed ski slope in the middle of winter. The trails are bare and grassy. The chairlifts just hang there, waving a little with the breeze. It’s like walking into an empty restaurant on a Friday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is the mood at Lake Tahoe these days. Everyone is talking about this strange weather — on the radio, in the shops, on \u003ca href=\"http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Tahoe-Businesses-Adapting-to-Lack-of-Snow-240224891.html\">local TV\u003c/a>. You can’t escape it. This is the fourth lousy winter season in a row for the ski industry, and it has been economically devastating for the area. Some of the smaller resorts are barely hanging on, while larger players are carving out new ways to turn a profit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='”100%”' height='”166″'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193176851″&visual=true&”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false”'\n title='”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/193176851″'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.skihomewood.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Homewood Mountain Resort\u003c/a> is one of those struggling with the weather. It is a smaller ski area frequented by locals. Unlike the bigger resorts, Homewood sells lift tickets for under $50, and it isn’t filled with restaurants and retail chains. The base of the mountain starts right at the lake, a relatively low elevation that gives it beautiful views but not much snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10443120\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 435px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14383_Tahoe-and-more-266.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10443120\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14383_Tahoe-and-more-266.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Pendleton says this is shaping up to be the worst winter ever for his hotel\" width=\"435\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14383_Tahoe-and-more-266.JPG-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14383_Tahoe-and-more-266.JPG-qut-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14383_Tahoe-and-more-266.JPG-qut-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/RS14383_Tahoe-and-more-266.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Doug Pendleton, of Tahoe City, says this is shaping up to be the worst winter ever for his hotel. \u003ccite>(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I visited Homewood in mid-February, it was closed. There was a trail of snow where the bunny slope would be and another one leading up to the lift. They were both packed down hard, making a sad white outline around the patches of mud and grass that covered the bottom of the mountain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up top there was some snow, but Homewood doesn’t have a gondola to ferry people up there. It’s planning on building one in the next few years so that it can better handle the warm, dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This season, a lack of snow forced Homewood to shut down for two weeks in February. It partially reopened the day after I visited, thanks to a storm. But now it is closed again and, according to the website, “has its fingers crossed for \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/2015/01/29/shrinking-sierra-snowpack-heightens-drought-worries/\">Miracle March\u003c/a>.” Homewood might get some snow this weekend, but who knows if it will be enough to reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homewood is not the only resort suffering. Donner Ski Ranch, Dodge Ridge and others all have gone on hold at some point this season. Even the bigger resorts have had to shut trails and rely on snowmaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dennis Willard runs a sports and rental shop in Tahoe City. “I’ve been up here 35 years and it has never really been this bad,” he says. It is so warm that the golf course near Willard’s shop has opened, and he says that some stores are renting out bikes alongside skis and snowboards. He has even started doing kayak rentals. The tourists who come up here are just searching for something to do, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Willard runs the shop with his family. His son, Dax, worries that businesses like theirs will get pushed out by chain stores that can weather the unpredictable climate. Dax fears Tahoe will become more corporate — “Wal-Martized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People are leaving town,” he says, “and the community and culture are getting lost a little bit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ski resorts themselves are already getting more consolidated. Five of Tahoe’s ski areas are now owned by either Powdr Corp. or Vail Resorts, both industry giants. Over the last few years, the private equity firm KSL Partners has merged operations at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Daniel Scott studies tourism and climate change at the University of Waterloo in Canada. He says variable weather favors bigger companies. “The problem with mom-and-pop resorts is if you have two or three bad years in a row, your financial reserves are gone,” he says. “You can’t make a go of it anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Larger corporations are more climate-resilient, Scott says. They have capital reserves to ride out bad years and can invest in snowmaking to hedge a lack of precipitation. Many resort chains are now buying ski areas across the country so they can cash in wherever the snow falls. 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"content": "\u003cp>Farmer and activist \u003ca href=\"http://www.crpe-ej.org/crpe/index.php/about-us/who-we-are/board-of-directors/111-tom-frantz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Frantz\u003c/a> lives in Shafter, a town just up the road from Bakersfield where oil rigs are as common as almond trees. But these days, his attention is focused on oil coming from outside the state, oil that comes in by train and unloads at crude-by-rail terminals.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘We’re asking for an injunction. We want to stop the project in its tracks.’\u003ccite>Tom Frantz,\u003cbr>\nAssociation of Irritated Residents\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“These tracks just ahead of us, they go under I-5,” says Frantz. “That’s just another potential accident spot. That’s not as dangerous as the multiple roads this rail line crosses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From his truck, he points out the single track that leads west from Bakersfield to the new Bakersfield Crude Terminal near the town of Taft. It’s one of many terminals that have been built in California in the past few years. And Frantz isn’t happy about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/191766352″ 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>In fact, there has been a groundswell of opposition to the recent construction of crude-by-rail terminals in California. In 2008, no oil came into the state by rail. Last year, rail cars brought in more than 5.6 million barrels — from Canada and states like North Dakota, where the oil, called Bakken crude, is especially volatile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trains carrying Bakken crude have derailed in several states, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/02/16/386808618/train-derailment-in-west-virginia-sends-oil-tanker-into-river\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">including West Virginia\u003c/a> this week, causing fires or explosions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, one train carrying Bakken crude derailed in the resort town of \u003ca href=\"http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/quebecexplosion.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lac-Megantic, Quebec\u003c/a>. Forty-seven people were killed and the town’s center was devastated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frantz says he’s concerned not only about explosions but also about pollutants. He says the air quality is bad enough in the Central Valley without added emissions. His Association of Irritated Residents joined several other groups suing the permitting agency — the regional air district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking for an injunction,” he says. “We want to stop the project in its tracks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics say the \u003ca href=\"http://www.valleyair.org/Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District\u003c/a> was worse than a rubber stamp for the project. Elizabeth Forsyth works for \u003ca href=\"http://earthjustice.org/cases/2015/stopping-dangerous-and-toxic-crude-oil-trains-at-bakersfield-terminal\">Earthjustice\u003c/a> and is the lead lawyer on the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The air district had the ability to shape this project, negotiated the project with the applicant, it helped the applicant avoid pollution controls and environmental review,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forsyth says emails obtained through a public records request show the air district helped the builder, Plains All American Pipeline, keep its emission numbers just below the threshold required for public notice and then helped skirt an environmental review on additional permits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To me the role of the air district is to protect the residents of the San Joaquin Valley from air pollution,” Forsyth says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Annette Ballatore-Williamson, a lawyer for the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, says the district follows strict guidelines and that it’s not unusual for an applicant to ask the air district for advice on lowering emission numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they can modify their project and bring their emissions down to below that public-noticing threshold, then it benefits everybody,” she says. “It benefits the facility, the applicant, because then they don’t have to put on such stringent, costly pollution controls, and it benefits the public because emissions are reduced for the project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says the district receives about 2,000 permit applications for different projects in a typical year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This one, when it came to us, wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, you know, kind of triggered red flags or anything along those lines,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But crude-by-rail terminals are triggering red flags statewide. Activists say that by forcing companies to do environmental studies, damage is often mitigated. Sometimes it brings a commitment to use safer tank cars, something the federal Department of Transportation hopes to enforce in new regulations recently submitted for review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, oil companies say these new terminals are a good thing –- it keeps the oil we use domestic and cheap. Tupper Hull, a spokesman for the industry’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.wspa.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western States Petroleum Association\u003c/a>, says the Bakersfield terminal opens up more opportunity for refiners — and that directly benefits consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a bit isolated from the rest of the country,” he says. “No pipelines connect California with the rest of the country. 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He said the primary suspect is one of two Coast Guard cutters in the estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People in boats were contacted by marina security and told that it was our opinion that it would be better if they didn’t stay in the marina,\" Harbormaster Brock de Lappe said, \"but we didn’t force any kind of an evacuation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLappe added that calling the incident an oil spill might be misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, the Coast Guard says it is an oil spill,\" he said. \"It is petroleum. It’s not heavy black crude oil -- it’s a fuel. It’s not gooey, black tarball oil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430521\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10430521\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"An oil slick on the water in the Oakland Estuary on Feb. 11.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oil slick on the water in the Oakland Estuary on Feb. 11. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Foley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hayward resident Mark Foley was on his boat in the marina last night when he noticed \"just an extremely intense smell of fuel,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I split, I got out of here,\" Foley said. \"The smell of fuel was too intense, you could see it in the water. 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But there is no such requirement when the source of a spill is unknown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This most recent mystery spill highlights the need for better communication from responding state agencies, and the Coast Guard, when the party responsible for the spill is unknown,\" she said. \"It could be that the state had adequate resources out and the agencies were coordinated, but it’s hard for me to know because we didn’t have access to the information on a real-time basis.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said a communication breakdown between the Coast Guard, state agencies, local responders and non-governmental organizations was one of the main problems of the 2007 incident that spilled 53,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil into the San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Wednesday, 2:20 p.m.\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nTwo Coast Guard cutters have not been eliminated as the source of an overnight oil spill in the Oakland Estuary, Coast Guard Ensign Jake Urrutia said, but he added that the vessels are not the only potential cause of the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A barge alongside one of the cutters this morning was transferring fuel, he said, and deploying a chemical boom around one of the ships was routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any time a Coast Guard vessel does fuel transfers, they'll put a boom out,\" Urrutia said. \"It's a precautionary measure in case something happens.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Wednesday, Feb. 11)\u003c/strong>:\u003cbr>\nThe Coast Guard and other agencies are investigating an oil spill in the Oakland Estuary overnight that prompted a voluntary evacuation of the Alameda Marina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is a bright yellow boom, or floating containment system, surrounding a Coast Guard vessel near its base on an island in the estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Petty Officer 2nd Class Dave Irvin said the Coast Guard began a response at first light, some seven hours after people at the marina noticed a strong smell of fuel and an oil slick on the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Irvin said the Coast Guard and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife are taking water samples to determine what was spilled and nail down the source. He said the primary suspect is one of two Coast Guard cutters in the estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People in boats were contacted by marina security and told that it was our opinion that it would be better if they didn’t stay in the marina,\" Harbormaster Brock de Lappe said, \"but we didn’t force any kind of an evacuation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeLappe added that calling the incident an oil spill might be misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, the Coast Guard says it is an oil spill,\" he said. \"It is petroleum. It’s not heavy black crude oil -- it’s a fuel. It’s not gooey, black tarball oil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10430521\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10430521\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"An oil slick on the water in the Oakland Estuary on Feb. 11.\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-400x225.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-800x450.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick-1440x810.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/02/slick.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An oil slick on the water in the Oakland Estuary on Feb. 11. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mark Foley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hayward resident Mark Foley was on his boat in the marina last night when he noticed \"just an extremely intense smell of fuel,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I split, I got out of here,\" Foley said. \"The smell of fuel was too intense, you could see it in the water. It was just really thick.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foley returned to the Marina early this morning to see the Coast Guard deploying the boom around one of the cutters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The smell is still intense and you can still see the rainbow sheen on the water from all the fuel,\" Foley said. \"There’s no birds out here. Normally there’s birds everywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A state DFW spokeswoman said the \u003ca href=\"http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/owcn/\" target=\"_blank\">Oiled Wildlife Care Network\u003c/a> is on scene. Representatives of the environmental group \u003ca href=\"https://baykeeper.org/blog/two-fuel-spills-bay\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Baykeeper\u003c/a> are also assessing the spill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coast Guard officials were investigating a separate oil spill near Shell's Martinez refinery last night when they got word of the Alameda spill.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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. 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": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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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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. 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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. 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. 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Firefighters halted the blaze early Monday before it could do serious damage, but the evacuations punctuated a January that is poised to go down as the driest in California history, giving rise to summerlike conditions — including the threat of wildfire. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Destructive-extremes-California-s-dry-January-6041530.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Bay Area weather radar might be in the wrong place\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Santa Cruz Sentinel)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>On the shoulder of Mount Umunhum in the Santa Cruz Mountains is something that, from afar, resembles a golf ball on a stick. But it's no plaything. Inside spins the National Weather Service's main Doppler radar for the greater Bay Area. Many local weather experts, though, say it's simply in the wrong location. And how it got there is a two-decade-old tale of local weather politics that still affects Bay Area forecasts to this day. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27386108/many-local-weather-experts-say-radar-is-simply\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dust from feedlots and factory farms: Stinky, yucky -- and dangerous\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Mother Jones)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ever approached a feedlot teeming with thousands of cattle? Unlike industrialized hog and chicken farms, where huge enclosed buildings trap at least some of the smell, cattle feedlots are open-air—as anyone who has driven Highway 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco can testify. Turns out, when you inhale the aroma, you're not just getting a blast of ammonia and other noxious fumes. You're also probably breathing in tiny particles of antibiotics, bacteria from cows' \"fecal matter and gut flora,\" and antibiotic-resistant gene sequences. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/01/dust-factory-farms-antibiotic-resistant-genes\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Koch Brothers cash will swamp California political contests\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The billionaire Koch brothers’ intention to spend nearly $900 million on conservative candidates and causes in the 2016 election cycle will unleash a tidal wave of cash that will swamp the political landscape even in solidly blue California, experts said Tuesday. When it comes to spreading money around, the spending plan that industrialists Charles and David Koch unveiled Monday will put the brothers and an estimated 300 conservative mega-donors in their network on a plane now occupied only by the country’s two major political parties. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Koch-brothers-cash-will-wash-over-California-6044288.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hidden in plain sight: Santa Clara County counts its homeless\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amid a historic boom, volunteers fan out to take a census of those who have no place to live but vacant lots and roadsides. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/hidden-in-plain-view-santa-clara-county-counts-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford swimmer charged with raping unconscious women\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Stanford University student and star swimmer will be charged with rape after he met a woman at a campus party and assaulted her as she lay intoxicated and unconscious outside, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Tuesday. The district attorney’s office said two students on bicycles stopped to help after finding freshman Brock Allen Turner, 19, on top of the woman in the early morning hours of Jan. 18 on Lomita Court, near fraternity houses on university grounds. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stanford-athlete-accused-of-raping-unconscious-6044286.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Local man launches campaign to ban giant S.F. waterslide\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(SF Weekly)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A guy named Paul Duffy has started a petition to put an end to the \"Slide The City\" event where thousands of waterpark enthusiasts will gather on the city streets to take a ride down the world's largest slip 'n slide. But it's not because Duffy hates fun or even slides for that matter. 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Biologists at the main federal agency that oversees the Endangered Species Act have concluded they cannot endorse a $1.1 billion plan to raise the height of the dam at California's largest reservoir, Shasta Lake, because of its impact on endangered salmon. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27406666/plan-raise-shasta-dam-takes-hit-after-federal\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wildlife agencies see collapse of winter-run chinook salmon\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Capital Public Radio)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>High water temperatures in the Sacramento River last summer and fall caused 95 percent of naturally-spawning winter-run salmon egg and fry to die. “I think this is really unprecedented, that we’ve seen this level of temperature mortality,” says Maria Rea with NOAA Fisheries. \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/01/27/wildlife-agencies-see-collapse-of-2014-winter-run-salmon/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>A rainless January reawakens drought fears\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It was an astonishing scene in the heart of winter — dozens of Pacifica residents rushing to grab whatever household valuables they could as flames raced down a coastal bluff toward their homes. 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And how it got there is a two-decade-old tale of local weather politics that still affects Bay Area forecasts to this day. \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_27386108/many-local-weather-experts-say-radar-is-simply\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Dust from feedlots and factory farms: Stinky, yucky -- and dangerous\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(Mother Jones)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Ever approached a feedlot teeming with thousands of cattle? Unlike industrialized hog and chicken farms, where huge enclosed buildings trap at least some of the smell, cattle feedlots are open-air—as anyone who has driven Highway 5 between Los Angeles and San Francisco can testify. Turns out, when you inhale the aroma, you're not just getting a blast of ammonia and other noxious fumes. You're also probably breathing in tiny particles of antibiotics, bacteria from cows' \"fecal matter and gut flora,\" and antibiotic-resistant gene sequences. \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2015/01/dust-factory-farms-antibiotic-resistant-genes\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Koch Brothers cash will swamp California political contests\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The billionaire Koch brothers’ intention to spend nearly $900 million on conservative candidates and causes in the 2016 election cycle will unleash a tidal wave of cash that will swamp the political landscape even in solidly blue California, experts said Tuesday. When it comes to spreading money around, the spending plan that industrialists Charles and David Koch unveiled Monday will put the brothers and an estimated 300 conservative mega-donors in their network on a plane now occupied only by the country’s two major political parties. \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Koch-brothers-cash-will-wash-over-California-6044288.php\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Hidden in plain sight: Santa Clara County counts its homeless\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(KQED News)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amid a historic boom, volunteers fan out to take a census of those who have no place to live but vacant lots and roadsides. \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/01/28/hidden-in-plain-view-santa-clara-county-counts-homeless/\" target=\"_blank\">Full story\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Stanford swimmer charged with raping unconscious women\u003c/strong> \u003cem>(San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/em>:\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A Stanford University student and star swimmer will be charged with rape after he met a woman at a campus party and assaulted her as she lay intoxicated and unconscious outside, Santa Clara County prosecutors said Tuesday. 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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\">L\u003c/span>ast weekend, I marched my husband and two kids around the corner, past bright green lawns to meet Burlingame neighbors. I asked the Argeris family if we could visit after reading an online community thread in which another neighbor posted pictures of his newly installed, 275-gallon rain-collection tank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nini Argeris responded, “I got you beat, Mike. We have four, 205-gallon Bushman tanks, and they are all full.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With my water consumption guilt as persistent as this drought, I had to see her cistern setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Argeris house was easy to spot -- it’s the only one on the block with a front yard filled with drought-tolerant plants. Nick and Nini Argeris led us to the back, while our kids and theirs dashed off to play hide and seek behind the vegetable planters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their rainwater-catching tank setup is as simple as a marble run. Water from the roof feeds to the gutter, to the downspout, to a flexible extension, to a PVC sewer pipe and into a barrel. Another three barrels are daisy-chained at the bottom with spa piping. A garden hose snakes out of the bottom of one of the barrels, pressured only from gravity and the water inside the barrel -- no electric pump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How long did it take to capture 820 gallons?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During that last big rain in December, it took less than an hour,” Nini Argeris said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Argeris says she stretched the water she collected early last year to nourish her vegetable garden all summer long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Instead of going in the gutters, it’s going into the tanks, into my vegetables and feeding my family,” she said. 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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