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However, they foreshadow a far wetter future for the city on the bay because of sea level rise caused by human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018232\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows onto the sidewalk during a high king tide at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“King tides are a very helpful visual representation of what our shoreline is likely to look like every single day in the not very distant future,” said Annie Kohut Frankel, manager of the California King Tides Project at the California Coastal Commission. “They are a warning more than a problem yet, but hopefully, we will listen to that warning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, that warning came in the form of bay water gushing onto the sidewalk on the Embarcadero, forcing people to walk around the waves. The king tides reached around 7.36 feet in San Francisco, according to the commission, which encourages people to \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/#:~:text=The%20next%20California%20King%20Tide,December%2013%2D15%2C%202024.&text=Sign%20up%20to%20receive%20email,the%20highest%20tides%20of%20today.\">capture and submit photos of flooding\u003c/a> this weekend. But Forbes noted that seas are projected to rise several feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means every time a king tide occurs in the not-so-distant future, the impact on the city will be compounded. Plus, Forbes said the flooding could be even worse if tides occur during a flood-inducing atmospheric river or a smaller storm like the one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017880/bay-area-braces-quadruple-threat-rain-wind-surf-king-tides\">bearing down on Northern California\u003c/a> this weekend with heavy rain, strong wind and high surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows onto the sidewalk during a high king tide at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A king tide gives us an idea of what is coming in the future,” she said. “Right now, it’s infrequent flooding, but it will become intermittent to frequent flooding over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes is particularly worried about the area that floods today. To the naked eye, this area several hundred feet southeast of the Ferry Building looks like a pedestrian path and road next to the bay. But underneath the paved ground is a Muni portal, where trains enter the underground system, including BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along the Embarcadero during a high king tide in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This area is the most at-risk segment of the city’s seawall for future sea level rise. As seas rise and storms intensify, the promenade and railing could fail, and flooding could cause regular road shutdowns and damage the train system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water would overtop and move right in and over into those tracks and down into the system,” Forbes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley professor Kristina Hill, a leading sea level rise scientist, said San Francisco’s current seawall is “a joke” because it was built quickly out of rubble, rocks, posts and concrete during the gold rush era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017880 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-21-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is kind of an unusually fragile seawall for a city of this size,” she said. “There are even ships that were scuttled in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term fix from the port and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers aims to reinvent 7.5 miles of the bayside shoreline at a cost of more than $13 billion. The draft plan for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfport.com/wrp/usace\">San Francisco Waterfront Flood Study\u003c/a>, released last year by the port, includes rebuilding the seawall — which would help stop water from harming the train system — and raising structures. The final report is tentatively set for public release in early 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfport.com/files/2023-04/Embarcadero%20Early%20Projects_Downtown%20Coastal%20Resilience_2023Q1_Update.pdf\"> Downtown Coastal Resilience Project\u003c/a> could potentially raise the shoreline and put in new protective railings and deployable structures to block water at a cost of more than $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, the port will select a consultant to complete the concept and detailed design. 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The king tides reached around 7.36 feet in San Francisco, according to the commission, which encourages people to \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/#:~:text=The%20next%20California%20King%20Tide,December%2013%2D15%2C%202024.&text=Sign%20up%20to%20receive%20email,the%20highest%20tides%20of%20today.\">capture and submit photos of flooding\u003c/a> this weekend. But Forbes noted that seas are projected to rise several feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means every time a king tide occurs in the not-so-distant future, the impact on the city will be compounded. Plus, Forbes said the flooding could be even worse if tides occur during a flood-inducing atmospheric river or a smaller storm like the one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017880/bay-area-braces-quadruple-threat-rain-wind-surf-king-tides\">bearing down on Northern California\u003c/a> this weekend with heavy rain, strong wind and high surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows onto the sidewalk during a high king tide at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A king tide gives us an idea of what is coming in the future,” she said. “Right now, it’s infrequent flooding, but it will become intermittent to frequent flooding over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes is particularly worried about the area that floods today. 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"content": "\u003cp>The Bay Area is bracing for a quadfecta of environmental conditions this week — heavy rain, strong winds, high surf and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014611/king-tide-back-bay-area-heres-what-you-can-expect#:~:text=%E2%80%9CKing%20tide%E2%80%9D%20is%20not%20a,feet%20at%205:38%20p.m.\">king tides\u003c/a> — that will create blustery conditions and potential flooding across the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like everything all at once,” said Nicole Sarment, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Wednesday night brought moderate rain, Sarment said the Bay Area will get a short reprieve before a larger, windy, wet storm settles over the region late Friday through Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarment foresees flooding due to heavy rain, high surf and king tides. Starting Friday, according to the weather service’s \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?format=ci&glossary=1&issuedby=mtr&product=afd&site=mtr&version=1\">online forecast discussion\u003c/a>, “there are going to be poor conditions everywhere, especially on the water or at the beach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The storm door is now opening up for us,” said Rick Canepa, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “We’re still in the early stages of the winter season. So it’s a bit of a tough call, but there’s plenty of potential ahead of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016722\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241122_NorcalStorm_GC-15_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rohnert Park Expressway flooded due to heavy rainfall during an atmospheric river storm affecting the Bay Area on Nov. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lowland parts of the region will likely receive about an inch of rain during the 24-hour storm, but the North Bay is of top concern because up to 5 inches of rain could fall at the highest elevations, Sarment said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The North Bay just got hammered with an atmospheric river a few weeks ago, so their soils are a lot more saturated,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturated soil is unable to absorb as much rainwater, leading to more runoff during a heavy storm and raising the flood risk for rivers, streams and roadways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12016813 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs14-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood watch is in effect from 2 p.m. Friday through Saturday afternoon for the North Bay. Three Sonoma County waterways could flood: Laguna de Santa Rosa, the Russian River and Mark West Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a thunderstorm or really heavy showers were to develop, that poses a risk for flooding,” Sarment said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King tides — caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955598/king-tides-are-here-why-they-happen-and-what-they-teach-us\">a stronger than normal gravitational pull\u003c/a> when the sun, moon and Earth align — could push water up the coast and bayshore with high-tide levels between \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/participate.html#tidemap\">5 and 12 feet through Monday\u003c/a>. On top of the higher tides, the weather service has issued a high surf advisory from 1 p.m. Thursday through 4 p.m. Saturday with large breaking waves on the order of 18 to 22 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because the tide overall is going to be higher, those bigger waves will be able to run up the beach farther,” Sarment said. “Overall, it’s not going to be a good weekend to go out and about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The higher tides increase flooding risk in places like San Francisco’s Embarcadero and the Mill Valley–Sausalito Bike Path in Marin County. The highest tides could reach nearly 12 feet on Saturday north of San José’s bayshore community of Alviso, according to the California King Tides Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Coastal Commission asks the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/#:~:text=The%20next%20California%20King%20Tide,December%2013%2D15%2C%202024.&text=Sign%20up%20to%20receive%20email,the%20highest%20tides%20of%20today.\">to submit photos of waves and rising groundwater\u003c/a> during this weekend’s king tides. The images will be used by climate scientists and government officials “to validate sea level rise models and assess local vulnerabilities to erosion and flooding,” the commission wrote in a press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Conditions will improve on Sunday before a third round of rain moves through the Bay Area on Monday, but Sarment said impacts from next week’s system look minor so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is some good news for the not-so-distant future: After next week’s storm, she said, the region will “have better weather” just in time for the Christmas holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a first for the Bay Area, the region has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994406/landmark-bay-area-regional-plan-to-combat-sea-level-rise-unveiled\">a finalized plan to protect the more than 400 miles of bayshore\u003c/a> from the chaos that sea level rise could unleash — waterlogged freeways, submerged neighborhoods, inundated airports and sunken train lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for the effort to succeed, more than 50 cities and counties that ring the San Francisco Bay need to get on board and follow the guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plan will require more effort from the localities because more effort is required if we’re going to survive this and avoid major damage,” said Zachary Wasserman, chair of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “We’re all going to have to make efforts to address this very real threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”[aside postID=news_12009607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240214-CoastalCommission-50-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Up until the vote, regulators tweaked amendments on how cities could comply with the guidelines and not negatively impact the environment. BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. 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The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. 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The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. He said advocates need to bring concerns to their elected officials if they want strong enforcement or mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wetlands of Area 4 in Newark, Alameda County, on Aug. 13, 2021. The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When cities or counties submit developmental plans, BCDC asks for vulnerability assessments for four different sea level rise scenarios ranging from just under a foot up to 6.6 feet. Each assessment should address coastal flood hazards, including tidal inundation and storm surge from a 100-year storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time BCDC is requesting all local plans to consider how sea level rise will push up groundwater into communities while also examining how flooding could inundate contaminated sites. The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Trump recently posted on his Truth Social platform a criticism of the “rerouting of MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER A DAY FROM THE NORTH OUT INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, rather than using it, free of charge, for the towns, cities, & farms dotted all throughout California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='farming']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the number one issue,” said Jason Phillips, chief executive of the Friant Water Authority, which represents more than a dozen irrigation districts serving a large swath of the crop-rich valley. “You only need labor, and you only need the products and the equipment and everything else to grow food if you have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California relies on water supplies from the Central Valley Project and the state-run State Water Project. The federal project provides 5 million acre-feet of water to farms each year and 600,000 acre-feet to cities, as well as water to maintain water quality in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which provides critical habitat to fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the prior Trump administration, government officials issued rules to allow for a greater flow of water to California farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups blasted the move. The Biden administration pushed back on those decisions and has been working on new rules aimed at balancing farming with protections for endangered wildlife such as the delta smelt, a tiny fish that is an indicator of the health of California’s waterways, and Chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California farmers said federal water allocations have been more limited than they feel is necessary after two years of ample rain boosted the state’s reservoirs. 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Salmon fishing has been banned off the California coast for the past two years because of dwindling stocks, and critics say Trump’s prior decisions to move water away from salmon-spawning areas are to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They delivered all the cold water behind Shasta Dam. It literally cooked the baby salmon before they were hatched,” said Barry Nelson, policy advisor to the Golden State Salmon Association, a nonprofit focused on restoring California salmon. “Math is a brutal master, and we’ve hit physical limits on the amount of water we can take from the Bay delta, and the sign of that is the collapse of the ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic California Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:15 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Two people have died in Sonoma County following the record-breaking storm that’s now making its way out of the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff’s office said it discovered a person in a submerged car in Guerneville near Highway 116 around noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood warning remains in effect for the Russian River near Guerneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Rosa police department said it recovered a 60-year-old man’s body in Piner Creek at Guerneville Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Piner Creek, at that area, in fact all creeks in Santa Rosa, were extremely high and have been experiencing flooding during this storm,” said Sergeant Patricia Steffens with the Santa Rosa Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police department could not confirm the circumstances surrounding the death, but said it is investigating whether nearby flooding was related.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Saturday: \u003c/strong>The\u003ca href=\"https://ggweather.com/seasonal_rain.htm\"> record-breaking stormy weather\u003c/a> has started to leave the Bay Area, with the worst of it over, according to National Weather Service meteorologist Ryan Walbrun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The main moisture plume has welled south and east of the region,” Walbrun told KQED. “None of the rain that’s falling today or the next couple days is going to be associated with any type of atmospheric river, just a more typical type of weather system that we’d be expecting for the beginning of winter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weather officials say the storm was a \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860380861675503931\">one-in-a-thousand-year event\u003c/a> in parts of the North Bay, including downtown Santa Rosa, which received nearly a foot and a half of rain over three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More rain is expected starting Sunday and heading into Monday, with steady but “beneficial” rain expected, said Walbrun with the NWS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system looks to be much weaker than the atmospheric river that we just had,” Walbrun said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a flood advisory is in\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860398067553566803\"> place for the East Bay\u003c/a> until 1:45 p.m. Saturday, with minor flooding expected, including of highways and underpasses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860393132590006716\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4:59 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Flash flooding was reported in San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County on Friday afternoon as the Bay Area was lashed by a third day of heavy rain and strong winds from the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015275/another-strong-storm-to-slam-california-raising-flood-risk-in-north-bay\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> to hit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flash flooding was reported in San Francisco and parts of San Mateo County on Friday afternoon as the Bay Area was lashed by a third day of heavy rain and strong winds from the second \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015275/another-strong-storm-to-slam-california-raising-flood-risk-in-north-bay\">atmospheric river\u003c/a> to hit this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for northwestern San Mateo County — including Daly City, Broadmoor and Pacifica — until 5 p.m. In the East Bay,\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSFlashFlood/status/1860095722013806833\"> flash flood warnings\u003c/a> are in effect from San Pablo south to Hayward and Castro Valley until this evening. An earlier warning for San Francisco was reduced to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860113598502297745\">a watch\u003c/a> after the rain there backed off around 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alerts came as a stronger band of the storm moved south over San Francisco and the Bay Area, driving up rainfall rates along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On northbound Highway 101 at Interstate 280, the fourth and fifth lanes were \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHPSanFrancisco/status/1860088117195100655\">blocked by flooding\u003c/a>, the California Highway Patrol said at 2:30 p.m. It was not clear when they would reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday afternoon, nearly 500 flights had been delayed and more than 60 canceled at San Francisco International Airport, the most in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/KSFO\">according to FlightAware\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, multiple days of heavy rain have saturated soils and swelled waterways, raising flood dangers. The CHP reported flooding on Highway 121 in Sonoma County, closing all lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intense rain over Sonoma County pushed several creeks to their maximum, flooding streets across Santa Rosa. Officials said floodwaters trapped a person in a car in front of a Starbucks, and 150 people sheltered in place at a Santa Rosa medical center and Hampton Inn when floodwaters cut off access to the buildings, said Paul Lowenthal, division chief fire marshal for the Santa Rosa Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a report of several vehicles potentially floating away under the volume of water,” Lowenthal said. “They were essentially stranded because of floodwaters. No one was able to leave those facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 20 inches of rain falling in Sonoma County mountains, forecasters are also watching a half dozen streams and the Russian River approach flood stages. A flood advisory is in effect for Sonoma County through Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t expecting that since it’s November,” said Dylan Flynn, a lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office. “It’s rising incredibly fast. If this had happened in February, it would have been catastrophic since the river started so empty. But it could get worse if the rain overperforms today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first storm dropped nearly a foot of rain on Santa Rosa, and Friday’s atmospheric river could break records in the city “by a lot,” Flynn said. Santa Rosa is nearing an all-time mark for the most rain in three days since record-keeping there began in 1902.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-06-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, ‘Possible Flooding’ in Marin City on Nov. 22, 2024, during a storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mountain communities like Occidental, west of Sebastopol, have already received more than 21 inches of rain. Nearly 20 inches of rain has soaked Venado, north of Guerneville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain said the first major rainfall of the year has already become the Santa Rosa area’s wettest rain event over two days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not in Venado or the coastal hills where we get these double-digit totals every winter,” he said. “This is in the flatlands of the valley in Santa Rosa proper, having about 12 inches of rain in a 48-hour period, and it’s still pouring at the moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=science_1935067 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2019/01/ARstormcurrent-672x372.gif']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said Friday that the rain totals in Santa Rosa for Thursday looked like the storm could be a 100- to 200-year event. Since rainfall will continue to add up on Friday, he said the two-day totals could veer into the 500-year event territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the rainfall totals are a first for Sonoma County in over 100 years. “This amount of rain doesn’t compare to the historical record,” he said. “We haven’t seen this much rain focused in the North Bay for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay could get up to 3 more inches of rain on Friday before starting to “thankfully finally dry out,” Flynn said. Two smaller systems are expected to bring scattered showers across the Bay Area into early next week, though.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While atmospheric rivers are normal for California and have “always happened,” Flynn said, human-caused climate change — brought on by the burning of fossil fuels globally — is “raising the benchmark” and adding more “moisture to the atmosphere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015609\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015609\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-25-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A person walks on Haight Street in the rain in San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2024, during a storm bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I can’t tell you what we would have gotten from the storm without climate change, but just know that on average, on the whole, it kind of sets that floor just a little bit higher for these types of atmospheric rivers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the storm triggers wind advisories stretching from the North Bay to Monterey County, tree companies across Sonoma County are receiving an influx of calls for downed limbs on houses, crushed cars and smashed fences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Slater, owner of Slater’s Professional Tree Care, said his crews handled many calls on Thursday. On Friday morning, he was on his way to a Santa Rosa home where a eucalyptus tree snapped and potentially crushed the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge 100-year-old oak tree fell across somebody’s driveway, and the client was trapped in his house,” he said. “With this amount of consistent rain, it’s definitely causing damage to homes and the local natural habitat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Sherwood, assistant general manager for Sonoma Water, lives in a neighborhood near the flooded area of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Matthew Macale, Jasmin Macaraeg, and Keizha Macale take photos at the Vista Point overlook near Golden Gate Bridge north of San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole cul-de-sac and the parking lot was a pond,” he said. “It was totally unexpected. I have never seen that area flood like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After four hours, people were able to leave the area once the water receded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 30 roads were closed Thursday due to flooding or downed power lines. Only one street was closed as of 9 a.m. Friday, Lowenthal said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12015125 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241119-SFHomelessArrests-02-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, with several more inches of rain on the way, Lowenthal said he expects overflowing creeks and nuisance flooding across the city on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With us getting roughly 10 to 11 inches of rain just in the last 48 hours, it’s not going to take much for those creeks and streams to rapidly rise once again and lead to a lot of ponding and nuisance flooding,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a water supply perspective, Sherwood said the two early season storms benefit the North Bay. Over the last two days, the first storm added more than 16,000 acre-feet of water to Lake Sonoma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s incredible and pretty much unheard of for this particular time of year,” he said. “Right now, our reservoirs are in prime condition to hold a lot of this water\u003cem>.”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sherwood is looking forward to a lull in the rain after this weekend but said he is hoping this isn’t a “one and done storm system. We do need the continued precipitation through January, February and March.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s still too early to know if the early-season rain is an indication of a wet winter, and Sherwood said his agency will keep as much water in reservoirs as possible. He noted some past winters that had big storms in November and December, “then the spigot was turned off by Mother Nature, and then a three-year drought started.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Billy Cruz and Juan Carlos Lara contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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An earlier warning for San Francisco was reduced to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1860113598502297745\">a watch\u003c/a> after the rain there backed off around 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alerts came as a stronger band of the storm moved south over San Francisco and the Bay Area, driving up rainfall rates along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On northbound Highway 101 at Interstate 280, the fourth and fifth lanes were \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/CHPSanFrancisco/status/1860088117195100655\">blocked by flooding\u003c/a>, the California Highway Patrol said at 2:30 p.m. It was not clear when they would reopen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Friday afternoon, nearly 500 flights had been delayed and more than 60 canceled at San Francisco International Airport, the most in the U.S., \u003ca href=\"https://www.flightaware.com/live/cancelled/today/KSFO\">according to FlightAware\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, multiple days of heavy rain have saturated soils and swelled waterways, raising flood dangers. The CHP reported flooding on Highway 121 in Sonoma County, closing all lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The intense rain over Sonoma County pushed several creeks to their maximum, flooding streets across Santa Rosa. Officials said floodwaters trapped a person in a car in front of a Starbucks, and 150 people sheltered in place at a Santa Rosa medical center and Hampton Inn when floodwaters cut off access to the buildings, said Paul Lowenthal, division chief fire marshal for the Santa Rosa Fire Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a report of several vehicles potentially floating away under the volume of water,” Lowenthal said. “They were essentially stranded because of floodwaters. No one was able to leave those facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more than 20 inches of rain falling in Sonoma County mountains, forecasters are also watching a half dozen streams and the Russian River approach flood stages. A flood advisory is in effect for Sonoma County through Saturday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We weren’t expecting that since it’s November,” said Dylan Flynn, a lead meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office. “It’s rising incredibly fast. If this had happened in February, it would have been catastrophic since the river started so empty. But it could get worse if the rain overperforms today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first storm dropped nearly a foot of rain on Santa Rosa, and Friday’s atmospheric river could break records in the city “by a lot,” Flynn said. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain said Friday that the rain totals in Santa Rosa for Thursday looked like the storm could be a 100- to 200-year event. Since rainfall will continue to add up on Friday, he said the two-day totals could veer into the 500-year event territory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn said the rainfall totals are a first for Sonoma County in over 100 years. “This amount of rain doesn’t compare to the historical record,” he said. “We haven’t seen this much rain focused in the North Bay for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay could get up to 3 more inches of rain on Friday before starting to “thankfully finally dry out,” Flynn said. 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On Friday morning, he was on his way to a Santa Rosa home where a eucalyptus tree snapped and potentially crushed the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A huge 100-year-old oak tree fell across somebody’s driveway, and the client was trapped in his house,” he said. “With this amount of consistent rain, it’s definitely causing damage to homes and the local natural habitat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brad Sherwood, assistant general manager for Sonoma Water, lives in a neighborhood near the flooded area of Santa Rosa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12015605\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12015605\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-10-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(From left) Matthew Macale, Jasmin Macaraeg, and Keizha Macale take photos at the Vista Point overlook near Golden Gate Bridge north of San Francisco on Nov. 22, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The whole cul-de-sac and the parking lot was a pond,” he said. “It was totally unexpected. 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