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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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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>\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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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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"content": "\u003cp>Amid recent rains, few sounds have been as disturbing to water conservationists as the \u003cem>whisk-whisk-whisk\u003c/em> of automatic lawn sprinklers kicking on directly behind TV reporters covering some of the state's first heavy downpours in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials are worried that the rain will give people an excuse to abandon the already inconsistent conservation efforts they've adopted to deal with the long drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"A deluge like this makes us feel, 'Oh, my God, it must be over,'\" said Felicia Marcus, chairwoman of the state Water Resources Control Board, which instituted monthly water-use reporting this year to bring home to Californians how much water they were using.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \"we are in a really deep hole ... and we have to act like we are in the drought of our lives.\" She said officials will \"keep working on it even after the drought because there's going to be another one around the bend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Tell them to turn off their damn sprinklers for a week. Tell them I said so. We're still in a drought.'\u003ccite>Bill Patzert,\u003cbr>\nNASA climatologist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The water board found last month that some well-off Southern California communities were still using more than 500 gallons per person a day — 10 times the amount used by less affluent and more water-conscious cities. Marcus and others pledged to step up education efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Climatologist Bill Patzert, a drought expert at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, rose at 3 a.m. last week to bask in the sound of rain from the first big storm to roll through Southern California in a long time. By dawn, he was glowering at television reports showing water-wasting automatic sprinklers whirring in the rain behind at the scene of mudslides and floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Tell them to turn off their damn sprinklers for a week. Tell them I said so,\" Patzert said. \"We're still in a drought.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/12/09/our-next-storm-very-windy-and-very-wet\" target=\"_blank\">Last week's big storm \u003c/a>brought up to 5 inches of rain to Southern California, more than 10 inches to some sites in Northern California and 6 feet of snow in the higher Sierras. The mountain snowpack surged, from just 24 percent of average at the start of December to\u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/snow/DLYSWEQ\" target=\"_blank\"> 47 percent of normal\u003c/a> on Wednesday, according to the Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The snow in the Sierras is all-important, providing the water supply for more than half of California, said Roger Bales, an expert in hydrology at the University of California-Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is one of many experts trying to spread the message that one or two rains don't end a drought. The key part of the rainy season — January, February and March — still lies ahead, Bales said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's too early in the season to predict we're going to have a wet, average, or dry year. Anything could happen,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This past summer, an estimated $2.2 billion in annual economic losses from lack of rain helped persuade state lawmakers to begin ending unregulated pumping of vital underground aquifers. California was one of the last states in the country that still allowed it. In the fall, voters approved $7.5 billion for water conservation and storage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California would need 11 trillion gallons of water to replenish its natural water stores, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/december/nasa-analysis-11-trillion-gallons-to-replenish-california-drought-losses/\" target=\"_blank\">a projection this week\u003c/a> from scientists using satellite data to analyze snowpack and groundwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It takes years to get into a drought of this severity, and it will likely take many more big storms, and years, to crawl out of it,\" Jay Famiglietti, another researcher at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even so, Fresno County farmer Paul Betancourt was feeling pretty good as he drove this week to his recently planted winter wheat fields. With just 3.3 inches of rain falling on his crop last year, Betancourt was forced to spend $40,000 expanding wells for his 756 acres. Using groundwater to water his fields left white rings of salt in the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With 2.7 inches falling already this winter, that salt is starting to wash away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Big improvement on last year,\" Betancourt said. \"Driving, it just looks much fresher. We had to order rain suits.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Can't resist one last update for the evening to pass along the National Weather Service's summary of the remarkable continuation of Thursday's semi-mind-boggling storm. Here's a key passage from the\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\"> NWS Bay Area forecast discussion\u003c/a> tonight (with Teletype-style all caps retained for emphasis):\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES TO FALL ACROSS THE REGION WITH RAINFALL RATES ANYWHERE FROM A TENTH TO A HALF INCH PER HOUR. HEAVIER HIT AREAS IN THE SANTA CRUZ MOUNTAINS AND THE SANTA LUCIA RANGE SAW RAINFALL RATES FROM 1 TO NEARLY 3 INCHES PER HOUR EARLIER TODAY. FLORES CAMP LOCATED IN THE SANTA LUCIA MOUNTAINS REPORTED 2.84 INCHES IN ONE HOUR FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER 1.56 INCHES THE NEXT HOUR. THIS PROMPTED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING NEAR BIG SUR THIS AFTERNOON. CONTINUED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN PROMPTED THE ISSUANCE OF NUMEROUS FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS AND URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORIES THROUGH THE EVENING HOURS.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"O9XCYmElkulu3ulnAMRJRPtnmea3b3Mk\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Did you catch that? One spot in the Santa Lucias -- the mountain range rising high above the Big Sur coast -- had 2.84 inches in one hour and 1.56 inches the next. Arithmetic: 4.40 inches in two hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For comparison, San Francisco has recorded 3.21 inches of rain for the day through 10 p.m. If I'm reading the weather records right, that makes it one of the five rainiest December days in the city's weather history going back to 1849. And down there in the Santa Lucias, almost that much fell in just 60 minutes. It's a little challenging to imagine the intensity, or the result in terms of runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5 p.m.:\u003c/strong> Today's storm has turned out to be everything weather forecasters and their computer models predicted, and more. The storm has brought widespread flooding to the Bay Area and blacked out more than 150,000 PG&E customers. And the weather system is showing some reluctance to move on, having stalled over the Central California coast, meaning moderate to heavy rain is continuing in much of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluge has caused hundreds of incidents of street and highway flooding from Sonoma County down to Santa Cruz County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the worst-hit locations was Healdsburg, on the Russian River about 65 miles north of San Francisco. Although the river has not exceeded flood stage, a downpour that began before dawn and lasted most of the morning led to street flooding in downtown and some other low-lying areas. For instance, this scene from a shopping center at the south end of downtown:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/antiinertia/status/543157414321991680\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> Extremely heavy throughout region. About 10 inches fell in the wettest locations in western Sonoma County. More than 4 inches fell in the Napa Valley and in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Urban locations from Santa Rosa south through most of the central Bay Area got between 2 and 5 inches.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wind: \u003c/strong>Wind gusted to 71 mph at Marin County hamlet of Woodacre. Gusts of 50 mph-plus recorded in many locations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Warnings:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">Flash flood watches are in effect\u003c/a> for the entire Bay Area through 4 a.m. Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Power:\u003c/strong> A total of 450,000 PG&E customers lost power since the storm began, nearly two-thirds of them in San Francisco. The utility says service has been restored to 99 percent of those affected. (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> Widespread inundation of Bay Area roadways, with hundreds of incidents of flooding, debris on the pavement and traffic accidents. (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--\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBARTalert\" target=\"_blank\">BART\u003c/a> suffered systemwide delays Thursday morning. San Bruno station closed during the morning rush hour because of flooding.\u003cbr>\n--\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">Muni\u003c/a>: Experienced major delays on some lines due to power outages. Loss of power also closed the Montgomery Muni/BART station from early morning through mid-afternoon Thursday.\u003cbr>\n--Ferries: Service suspended due to weather.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Airport impacts:\u003c/strong> 240 flights canceled at San Francisco International Airport. Arriving flights are now delayed an average of a little less than an hour. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.flysfo.com/flight-info/flight-status\" target=\"_blank\">SFO Flight Status page\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Schools: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>Closed:\u003c/em> Public schools in Novato will remain closed Friday, as will many districts in Sonoma County (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.scoe.org/storm-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">complete Sonoma County list)\u003c/a>. Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcoe.org/about-smcoe/news/2014/12/san-mateo-county-schools-storm-information.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo County schools\u003c/a> will also be closed.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>Open:\u003c/em> Schools in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, West Contra Costa, and other districts that canceled classes Thursday, are expected to be open Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Park closures:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/472\">28 state parks\u003c/a>, from Mendocino County down to the Central California coast, have been closed because of the storm.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As the dousing continues -- \u003ca href=\"http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=MUX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes\">weather radar\u003c/a> shows moderate to heavy rain continuing to stream into the central Bay Area and South Bay -- the weather service has posted a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ511&warncounty=CAC001&firewxzone=CAZ511&local_place1=4%20Miles%20W%20San%20Ramon%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&lat=37.76272&lon=-122.02311#.VIo14GRE6c8\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a> for the entire Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan Null, consulting meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services, said the storm's progress south through the region slowed to a crawl Thursday afternoon, as a \"wave\" -- a sort of secondary low-pressure center -- has formed along a cold front moving south across Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The wave has slowed it down, and now it's pretty much just sitting there,\" Null said. \"The super-intense stuff has passed, but this is not going anywhere anytime soon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, California's Office of Emergency Services is keeping an eye on the storm and flooding. Spokesman Kelly Huston said early Thursday that the agency is ready to handle even the most dangerous rescues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have been doing is planning on moving our resources for swift-water rescue teams into areas in which we think we'll have problems with flash-flooding,\" Huston said. \"And those teams are specially prepared to basically respond immediately to anybody who gets caught in these creeks and we need to pull them out of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the power situation, PG&E has not released its overall estimate of Bay Area outages since late Thursday morning, when the utility reported about 150,000 homes and businesses had been without power. The biggest number of outages was in San Francisco, where about 100,000 customers lost electricity as the heart of the storm hit the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a historical comparison, the big storm of January 2008 knocked out power to about 2 million customers. Another big storm in October 2010 put out the lights in about 1.2 million homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:15 a.m.:\u003c/strong> National Weather Service flash-flood warnings still cover much of the region from Sonoma County down to Santa Cruz County, virtually all of the Bay Area: Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing for the warnings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>North Bay counties: through 12:15 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alameda and Contra Costa counties: through 12:15 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties: through 1:45 p.m..\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco and northern San Mateo County: 9:30 a.m. (now expired)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It's possible the warnings will be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding has been reported throughout the region, but the North Bay appears to have been the hardest hit so far, with parts of downtown Healdsburg inundated. Sonoma State University has been closed for the day because of flooding on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E reports\u003c/a> the storm has knocked out power to about 150,000 Bay Area customers. The biggest and most disruptive outage is in San Francisco, where nearly 40,000 customers in a wide area from the Marina to the Financial District lost power about 7:20 a.m. About 50,000 other homes and businesses have been in the dark in scattered areas throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage prompted BART and Muni to close their stations at Montgomery Street. BART has also closed the San Bruno station because of flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A major power outage is affecting large sections of San Francisco, from the Marina into parts of the Financial District. That's prompted the closure of both the BART and Muni stations at Montgomery Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:20 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Extremely heavy rain is falling over southern Marin County and San Francisco, and \u003ca href=\"http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mux&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no\" target=\"_blank\">weather radar is showing\u003c/a> a swath of even more intense precipitation moving in from outside the Golden Gate. That's prompted the National Weather Service to issue \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=FFW&sid=mtr&version=0\">a flash flood warning\u003c/a> for Marin and southern Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warning includes San Rafael, Novato, Petaluma and Rohnert Park and will be in place until 10:15 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:50 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> It's here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the storm has dumped more than 5 inches of rain in the hills of western Sonoma County through 6 a.m. Santa Rosa has gotten 2.79 inches. Just to the south, Petaluma has recorded 1.93 inches and Novato 2.05 inches. In the Napa Valley, where the Napa River is expected to crest near flood stage, St. Helena has gotten 3.15 inches. The rain totals are dramatically lower in the central Bay Area, with most totals a quarter of an inch or lower. But, as forecast, the heaviest rain has only just arrived over San Francisco and the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the deluge moves south, winds gusting over 70 mph have knocked down trees and power lines. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E is reporting \u003c/a>scattered blackouts in the North Bay, East Bay and Silicon Valley -- with a total of about 20,000 customers affected before dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transportation impacts: 174 flights have been canceled at San Francisco International Airport this morning, about evenly split between arriving and departing flights. Morning ferry service from Oakland, Alameda and Vallejo to San Francisco has been suspended. High-wind warnings are in place for Bay Area bridges. On the plus side, the traffic volume on the Bay Bridge appears much lower than usual for the morning rush hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:25 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Our much-anticipated storm continues to move in over the California coast. Parts of Northern California, including the watersheds that feed into the state's massive reservoirs on the upper Sacramento, Feather and Trinity rivers, are already getting heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, parts of Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties have also recorded significant rainfall. Novato, in northern Marin, has seen .79 inches, and Point Reyes Station, in west Marin, has gotten .71 inches since early afternoon. Mount Veeder, on the west side of the Napa Valley, has gotten .87 of an inch; Angwin, on Howell Mountain on the valley's east side, has gotten .88. Farther north, Venado -- a site in the Sonoma County hills west of Healdsburg -- has gotten 1.20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, we've seen only a spattering of rain so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, forecasters say this evening's rain is just a precursor to a prolonged period of high winds and heavy rain beginning later tonight. A \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20wind%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">high wind warning\u003c/a> takes effect at 10 p.m. for virtually all of Northern California. Winds have been picking up this evening, with 30 mph gusts already recorded on Mount Tamalpais and at Las Trampas Ridge in Contra Costa County. The forecast calls for sustained winds of up to 35 mph at lower elevations with gusts over 50 mph. Elevations above 1,500 feet could see sustained winds of 50 mph with gusts over 80 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A period of extremely heavy rain is forecast to start around 4 a.m. in the North Bay and move south through the region, reaching the South Bay early in the afternoon. With 2 to 4 inches of rain expected in lowland locations and up to 8 inches in the mountains north and south of the bay, the NWS has also issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">a flash flood watch \u003c/a>covering the entire region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes without saying, almost, that the storm will affect travel throughout the Bay Area. With the strongest part of the storm still to come Wednesday night, some flights arriving at San Francisco International Airport are already experiencing delays of more than two hours. If the heart of the storm arrives as forecast early Thursday, the morning commute will be seriously disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the dire-sounding forecast, schools in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda will be closed Thursday, as well as several districts in the North Bay. San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco will also be closed for the day. (See NBC Bay Area's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Area-School-Closings-285399581.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive list of closures\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m.:\u003c/strong> We're going to have to check on the last time this happened: Public schools in San Francisco, Oakland and virtually all of Marin County have canceled classes Thursday because of the approaching storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures were announced Wednesday afternoon as heavy rain arrived over the lower Russian River watershed in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it's pouring,\" a Sonoma County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman in Guerneville said at 3 p.m. \"It's been going for about 45 minutes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say the heart of the windy, wet weather system is on track to roar into the North Bay Wednesday night and roll south through the Bay Area Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the disruption that school closures will cause for thousands of families, both Oakland and San Francisco officials said their primary concern was student and staff safety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> \"Closing schools is a serious decision,\" said SFUSD Superintendent Richard A. Carranza. \"I did not arrive at this lightly. First and foremost, we don't want to risk having our students injured or seriously delayed transporting to and from school. In addition to student absences, the storm could result in large numbers of staff absences, which could then lead to inadequate supervision of our students. Furthermore, power outages could affect the district's ability to feed students school meals, among many other operational challenges.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Oakland:\u003c/strong> \"What the National Weather Service refers to as a 'powerful Pacific storm' is expected to bring torrential rains, damaging winds and flash floods, peaking during the morning commute hours on Thursday. Approximately 5 inches of rain are expected from Wednesday evening through Thursday with gusts reaching up to 39 mph. Since this poses a significant safety risk for our students and staff, we’re canceling school as a precaution for Thursday. Other districts, like the neighboring San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and all Marin County public schools, have also taken the step.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> In less than two weeks, much of California has gone from anxiety over drought to worry about the possibility of widespread flooding. How did that happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, the rain that arrived at the end of November and concluded with heavy rain last Wednesday is the first part of the answer. While those storms didn't break the drought -- we'll need to keep saying that for a while -- they did bring enough precipitation to soak soils throughout much of the region. That means more water will run off when the next major weather system arrives, and flooding could result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, that major storm is on our doorstep. The National Weather Service says the system, driven by fierce jet stream winds and funneling moisture from the subtropical Pacific, will batter virtually all of Northern California with prolonged heavy rains and high winds. An exception to that statement: the Sierra Nevada above 6,000 feet elevation, where precipitation will be in the form of snow. Forecasters have posted \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=eka&wwa=blizzard%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">blizzard warnings\u003c/a> for the west slope of the mountains from Yosemite up to Mount Lassen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service has issued a full bouquet of other advisories, watches and warnings connected to the storm, including a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20wind%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">high wind warning\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20surf%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">a high surf advisory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chance of rain is forecast later today in much of Marin and Sonoma counties, around San Francisco and Oakland by 10 p.m., and early Thursday morning in San Jose. The main body of the storm is predicted to move through the region from early Thursday through late Thursday night. Periods of very heavy rain are forecast as a cold front moves through the Bay Area -- across the North Bay before dawn, the central Bay Area during the morning rush hour, and the South Bay during the early afternoon. Rainfall totals are expected to be in the 1.5- to 3.5-inch range in Bay Area cities and from 4 to 8 inches in mountains north and south of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas throughout Northern California will see enough rain that rivers and streams will rise to flood stage around midday Thursday. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a> says the Napa River will top flood stage at St. Helena and crest less than a foot below flood stage in downtown Napa. The Russian River is forecast to flood in Hopland, in southern Mendocino County, and in Sonoma County communities, including Guerneville. The rivers are predicted to rise and recede rapidly, dropping back below flood stage during the day on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wait -- we haven't told you about the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NWS says the highest likelihood of damaging winds will arrive as a cold front passes through the North Bay before dawn Thursday, into the central Bay Area by 7 a.m., and south along the coast and into the Santa Cruz Mountains by early afternoon. Forecasters say urban locations could see gusts of 40 to 55 mph. Gusts could hit 60 mph along the coast and 80 mph on ridges above 1,000 feet in elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters are comparing the potential impact of the imminent heavy weather to two relatively recent storms: one that struck Jan. 4, 2008, and another that hit Oct. 13, 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Jan Null \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.com/basi.htm\" target=\"_blank\">rates both those storms\u003c/a> among the strongest to hit the Bay Area since the 1950s. What sorts of effects did they have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Iconic-tree-in-S-F-s-Golden-Gate-Park-among-many-3232136.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> at the time that the January 2008 storm blew down \"hundreds, if not thousands\" of trees within the city limits. And, also according to the Chron, high winds and downed trees throughout the region \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-s-blacked-out-users-during-storm-might-be-3232003.php\" target=\"_blank\">knocked out power \u003c/a>to as many as 2.1 million PG&E customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The October 2009 storm blacked out more than 1.2 million utility customers, t\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/05/us/05calif.html?_r=1&\" target=\"_blank\">he New York Times reported\u003c/a>, adding this portrait of chaos by the bay:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Several major Bay Area roads, including Highway 101 and Interstate 580, were closed for much of the day by airborne construction materials and overturned vehicles, including five trucks that flipped on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, a major east-west thoroughfare spanning a northern finger of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A downed tree on the tracks stopped BART rail service in the Mission District of San Francisco, sending evacuated passengers into the rain or onto buses. Morning ferry services across the bay were canceled as docked boats rocked like rubber ducks in a bath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scaffolding collapsed, breaking windows, taking down power lines and bringing electrically powered buses to a halt along at least one major San Francisco boulevard. People trying to make it to work dodged flying trash cans, orphaned umbrellas and dislocated newspaper vending machines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dozens of flights were canceled at the San Francisco airport, where winds topped 65 miles an hour at midmorning, making for even more flight delays than cancellations. Harrowing whitecaps from the bay lapped at the foot of the runways.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluge has caused hundreds of incidents of street and highway flooding from Sonoma County down to Santa Cruz County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the worst-hit locations was Healdsburg, on the Russian River about 65 miles north of San Francisco. Although the river has not exceeded flood stage, a downpour that began before dawn and lasted most of the morning led to street flooding in downtown and some other low-lying areas. For instance, this scene from a shopping center at the south end of downtown:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The Storm at a Glance\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Rain:\u003c/strong> Extremely heavy throughout region. About 10 inches fell in the wettest locations in western Sonoma County. More than 4 inches fell in the Napa Valley and in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Urban locations from Santa Rosa south through most of the central Bay Area got between 2 and 5 inches.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Wind: \u003c/strong>Wind gusted to 71 mph at Marin County hamlet of Woodacre. Gusts of 50 mph-plus recorded in many locations.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Warnings:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">Flash flood watches are in effect\u003c/a> for the entire Bay Area through 4 a.m. Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Power:\u003c/strong> A total of 450,000 PG&E customers lost power since the storm began, nearly two-thirds of them in San Francisco. The utility says service has been restored to 99 percent of those affected. (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> Widespread inundation of Bay Area roadways, with hundreds of incidents of flooding, debris on the pavement and traffic accidents. (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--\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFBARTalert\" target=\"_blank\">BART\u003c/a> suffered systemwide delays Thursday morning. San Bruno station closed during the morning rush hour because of flooding.\u003cbr>\n--\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sfmta_muni\" target=\"_blank\">Muni\u003c/a>: Experienced major delays on some lines due to power outages. Loss of power also closed the Montgomery Muni/BART station from early morning through mid-afternoon Thursday.\u003cbr>\n--Ferries: Service suspended due to weather.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Airport impacts:\u003c/strong> 240 flights canceled at San Francisco International Airport. Arriving flights are now delayed an average of a little less than an hour. (See \u003ca href=\"http://www.flysfo.com/flight-info/flight-status\" target=\"_blank\">SFO Flight Status page\u003c/a>)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Schools: \u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>Closed:\u003c/em> Public schools in Novato will remain closed Friday, as will many districts in Sonoma County (see \u003ca href=\"http://www.scoe.org/storm-update.html\" target=\"_blank\">complete Sonoma County list)\u003c/a>. Some \u003ca href=\"http://www.smcoe.org/about-smcoe/news/2014/12/san-mateo-county-schools-storm-information.html\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo County schools\u003c/a> will also be closed.\u003cbr>\n--\u003cem>Open:\u003c/em> Schools in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, West Contra Costa, and other districts that canceled classes Thursday, are expected to be open Friday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Park closures:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/NewsRelease/472\">28 state parks\u003c/a>, from Mendocino County down to the Central California coast, have been closed because of the storm.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As the dousing continues -- \u003ca href=\"http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=MUX&product=NCR&overlay=11101111&loop=yes\">weather radar\u003c/a> shows moderate to heavy rain continuing to stream into the central Bay Area and South Bay -- the weather service has posted a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ511&warncounty=CAC001&firewxzone=CAZ511&local_place1=4%20Miles%20W%20San%20Ramon%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Watch&lat=37.76272&lon=-122.02311#.VIo14GRE6c8\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a> for the entire Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jan Null, consulting meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services, said the storm's progress south through the region slowed to a crawl Thursday afternoon, as a \"wave\" -- a sort of secondary low-pressure center -- has formed along a cold front moving south across Central California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The wave has slowed it down, and now it's pretty much just sitting there,\" Null said. \"The super-intense stuff has passed, but this is not going anywhere anytime soon.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sacramento, California's Office of Emergency Services is keeping an eye on the storm and flooding. Spokesman Kelly Huston said early Thursday that the agency is ready to handle even the most dangerous rescues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we have been doing is planning on moving our resources for swift-water rescue teams into areas in which we think we'll have problems with flash-flooding,\" Huston said. \"And those teams are specially prepared to basically respond immediately to anybody who gets caught in these creeks and we need to pull them out of it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to the power situation, PG&E has not released its overall estimate of Bay Area outages since late Thursday morning, when the utility reported about 150,000 homes and businesses had been without power. The biggest number of outages was in San Francisco, where about 100,000 customers lost electricity as the heart of the storm hit the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a historical comparison, the big storm of January 2008 knocked out power to about 2 million customers. Another big storm in October 2010 put out the lights in about 1.2 million homes and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:15 a.m.:\u003c/strong> National Weather Service flash-flood warnings still cover much of the region from Sonoma County down to Santa Cruz County, virtually all of the Bay Area: Sonoma, Napa, Marin, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The timing for the warnings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>North Bay counties: through 12:15 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Alameda and Contra Costa counties: through 12:15 p.m.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Monterey counties: through 1:45 p.m..\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>San Francisco and northern San Mateo County: 9:30 a.m. (now expired)\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>It's possible the warnings will be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding has been reported throughout the region, but the North Bay appears to have been the hardest hit so far, with parts of downtown Healdsburg inundated. Sonoma State University has been closed for the day because of flooding on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meantime, \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E reports\u003c/a> the storm has knocked out power to about 150,000 Bay Area customers. The biggest and most disruptive outage is in San Francisco, where nearly 40,000 customers in a wide area from the Marina to the Financial District lost power about 7:20 a.m. About 50,000 other homes and businesses have been in the dark in scattered areas throughout the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outage prompted BART and Muni to close their stations at Montgomery Street. BART has also closed the San Bruno station because of flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:40 a.m.:\u003c/strong> A major power outage is affecting large sections of San Francisco, from the Marina into parts of the Financial District. That's prompted the closure of both the BART and Muni stations at Montgomery Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:20 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Extremely heavy rain is falling over southern Marin County and San Francisco, and \u003ca href=\"http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=mux&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=no\" target=\"_blank\">weather radar is showing\u003c/a> a swath of even more intense precipitation moving in from outside the Golden Gate. That's prompted the National Weather Service to issue \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=FFW&sid=mtr&version=0\">a flash flood warning\u003c/a> for Marin and southern Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warning includes San Rafael, Novato, Petaluma and Rohnert Park and will be in place until 10:15 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6:50 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> It's here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the storm has dumped more than 5 inches of rain in the hills of western Sonoma County through 6 a.m. Santa Rosa has gotten 2.79 inches. Just to the south, Petaluma has recorded 1.93 inches and Novato 2.05 inches. In the Napa Valley, where the Napa River is expected to crest near flood stage, St. Helena has gotten 3.15 inches. The rain totals are dramatically lower in the central Bay Area, with most totals a quarter of an inch or lower. But, as forecast, the heaviest rain has only just arrived over San Francisco and the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the deluge moves south, winds gusting over 70 mph have knocked down trees and power lines. \u003ca href=\"http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/\" target=\"_blank\">PG&E is reporting \u003c/a>scattered blackouts in the North Bay, East Bay and Silicon Valley -- with a total of about 20,000 customers affected before dawn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transportation impacts: 174 flights have been canceled at San Francisco International Airport this morning, about evenly split between arriving and departing flights. Morning ferry service from Oakland, Alameda and Vallejo to San Francisco has been suspended. High-wind warnings are in place for Bay Area bridges. On the plus side, the traffic volume on the Bay Bridge appears much lower than usual for the morning rush hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:25 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Our much-anticipated storm continues to move in over the California coast. Parts of Northern California, including the watersheds that feed into the state's massive reservoirs on the upper Sacramento, Feather and Trinity rivers, are already getting heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, parts of Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties have also recorded significant rainfall. Novato, in northern Marin, has seen .79 inches, and Point Reyes Station, in west Marin, has gotten .71 inches since early afternoon. Mount Veeder, on the west side of the Napa Valley, has gotten .87 of an inch; Angwin, on Howell Mountain on the valley's east side, has gotten .88. Farther north, Venado -- a site in the Sonoma County hills west of Healdsburg -- has gotten 1.20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, we've seen only a spattering of rain so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember, forecasters say this evening's rain is just a precursor to a prolonged period of high winds and heavy rain beginning later tonight. A \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20wind%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">high wind warning\u003c/a> takes effect at 10 p.m. for virtually all of Northern California. Winds have been picking up this evening, with 30 mph gusts already recorded on Mount Tamalpais and at Las Trampas Ridge in Contra Costa County. The forecast calls for sustained winds of up to 35 mph at lower elevations with gusts over 50 mph. Elevations above 1,500 feet could see sustained winds of 50 mph with gusts over 80 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A period of extremely heavy rain is forecast to start around 4 a.m. in the North Bay and move south through the region, reaching the South Bay early in the afternoon. With 2 to 4 inches of rain expected in lowland locations and up to 8 inches in the mountains north and south of the bay, the NWS has also issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">a flash flood watch \u003c/a>covering the entire region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It goes without saying, almost, that the storm will affect travel throughout the Bay Area. With the strongest part of the storm still to come Wednesday night, some flights arriving at San Francisco International Airport are already experiencing delays of more than two hours. If the heart of the storm arrives as forecast early Thursday, the morning commute will be seriously disrupted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to the dire-sounding forecast, schools in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda will be closed Thursday, as well as several districts in the North Bay. San Francisco State University and City College of San Francisco will also be closed for the day. (See NBC Bay Area's \u003ca href=\"http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Bay-Area-School-Closings-285399581.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand\" target=\"_blank\">comprehensive list of closures\u003c/a>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3 p.m.:\u003c/strong> We're going to have to check on the last time this happened: Public schools in San Francisco, Oakland and virtually all of Marin County have canceled classes Thursday because of the approaching storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The closures were announced Wednesday afternoon as heavy rain arrived over the lower Russian River watershed in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Yeah, it's pouring,\" a Sonoma County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman in Guerneville said at 3 p.m. \"It's been going for about 45 minutes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say the heart of the windy, wet weather system is on track to roar into the North Bay Wednesday night and roll south through the Bay Area Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acknowledging the disruption that school closures will cause for thousands of families, both Oakland and San Francisco officials said their primary concern was student and staff safety:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> \"Closing schools is a serious decision,\" said SFUSD Superintendent Richard A. Carranza. \"I did not arrive at this lightly. First and foremost, we don't want to risk having our students injured or seriously delayed transporting to and from school. In addition to student absences, the storm could result in large numbers of staff absences, which could then lead to inadequate supervision of our students. Furthermore, power outages could affect the district's ability to feed students school meals, among many other operational challenges.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Oakland:\u003c/strong> \"What the National Weather Service refers to as a 'powerful Pacific storm' is expected to bring torrential rains, damaging winds and flash floods, peaking during the morning commute hours on Thursday. Approximately 5 inches of rain are expected from Wednesday evening through Thursday with gusts reaching up to 39 mph. Since this poses a significant safety risk for our students and staff, we’re canceling school as a precaution for Thursday. Other districts, like the neighboring San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and all Marin County public schools, have also taken the step.\"\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> In less than two weeks, much of California has gone from anxiety over drought to worry about the possibility of widespread flooding. How did that happen?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, the rain that arrived at the end of November and concluded with heavy rain last Wednesday is the first part of the answer. While those storms didn't break the drought -- we'll need to keep saying that for a while -- they did bring enough precipitation to soak soils throughout much of the region. That means more water will run off when the next major weather system arrives, and flooding could result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, that major storm is on our doorstep. The National Weather Service says the system, driven by fierce jet stream winds and funneling moisture from the subtropical Pacific, will batter virtually all of Northern California with prolonged heavy rains and high winds. An exception to that statement: the Sierra Nevada above 6,000 feet elevation, where precipitation will be in the form of snow. Forecasters have posted \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=eka&wwa=blizzard%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">blizzard warnings\u003c/a> for the west slope of the mountains from Yosemite up to Mount Lassen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service has issued a full bouquet of other advisories, watches and warnings connected to the storm, including a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watch\u003c/a>, a \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20wind%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">high wind warning\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20surf%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">a high surf advisory\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A chance of rain is forecast later today in much of Marin and Sonoma counties, around San Francisco and Oakland by 10 p.m., and early Thursday morning in San Jose. The main body of the storm is predicted to move through the region from early Thursday through late Thursday night. Periods of very heavy rain are forecast as a cold front moves through the Bay Area -- across the North Bay before dawn, the central Bay Area during the morning rush hour, and the South Bay during the early afternoon. Rainfall totals are expected to be in the 1.5- to 3.5-inch range in Bay Area cities and from 4 to 8 inches in mountains north and south of San Francisco Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas throughout Northern California will see enough rain that rivers and streams will rise to flood stage around midday Thursday. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a> says the Napa River will top flood stage at St. Helena and crest less than a foot below flood stage in downtown Napa. The Russian River is forecast to flood in Hopland, in southern Mendocino County, and in Sonoma County communities, including Guerneville. The rivers are predicted to rise and recede rapidly, dropping back below flood stage during the day on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But wait -- we haven't told you about the wind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NWS says the highest likelihood of damaging winds will arrive as a cold front passes through the North Bay before dawn Thursday, into the central Bay Area by 7 a.m., and south along the coast and into the Santa Cruz Mountains by early afternoon. Forecasters say urban locations could see gusts of 40 to 55 mph. Gusts could hit 60 mph along the coast and 80 mph on ridges above 1,000 feet in elevation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters are comparing the potential impact of the imminent heavy weather to two relatively recent storms: one that struck Jan. 4, 2008, and another that hit Oct. 13, 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Jan Null \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.com/basi.htm\" target=\"_blank\">rates both those storms\u003c/a> among the strongest to hit the Bay Area since the 1950s. What sorts of effects did they have?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Iconic-tree-in-S-F-s-Golden-Gate-Park-among-many-3232136.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> at the time that the January 2008 storm blew down \"hundreds, if not thousands\" of trees within the city limits. And, also according to the Chron, high winds and downed trees throughout the region \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PG-E-s-blacked-out-users-during-storm-might-be-3232003.php\" target=\"_blank\">knocked out power \u003c/a>to as many as 2.1 million PG&E customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With a drought continuing to punish California, cities across Santa Clara County are expanding their use of recycled water to irrigate parks. But the water-saving step may put a local icon at risk: redwood trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Redwoods have long been an important part of the Peninsula's identity. The city of Palo Alto is named after El Palo Alto, the ancient redwood under which the explorer Gaspar de Portola camped in 1769. Redwood City, of course, draws its name from the species. But the emphasis cities are placing on conserving water -- especially during a time of drought -- could threaten the species’ prevalence in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'In one way or another, redwoods are going to fade from our Bay Area landscapes.'\u003ccite>Nelda Matheny, arborist\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The fog-filled coastal habitats where the trees customarily grow provide them with water that has low levels of salt. 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Though none of the parks the city irrigates with recycled water contain redwood trees, city workers have been applying recycled water to a small stand of redwoods on a test plot for a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YC74eJYgwrdgjhNjGN9wQdXK00ys2c7H\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The redwoods irrigated with recycled water look as healthy as adjacent redwoods that the city irrigates with drinking water, says Phil Bobel, Palo Alto’s assistant director of public works. High soil quality and high water tables can be factors in helping redwoods grow well when watered with recycled water, said Paul Heiple, a California Native Plant Society representative. If either of these conditions exist at the test plot, they could be helping the redwoods thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experiment comes as Palo Alto is working on a plan to irrigate the Stanford Research Park, which contains redwood trees, with recycled water starting as early as 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View could try a number of solutions to restore its redwoods’ health, experts say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is working with Palo Alto, which draws its recycled water from the same facility, to decrease salt levels 20 percent, to 600 parts per million, according to Elizabeth Flegel, Mountain View’s water conservation coordinator. Another option is using Santa Clara County’s new Silicon Valley Advanced Water Purification Center, which came online this summer and can reduce salt levels to 500 parts per million. But officials from both Palo Alto and Mountain View are unlikely to use the plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though it’s counterintuitive, they could also irrigate the trees with more recycled water, Matheny explained. Giving each tree 20 to 25 percent more water than it needs could help flush extra salt out of the soil so it doesn’t accumulate and affect the trees’ roots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could also water the trees with drinking water occasionally, which would help flush salt out of the soil. During non-drought years, winter rains usually have this effect. 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"content": "\u003cp>Groups of California farmers have been struggling to survive the state’s epic drought, and this year one group has started to lose the fight. Fresno County’s Hmong refugee producers are some of the state’s newest and most disadvantaged farmers -- and they cannot afford the water necessary to keep their businesses going. Emergency loans are available from the government but, as many are discovering, the help is often too little too late.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Drying wells and shrinking bank accounts\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the many vendors at Fresno County farmers markets, Hmong grower May Vu is kind of famous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They call her ‘May Flowers’ for all the flowers that she’s grown,” explains Jon Thao, an advocate for the area’s Hmong farmers and a distant relative of Vu. Both Vu and Thao are standing in a field off Highway 41, pointing out the sunflowers that mark the beginning of Vu’s plot of land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the past, [Vu] had 11 acres, so you can imagine ... it’s kind of hard,” says Thao.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/180180192\" 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>Vu was leasing 11 acres in the spring -- enough to bring in $2,000 a week. She grew flowers, broccoli, cilantro, green onion and Asian crops like sinqua and bitter melon. But early this summer, Vu’s well started to dry up. She was getting less water at a higher price, and producing fewer crops of worse quality. So her only option was to downsize from 11 acres to 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">Farming was the main skill this refugee population brought from Laos in the ‘70s and ‘80s - and it's still one of the few ways families can climb out of poverty.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Chukou Thao, executive director of National Hmong American Farmers, says it was around June when he got a call for help from Vu. Thao’s organization, which primarily advocates for refugee farmers from Laos, had already been receiving panicked calls from other local growers at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were thinking that maybe it’s just the pump. Maybe the pump went out,” recalls Thao. That was before he started to realize that too many pumps were failing for too many farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s one, two, three, 50-plus farmers whose pumps have gone out,” Thao says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fifty farmers are a tiny fraction of Fresno County’s 2,500 Hmong producers, but Thao says they are the worst off. Farming was the main skill that this refugee population brought from Laos in the '70s and '80s. Today, it is still one of the few ways families are able to climb out of poverty. So it is not surprising that the Hmong tend to invest their life savings on the harvest each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the wells go dry, so do their bank accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Financial aid, just out of reach\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the summer, May Vu had decided to dig her well deeper on what was then her 5-acre farm. The dig had a price tag of $7,000 -- a fraction of the million-dollar wells some big farms have been putting in -- but still an amount she could not really afford. So Vu tried to get some financial help from the local offices of the USDA Farm Service Agency, or FSA. There was just one problem: Vu did not own her land -- a requirement for receiving aid from the FSA’s Emergency Farm Loan program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Thao, about 80 percent of Hmong growers in the Central Valley lease their land. So even though the FSA offers emergency loans to help farmers survive disasters like the state’s three-year drought, many farmers like Vu are not able to access them. Those who can are not guaranteed to get the loan when they need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Oosterman, farm loan chief for the state’s FSA, is sympathetic to farmers hit hard by the drought. However, approving loan applications takes time, he says. Evaluating an application can take a loan officer up to 60 days and is just the first step in the review process. In total, getting a loan request approved can take up to four months -- which Thao of National Hmong American Farmers finds frustrating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say they needed $10,000 to fix their pump so that they can get water,” says Thao. “So maybe the crop goes one week without water, right? By the time they got the money, there’s nothing left.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Relying on the rain\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>May Vu did not get help from the FSA, but she was able to persuade her landowner to split the cost of digging the well deeper on her 5-acre farm. And for a few weeks in September and October, water flowed again. But then, just like before, the well ran dry. So she packed up her things and moved to an available acre on her brother’s property. Now Vu earns about $200 per week -- down from the days of $2,000 per week. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=\"oqvXf1ad6GiTodsQygvjXkmJENzZelf0\"]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Final update, 10:15 a.m. Wednesday (Dec. 3):\u003c/strong> Just catching up on our December Deluge. Overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, the storm performed as forecast, hitting the North Bay particularly hard. Novato, in northern Marin, got about 4½ inches overnight. But there were rain totals well over an inch throughout the Bay Area. And coming after Tuesday's dousing and a high tide that occurred at the height of the morning commute, the storm led to widespread flooding of highways and viaducts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meteorologist Jan Null \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.posthaven.com/biggest-2-day-and-3-day-rain-events-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">reported early Wednesday\u003c/a> that San Francisco's rainfall since early Tuesday -- 2.97 inches at midmorning and counting -- was the highest two-day total in at least five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">Selected Bay Area rainfall totals from 10 p.m. Tuesday-10 a.m. Wednesday:\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Location\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Amount (inches)\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Novato\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3.62\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mount Veeder\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3.54\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Ben Lomond\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3.18\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Bruno Mountain\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>3.15\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mount Umunhum\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>2.36\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mount Diablo\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.80\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Palo Alto\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.78\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Redwood City\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.49\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.41\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco International Airport\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.27\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oakland\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.26\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mineta-San Jose International Airport\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.96\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Jose\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>0.75\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">The complete California precipitation report\u003c/a> by way of NOAA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>As we noted last night, the storm was a little slow and a little sparse in bringing rain to the state's biggest reservoirs -- Shasta Lake on the upper Sacramento River system, and Lake Oroville on the Feather River. That changed overnight, with many locations in the Shasta drainage getting close to an inch of rain and sites above Lake Oroville getting close to 2 inches. In context, that's far from a historic rainfall. But it could help the reservoirs begin to make up their drought deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To conclude, for now, here's a Storify pulling together social media reporting on the storm so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/at-long-last-rain/embed?header=false&border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"//storify.com/kqednews/at-long-last-rain\" target=\"_blank\">View the story \"Major Storm Brings Heavy Rains to Bay Area\" on Storify\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m.: Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The Bay Area's in the midst of a break from the steady rain that fouled up the morning commute and prompted a flood advisory for the region earlier in the day. But the storm that rolled ashore just after midnight Tuesday morning is not done. Forecasters say that rain will return later this evening and continue much of Wednesday. Mountains in the North Bay and south of Silicon Valley, which have already gotten 2 inches of rain or more, will see another 2 to 3 inches. Lowland areas on the coast and near San Francisco Bay, which have gotten between 1 and 1.8 inches today, could get another inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service also says that winds will pick up later Tuesday evening. That raises the possibility that drought-stressed trees now standing in saturated soils could topple.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"aligncenter\">Selected Bay Area rainfall totals from midnight-4 p.m. Tuesday:\n\u003ctable>\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Location\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>Amount (inches)\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Redwood City\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.80\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Ben Lomond\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.70\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mount Umunhum\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.66\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco International Airport\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.55\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Mill Valley\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.54\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>St. Mary's College-Moraga\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.53\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Castro Valley\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.53\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>San Francisco\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.45\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Palo Alto\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>1.30\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=SFORR5RSA&wfo=mtr&version=0\" target=\"_blank\">The complete California precipitation report\u003c/a> by way of NOAA's \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://ggweather.posthaven.com/wettest-sf-day-since\" target=\"_blank\">statistics from meteorologist Jan Null\u003c/a>, Tuesday has been San Francisco's fourth-rainiest day since early 2009, before the current drought began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As forecast Monday, the highest rainfall totals Tuesday were recorded far to the south of the Bay Area. Some mountain sites in Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties reported more than 2 inches of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you're thinking about the impact of the current round of storms on the state's overall drought and water storage picture -- and who isn't -- it's worth mentioning that the areas feeding into California's giant Northern California reservoirs have gotten comparatively modest amounts of rain. Through 4 p.m., less than half an inch of rain had fallen in the Shasta Lake drainage. The highest amounts recorded so far in the watershed above Lake Oroville, which has been rising slowly in the wake of recent storms, are just over half an inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/179707439\" 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>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:55 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> This morning's heavy rain has prompted the National Weather Service's regional forecast office in Monterey to issue \u003ca href=\"http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/weather/alertinfo/19615093\" target=\"_blank\">a flood advisory for the entire Bay Area\u003c/a> through 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. This is *not* a warning about a major flood event, but advice that we're likely to see ponding or flooding on roads and in low-lying areas with poor drainage. Also possible: mud and rock slides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>[contextly_sidebar id=\"wRGbRCJjri863u3fphj5MRfhagPkVMfQ\"]\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:40 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The much-anticipated storm rolled into the Bay Area just after midnight Tuesday morning and has kept up a steady pounding rain for several hours. In the storm's early hours, anyway, the state's heaviest rain totals appeared to be on the San Francisco Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 7 a.m., rainfall totals from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\">NOAA's California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a> showed Redwood City with 1.29 inches, San Francisco International Airport with 1.17, and \"downtown\" San Francisco -- actually \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-12-02T15:02:04+00:00\">Mission Dolores\u003c/del> the U.S. Mint at Market and Buchanan streets -- with 1.05. St. Mary's College in Moraga, one of the East Bay's consistently rainiest spots, recorded an even 1 inch. Palo Alto has been the rainiest spot in the South Bay so far with .95 of an inch. We'll update totals for the region as the morning goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, the storm is creating problems for both short-distance and long-haul travelers. The California Highway Patrol has reported dozens of traffic incidents in the early part of the morning commute, including a car that somehow managed to crash onto the sidewalk on the west side of the Golden Gate Bridge (that's the side facing the ocean -- the side that's generally closed to pedestrians). The rain and low cloud ceilings have also caused incoming flights into SFO to be delayed by almost four hours, according to the FAA and airport officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CaraSFBay/status/539817507721187328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:40 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Well, the rainy weekend is over and the sun has returned. Next up: a wetter and windier storm that should arrive in the Bay Area Tuesday morning -- and deliver a real deluge to much of Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/FXC/wxstory.php?wfo=mtr\" target=\"_blank\">The National Weather Service says\u003c/a> the storm could bring about an inch and a third of rain to San Jose, 2 inches in San Francisco and 2.5 inches in San Rafael and Santa Rosa by late Wednesday. Forecasters say higher totals will fall in the Santa Cruz Mountains and upland areas of the North Bay. The storm will also feature winds gusting up to 40 mph near the coast and in the region's hills. Isolated thunderstorms are also possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say the incoming storm will tap into an \"atmospheric river,\" a plume of very moist air, wafting up from the subtropical Pacific. The weather system is expected to hit Southern California dead-on and has prompted the National Weather Service to post \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sgx&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">a flash flood watch\u003c/a> for extensive areas of San Diego, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Ventura and Kern counties. Watches have also been posted for burn areas near Yosemite and for the area near September's King Fire west of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says the storm could deliver as much as half an inch of rain an hour Tuesday to mountainous areas of Southern California. The Santa Lucia Mountains, stretching along the Big Sur coast and south, are also expected to get very heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=winter%20storm%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">forecast to dump heavy snow\u003c/a> throughout the Sierra Nevada, with 2 feet or more expected above 7,000 feet or so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the weekend, hills and mountains south and north of San Francisco Bay saw the most rain, with the highest reported total Monday morning being 4.22 inches on Mount Hamilton. Several locations in the Santa Cruz Mountains and in the hills of the Russian River drainage in Sonoma County got more than 3 inches. Here's the NWS regional rainfall report with three-day storm totals for dozens of locations through Monday morning:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"//www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?wfo=mtr&pil=PNS&sid=MTR&version=0\">Public Information Statement: 3-Day Rainfall Reports\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (Friday, Nov. 28):\u003c/strong> Admit it: You spend a fair amount of time paying lip service to the drought, or even putting some effort into conserving water. Then when a storm finally interrupts some really nice weather, you're all, \"Man, I wish it wasn't raining.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Well, prepare to have whatever your outdoor plans were for this weekend interrupted. Because the most significant rainstorm in the Bay Area this season is now approaching Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says rain will hit Sonoma and Napa counties later today and spread to the rest of the region Saturday. The storm will be moderate to heavy, and is the first in a series of \"rain events,\" as the NWS puts it, over the next five-six days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Motorists are cautioned to slow down, as driving could be difficult this weekend and through the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diana Henderson, NWS forecaster for the San Francisco Bay Area/Monterey, said the precipitation will occur on and off through most of next week, and that we should see a decent downpour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's definitely the strongest one we've had so far,\" she said. \"And, we'll have the heavier precipitation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Henderson said the NWS expects gusty winds sometime around Wednesday. Those high winds and the most rain are expected mainly in high-elevation spots like Mount Tamalpais and Mount Diablo, as well as the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The upcoming storm will have slightly more impact on the drought than the smaller ones that hit the region in recent weeks, Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eighty percent of \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/science/series/california-drought-watch/\" target=\"_blank\">California\u003c/a> is experiencing \"extreme drought,\" and in the better part of the state, drought conditions are designated as \"exceptional,\" the driest level on the drought scale.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Mountains in the North Bay and south of Silicon Valley, which have already gotten 2 inches of rain or more, will see another 2 to 3 inches. Lowland areas on the coast and near San Francisco Bay, which have gotten between 1 and 1.8 inches today, could get another inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service also says that winds will pick up later Tuesday evening. 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In the storm's early hours, anyway, the state's heaviest rain totals appeared to be on the San Francisco Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 7 a.m., rainfall totals from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\">NOAA's California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a> showed Redwood City with 1.29 inches, San Francisco International Airport with 1.17, and \"downtown\" San Francisco -- actually \u003cdel datetime=\"2014-12-02T15:02:04+00:00\">Mission Dolores\u003c/del> the U.S. Mint at Market and Buchanan streets -- with 1.05. St. Mary's College in Moraga, one of the East Bay's consistently rainiest spots, recorded an even 1 inch. Palo Alto has been the rainiest spot in the South Bay so far with .95 of an inch. We'll update totals for the region as the morning goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yes, the storm is creating problems for both short-distance and long-haul travelers. 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