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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">The California-Nevada River Forecast Center\u003c/a>'s latest estimate of the Russian River's crest \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">at Guerneville\u003c/a> says the waterway will peak at about 5½ feet over flood stage. That's down 2 feet from the forecast last night for a 39.8-foot crest, which would have significantly widened the inundated area. 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Many roads in Guerneville, Monte Rio, Rio Nido, and Hacienda will be flooded.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong>Downpours throughout the Bay Area prompted a series of flash flood warnings and ongoing worries about flooding along the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the day, flood warnings or flash flood warnings were in force through Wednesday morning for dozens of communities in every Bay Area county as prolonged heavy rain fell on terrain already saturated by storms last week and over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings as creeks rose rapidly in parts of Sonoma, Marin, Napa, Alameda, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties. 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Occasionally heavy precipitation is expected to continue late into the evening before breaking up into scattered showers Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major concern in the region is flooding, and much of the attention is focused in the North Bay, especially the lower Russian River in Sonoma County. During the course of the day, the National Weather Service issued flood and flash flood warnings for large swaths of the county, including areas near Healdsburg, Geyserville, Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Petaluma and the town of Sonoma. On the other end of the Bay Area, the service issued a flash flood warning for parts of Los Gatos as Lexington Reservoir reached capacity and sent water into Los Gatos Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In western Sonoma County, the Russian River crested at 3 feet above flood stage in Guerneville on Monday, flooding hundreds of homes and businesses in the resort town and nearby communities. After the river receded to just above flood stage today, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center says\u003c/a> the Russian is expected to rise to about 6½ over flood stage by Wednesday evening, inundating even more property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11263564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\" alt=\"California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville.\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville. \u003ccite>(CNRFC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief break from the major weekend storm, heavy rain resumed across the watershed late Monday and continued without respite Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among locations widely watched for gauging the intensity of rainfall that will wind up as runoff cascading into the Russian River are Venado, in the hills west of Healdsburg, and Cazadero, in the hills north of the river near the community of Duncans Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official California \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=VEN\">Department of Water Resources gauge\u003c/a> at Venado recorded 2.56 inches of rain in the 12 hours ending at noon. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KCACAZAD12#history\" target=\"_blank\">private Cazadero weather station\u003c/a> reported 3.34 inches of rain during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the month so far, Venado has recorded about 24 inches of rain for a total of 69.48 inches since Oct. 1, the start of California's official water year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unofficially -- meaning from our own reading of Department of Water Resources and National Weather Service numbers -- that ranks Venado as No. 3 on the list of rainiest places in the state so far this water year. No. 1 appears to be Four Trees, a place in the mountains of Plumas County, which had gotten 73.52 inches as of midnight Monday; No. 2 is the Mattole River hamlet of Honeydew, in western Humboldt County, with 70.24\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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County officials say that at least 550 homes and businesses near the Russian River near Guerneville have been flooded -- a number expected to grow by at least 100 as the river reaches a crest forecast to be 6 feet over flood stage on Wednesday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scattered showers are expected overnight into Wednesday, followed by a weaker storm Thursday that could still drop another 1 to 2 inches at the Bay Area's wettest locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some precipitation highlights for the 24 hours ending at 9 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Venado (Sonoma County): \u003c/strong>6.40 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kentfield (Marin County):\u003c/strong> 6.11\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Boulder Creek (Santa Cruz Mountains):\u003c/strong> 5.24 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>St. Mary's College (Moraga):\u003c/strong> 5.02 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills):\u003c/strong> 3.30 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban totals include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 2.92 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 3.86 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 1.96 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Downtown San Francisco:\u003c/strong> 1.21 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland International Airport:\u003c/strong> 1.53 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Jose International Airport:\u003c/strong> .60 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Another day, another relentless rainy torrent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our third major storm of 2017, fueled once more by subtropical moisture, has dumped heavy rain across most of the Bay Area. Occasionally heavy precipitation is expected to continue late into the evening before breaking up into scattered showers Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The major concern in the region is flooding, and much of the attention is focused in the North Bay, especially the lower Russian River in Sonoma County. During the course of the day, the National Weather Service issued flood and flash flood warnings for large swaths of the county, including areas near Healdsburg, Geyserville, Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, Petaluma and the town of Sonoma. On the other end of the Bay Area, the service issued a flash flood warning for parts of Los Gatos as Lexington Reservoir reached capacity and sent water into Los Gatos Creek.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In western Sonoma County, the Russian River crested at 3 feet above flood stage in Guerneville on Monday, flooding hundreds of homes and businesses in the resort town and nearby communities. After the river receded to just above flood stage today, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center says\u003c/a> the Russian is expected to rise to about 6½ over flood stage by Wednesday evening, inundating even more property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263564\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11263564\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png\" alt=\"California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville.\" width=\"750\" height=\"750\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph.png 750w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/guernevillegraph-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California-Nevada Forecast center forecast for Russian River at Guerneville. \u003ccite>(CNRFC)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a brief break from the major weekend storm, heavy rain resumed across the watershed late Monday and continued without respite Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among locations widely watched for gauging the intensity of rainfall that will wind up as runoff cascading into the Russian River are Venado, in the hills west of Healdsburg, and Cazadero, in the hills north of the river near the community of Duncans Mills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An official California \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=VEN\">Department of Water Resources gauge\u003c/a> at Venado recorded 2.56 inches of rain in the 12 hours ending at noon. 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"content": "\u003cp>With the strong possibility of a big storm over the weekend and with flood watches in place from near the Oregon border down to Bakersfield, our thoughts turn to … history. More specifically, to some of the great accounts we’ve seen of disasters and near-disasters resulting from big winter storms. Here are three selections, ranging from William Brewer’s account of the historic rains and floods of 1861-62 to two more recent stories, from John McPhee and Marc Reisner, that touch on the impact of big winter storms in the 1970s and 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>William Brewer\u003c/strong> was field leader of the Whitney Survey, which traveled throughout California from 1860 through 1864 to document the state’s geological and other resources. Brewer’s letters and journal entries were collected and published in 1930 as “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=WJKazBEhw2EC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up and Down California\u003c/a>.” From San Francisco in January 1862, Brewer recorded the big news of the day: a nearly nonstop deluge that came amid what still stands as the rainiest winter in much of California. Six weeks later, he visited Sacramento, which had suffered devastating damage in the flood.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://upanddowncalifornia.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/january-19-1862-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 1862\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]‘T[/dropcap]he rains continue, and since I last wrote the floods have been far worse than before. Sacramento and many other towns and cities have again been overflowed, and after the waters had abated somewhat they are again up. That doomed city is in all probability again under water today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11255512\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11255512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento during the winter of 1861-62, from contemporary newspaper illustrations. \" width=\"598\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862.jpg 598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento during the winter of 1861-62, from contemporary newspaper illustrations. \u003ccite>(U)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The amount of rain\u003c/strong> that has fallen is unprecedented in the history of the state. In this city accurate observations have been kept since July, 1853. For the years since, ending with July 1 each year, the amount of rain is known. In New York state—central New York—the average amount is under thirty-eight inches, often not over thirty-three inches, sometimes as low as twenty-eight inches. This includes the melted snow. In this city it has been for the eight years closing last July, 21 3/4 inches, the lowest amount 19 3/4 inches, the highest 23 3/4. Yet this year, since November 6, when the first shower came, to January 18, it is thirty-two and three-quarters inches and it is still raining! But this is not all. Generally twice, sometimes three times, as much falls in the mining districts on the slopes of the Sierra. This year at Sonora, in Tuolumne County, between November 11, 1861, and January 14, 1862, seventy-two inches (six feet) of water has fallen, and in numbers of places over five feet! And that in a period of two months. As much rain as falls in Ithaca in two years has fallen in some places in this state in two months.1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The great central valley\u003c/strong> of the state is under water—the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys—a region 250 to 300 miles long and an average of at least twenty miles wide, a district of five thousand or six thousand square miles, or probably three to three and a half millions of acres! Although much of it is not cultivated, yet a part of it is the garden of the state. Thousands of farms are entirely under water—cattle starving and drowning. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://upanddowncalifornia.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/march-7-1862-sacramento/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 7, 1862\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSacramento\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]‘E[/dropcap]arly in the morning I went to a hotel in Sacramento and got my breakfast and brushed up for business. That dispatched, I had some time to look at the city. Such a desolate scene I hope never to see again. Most of the city is still under water, and has been for three months. A part is out of the water, that is, the streets are above water, but every low place is full—cellars and yards are full, houses and walls wet, everything uncomfortable. Over much of the city boats are still the only means of getting about. No description that I can write will give you any adequate conception of the discomfort and wretchedness this must give rise to. I took a boat and two boys, and we rowed about for an hour or two. Houses, stores, stables, everything, were surrounded by water. Yards were ponds enclosed by dilapidated, muddy, slimy fences; household furniture, chairs, tables, sofas, the fragments of houses, were floating in the muddy waters or lodged in nooks and corners—I saw three sofas floating in different yards. The basements of the better class of houses were half full of water, and through the windows one could see chairs, tables, bedsteads, etc., afloat. Through the windows of a schoolhouse I saw the benches and desks afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It is with the poorer classes\u003c/strong> that this is the worst. Many of the one-story houses are entirely uninhabitable; others, where the floors are above the water are, at best, most wretched places in which to live. The new Capitol is far out in the water—the Governor’s house stands as in a lake—churches, public buildings, private buildings, everything, are wet or in the water. Not a road leading from the city is passable, business is at a dead standstill, everything looks forlorn and wretched. Many houses have partially toppled over; some have been carried from their foundations, several streets (now avenues of water) are blocked up with houses that have floated in them, dead animals lie about here and there—a dreadful picture. I don’t think the city will ever rise from the shock, I don’t see how it can. Yet it has a brighter side. No people can so stand calamity as this people. They are used to it. Everyone is familiar with the history of fortunes quickly made and as quickly lost. It seems here more than elsewhere the natural order of things. I might say, indeed, that the recklessness of the state blunts the keener feelings and takes the edge from this calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Marc Reisner\u003c/strong> published “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=frvKDY0rpToC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cadillac Desert\u003c/a>,” his critical history of water policy in California and the West, in the 1980s. A revised edition came out in 1993, and it included an afterword in which Reisner related the awesome power of a series of big, wet Pacific storms that hit California in February 1986.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]‘I[/dropcap] had always had a mordant wish to watch a dam collapse, and this seemed like the best opportunity I might get in my life. I arrived at Oroville Dam just as the storm was beginning to break up. (It took me hours longer than usual to get there, because shallow lakes had formed across Interstate 680, creating instant new refuges for mallards and pintails.) In the previous week and a half, the Feather River watershed had unofficially recorded fifty-five inches of precipitation, most of it as rain, which melted several feet of snow lying on the ground. Tampa gets that much rain in an average year. The spillway at Oroville is a big concrete channel that loops around the right abutment of the immense earthen dam. It was dumping a hundred and fifty thousands cubic feet of water per second, a couple of rivers the size of the Tennessee. That much water in that confined space — the spillway is about as wide as a basketball court — is in a hurry-up mood. My guess is that it was moving thirty or forty miles per hour. Small trees and shrubs lining the spillway fence were bent double under the force of the vortex winds created by so much mass in a rush. A crow, sailing arrogantly a few feet overhead, suddenly executed some frantic maneuvers to avoid being sucked in himself; he too had never seen anything like this before. Where the spillway poured the river back into the river below the dam — it didn’t so much pour in as fly in — a dense plume of mist mushroomed eighty stories high, split by three arching rainbows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/RQpo3rAvntk\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A dam did actually burst\u003c/strong> during the flood, though I didn’t see it happen. It was a temporary cofferdam built at the prospective site of Auburn Dam, whose construction had been mired in lawsuits and debate for years. The cofferdam held back about a hundred thousand acre-feet of water–thirty-two billion gallons–that merged, almost instantaneously, with a river already swollen to ten times its normal size. The flood-on-a-flood headed into Folsom Lake, which sits twenty miles above Sacramento and has a capacity of about a million acre-feet. Folsom Dam would have to spill the whole reservoir, 320 billion gallons of water, in three or four days in order to absorb the mythic flood pouring in. If it did not, the dam itself would be jeopardized, and if Folsom ended up like Teton Dam [a structure in Idaho that failed catastrophically in 1976] then a lot of Sacramento would float under the Golden Gate Bridge. When I arrived, a whole crowd of disaster buffs was already there, held at bay by dozens of highway patrol. I managed to sneak briefly onto the dam crest anyway; it trembled as a bank might tremble during a hurricane. The spillway at Folsom, a concrete and rock dam, was built into its center; it’s really a man-made, two-hundred-foot waterfall. At the time, it was dumping much more water than Niagara Falls. You couldn’t have heard a jet taking off five hundred feet away; that’s the kind of noise a million pounds of water makes–a million pounds a \u003cem>second\u003c/em>–as it tumbles a couple of hundred feet and crashes into a canyon river bed. (If Folsom was going to be destroyed, it would probably be a consequence of the falling river chewing out the bedrock on which the dam was built.) The waterfall reversed direction about eighty yards downriver and rose up in a towering, backfalling hydraulic wave that raced back and crashed into the dam’s downstream face, as if it wanted a second chance to knock it to smithereens. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Department of Water Resources\u003c/strong> later estimated that ten million acre-feet of runoff–enough for the city of San Francisco for forty years–had poured out the Golden Gate in two weeks. The crew of a freighter miles out to sea that was plowing through huge wave off the Gate said the wash coming across the bow tasted almost like Evian.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the 1970s and ’80s, The New Yorker’s \u003cstrong>John McPhee\u003c/strong> wrote a long series of minutely researched and reported feature articles on humanity’s attempt to tame natural forces. The articles, collected and published in a single volume as “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qQMFOctR7AoC&dq=the+control+of+nature&source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Control of Nature\u003c/a>,” included “Los Angeles Against the Mountains.” His two-part L.A. installment focused on attempts to mitigate the effects of alternating fires and floods along the front of the San Gabriel Mountains — an area prone to both kinds of disasters. He opens the article with a 1978 episode involving Bob and Jackie Genofile, who lived with their teenage children, Scott and Kimberlee, on the slopes of the San Gabriels.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]‘T[/dropcap]he water was now spreading over the street. It descended in heavy sheets. As the young Genofiles and their mother glimpsed it in the all but total darkness, the scene was suddenly illuminated by a blue electrical flash. In the blue light they saw a massive blackness, moving. It was not a landslide, not a mudslide, not a rock avalanche; nor by any means was it the front of a conventional flood. In Jackie’s words, “It was just one big black thing coming at us, rolling, rolling with a lot of water in front of it, pushing the water, this big black thing. It was just one big black hill coming toward us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In geology,\u003c/strong> it would be known as a debris flow. Debris flows amass in stream valleys and more or less resemble fresh concrete. They consist of water mixed with a good deal of solid material, most of which is above sand size. Some of it is Chevrolet size. Boulders bigger than cars ride long distances in debris flows. Boulders grouped like fish eggs pour downhill in debris flows. The dark material coming toward the Genofiles was not only full of boulders; it was so full of automobiles it was like bread dough mixed with raisins. On its way down Pine Cone Road, it plucked up cars from driveways and the street. When it crashed into the Genofiles house, the shattering of safety glass made terrific explosive sounds. A door burst open. Mud and bould poured into the hall. We’re going to go, Jackie thought. Oh, my God, what a hell of a way for the four of us to die together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11255514\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 514px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/genofile1978.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11255514\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/genofile1978.jpg\" alt=\"The Genofile home in Glendale, California, after debris flow.\" width=\"514\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/genofile1978.jpg 514w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/genofile1978-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/genofile1978-240x166.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/genofile1978-375x259.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Genofile home in Glendale, California, after debris flow. \u003ccite>(\u003ca href=\"http://www.cvhistory.org/meetings/oldmeetings/oct09meeting.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley\u003c/a>)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The parents’ bedroom\u003c/strong> was on the far side of the house. Bob Genofile was in there kicking through white satin draperies at the panelled glass, smashing it to provide an outlet for water, when the three others ran in to join him. The walls of the house neither moved nor shook. As a general contractor, Bob had build dams, department stores, hospitals, six schools, seven churches and this house. It was made of concrete block with steel reinforcement, sixteen inches on center. His wife had said it was stronger than any dam in California. His crew had called it “the fort.” In those days, twenty years before, the Genofiles’ acre was close by the edge of the mountain brush, but a developer had come along since then and knocked down thousands of trees and put Pine Cone Road up the slope. Now Bob Genofile was thinking, I hope the roof holds. I hope the roof is strong enough to hold. Debris was flowing over it. He told Scott to shut the bedroom door. No sooner was the door closed than it was battered down and fell into the room. Mud, rock, water poured in. It pushed everybody against the far wall. “Jump on the bed,” Bob said. The bed began to rise. Kneeling on it–on a gold velvet spread–they could soon press their palms against the ceiling. The bed also moved toward the glass wall. The two teen-agers got off, to try to control the motion, and they were pinned between the bed’s brass railing and the wall. Boulders went up against the railing, pressed it into their legs, and held them fast. Bob dived into the muck to try to move the boulders, but he failed. The debris flow, entering through windows as well as doors, continued to rise. Escape was still possible for the parents but not for the children. The parents looked at each other and did not stir. Each reached for and held one of the children. Their mother felt suddenly resigned, sure that her son and daughter would die and she and her husband would quickly follow. The house became buried to the eaves. Boulders sat on the roof. Thirteen automobiles were packed around the building, including five in the pool. A din of rocks kept banging against them. The stuck horn of a buried car was blaring. The family in the darkness in their fixed tableau watched one another by the light of a directional signal, endlessly blinking. The house had filled up in six minutes, and the mud stopped rising near the children’s chins.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>With the strong possibility of a big storm over the weekend and with flood watches in place from near the Oregon border down to Bakersfield, our thoughts turn to … history. More specifically, to some of the great accounts we’ve seen of disasters and near-disasters resulting from big winter storms. Here are three selections, ranging from William Brewer’s account of the historic rains and floods of 1861-62 to two more recent stories, from John McPhee and Marc Reisner, that touch on the impact of big winter storms in the 1970s and 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>William Brewer\u003c/strong> was field leader of the Whitney Survey, which traveled throughout California from 1860 through 1864 to document the state’s geological and other resources. Brewer’s letters and journal entries were collected and published in 1930 as “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=WJKazBEhw2EC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Up and Down California\u003c/a>.” From San Francisco in January 1862, Brewer recorded the big news of the day: a nearly nonstop deluge that came amid what still stands as the rainiest winter in much of California. Six weeks later, he visited Sacramento, which had suffered devastating damage in the flood.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://upanddowncalifornia.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/january-19-1862-san-francisco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 1862\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">‘T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he rains continue, and since I last wrote the floods have been far worse than before. Sacramento and many other towns and cities have again been overflowed, and after the waters had abated somewhat they are again up. That doomed city is in all probability again under water today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11255512\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 598px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11255512\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862.jpg\" alt=\"Sacramento during the winter of 1861-62, from contemporary newspaper illustrations. \" width=\"598\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862.jpg 598w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-375x252.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/sacramento-1862-520x350.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sacramento during the winter of 1861-62, from contemporary newspaper illustrations. \u003ccite>(U)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The amount of rain\u003c/strong> that has fallen is unprecedented in the history of the state. In this city accurate observations have been kept since July, 1853. For the years since, ending with July 1 each year, the amount of rain is known. In New York state—central New York—the average amount is under thirty-eight inches, often not over thirty-three inches, sometimes as low as twenty-eight inches. This includes the melted snow. In this city it has been for the eight years closing last July, 21 3/4 inches, the lowest amount 19 3/4 inches, the highest 23 3/4. Yet this year, since November 6, when the first shower came, to January 18, it is thirty-two and three-quarters inches and it is still raining! But this is not all. Generally twice, sometimes three times, as much falls in the mining districts on the slopes of the Sierra. This year at Sonora, in Tuolumne County, between November 11, 1861, and January 14, 1862, seventy-two inches (six feet) of water has fallen, and in numbers of places over five feet! And that in a period of two months. As much rain as falls in Ithaca in two years has fallen in some places in this state in two months.1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The great central valley\u003c/strong> of the state is under water—the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys—a region 250 to 300 miles long and an average of at least twenty miles wide, a district of five thousand or six thousand square miles, or probably three to three and a half millions of acres! Although much of it is not cultivated, yet a part of it is the garden of the state. Thousands of farms are entirely under water—cattle starving and drowning. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://upanddowncalifornia.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/march-7-1862-sacramento/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 7, 1862\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\nSacramento\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">‘E\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>arly in the morning I went to a hotel in Sacramento and got my breakfast and brushed up for business. That dispatched, I had some time to look at the city. Such a desolate scene I hope never to see again. Most of the city is still under water, and has been for three months. A part is out of the water, that is, the streets are above water, but every low place is full—cellars and yards are full, houses and walls wet, everything uncomfortable. Over much of the city boats are still the only means of getting about. No description that I can write will give you any adequate conception of the discomfort and wretchedness this must give rise to. I took a boat and two boys, and we rowed about for an hour or two. Houses, stores, stables, everything, were surrounded by water. Yards were ponds enclosed by dilapidated, muddy, slimy fences; household furniture, chairs, tables, sofas, the fragments of houses, were floating in the muddy waters or lodged in nooks and corners—I saw three sofas floating in different yards. The basements of the better class of houses were half full of water, and through the windows one could see chairs, tables, bedsteads, etc., afloat. Through the windows of a schoolhouse I saw the benches and desks afloat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It is with the poorer classes\u003c/strong> that this is the worst. Many of the one-story houses are entirely uninhabitable; others, where the floors are above the water are, at best, most wretched places in which to live. The new Capitol is far out in the water—the Governor’s house stands as in a lake—churches, public buildings, private buildings, everything, are wet or in the water. Not a road leading from the city is passable, business is at a dead standstill, everything looks forlorn and wretched. Many houses have partially toppled over; some have been carried from their foundations, several streets (now avenues of water) are blocked up with houses that have floated in them, dead animals lie about here and there—a dreadful picture. I don’t think the city will ever rise from the shock, I don’t see how it can. Yet it has a brighter side. No people can so stand calamity as this people. They are used to it. Everyone is familiar with the history of fortunes quickly made and as quickly lost. It seems here more than elsewhere the natural order of things. I might say, indeed, that the recklessness of the state blunts the keener feelings and takes the edge from this calamity.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Marc Reisner\u003c/strong> published “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=frvKDY0rpToC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cadillac Desert\u003c/a>,” his critical history of water policy in California and the West, in the 1980s. A revised edition came out in 1993, and it included an afterword in which Reisner related the awesome power of a series of big, wet Pacific storms that hit California in February 1986.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">‘I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp> had always had a mordant wish to watch a dam collapse, and this seemed like the best opportunity I might get in my life. I arrived at Oroville Dam just as the storm was beginning to break up. (It took me hours longer than usual to get there, because shallow lakes had formed across Interstate 680, creating instant new refuges for mallards and pintails.) In the previous week and a half, the Feather River watershed had unofficially recorded fifty-five inches of precipitation, most of it as rain, which melted several feet of snow lying on the ground. Tampa gets that much rain in an average year. The spillway at Oroville is a big concrete channel that loops around the right abutment of the immense earthen dam. It was dumping a hundred and fifty thousands cubic feet of water per second, a couple of rivers the size of the Tennessee. That much water in that confined space — the spillway is about as wide as a basketball court — is in a hurry-up mood. My guess is that it was moving thirty or forty miles per hour. Small trees and shrubs lining the spillway fence were bent double under the force of the vortex winds created by so much mass in a rush. A crow, sailing arrogantly a few feet overhead, suddenly executed some frantic maneuvers to avoid being sucked in himself; he too had never seen anything like this before. Where the spillway poured the river back into the river below the dam — it didn’t so much pour in as fly in — a dense plume of mist mushroomed eighty stories high, split by three arching rainbows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/RQpo3rAvntk\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A dam did actually burst\u003c/strong> during the flood, though I didn’t see it happen. It was a temporary cofferdam built at the prospective site of Auburn Dam, whose construction had been mired in lawsuits and debate for years. The cofferdam held back about a hundred thousand acre-feet of water–thirty-two billion gallons–that merged, almost instantaneously, with a river already swollen to ten times its normal size. The flood-on-a-flood headed into Folsom Lake, which sits twenty miles above Sacramento and has a capacity of about a million acre-feet. Folsom Dam would have to spill the whole reservoir, 320 billion gallons of water, in three or four days in order to absorb the mythic flood pouring in. If it did not, the dam itself would be jeopardized, and if Folsom ended up like Teton Dam [a structure in Idaho that failed catastrophically in 1976] then a lot of Sacramento would float under the Golden Gate Bridge. When I arrived, a whole crowd of disaster buffs was already there, held at bay by dozens of highway patrol. I managed to sneak briefly onto the dam crest anyway; it trembled as a bank might tremble during a hurricane. The spillway at Folsom, a concrete and rock dam, was built into its center; it’s really a man-made, two-hundred-foot waterfall. At the time, it was dumping much more water than Niagara Falls. You couldn’t have heard a jet taking off five hundred feet away; that’s the kind of noise a million pounds of water makes–a million pounds a \u003cem>second\u003c/em>–as it tumbles a couple of hundred feet and crashes into a canyon river bed. (If Folsom was going to be destroyed, it would probably be a consequence of the falling river chewing out the bedrock on which the dam was built.) The waterfall reversed direction about eighty yards downriver and rose up in a towering, backfalling hydraulic wave that raced back and crashed into the dam’s downstream face, as if it wanted a second chance to knock it to smithereens. …\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Department of Water Resources\u003c/strong> later estimated that ten million acre-feet of runoff–enough for the city of San Francisco for forty years–had poured out the Golden Gate in two weeks. The crew of a freighter miles out to sea that was plowing through huge wave off the Gate said the wash coming across the bow tasted almost like Evian.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>In the 1970s and ’80s, The New Yorker’s \u003cstrong>John McPhee\u003c/strong> wrote a long series of minutely researched and reported feature articles on humanity’s attempt to tame natural forces. The articles, collected and published in a single volume as “\u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=qQMFOctR7AoC&dq=the+control+of+nature&source=gbs_navlinks_s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Control of Nature\u003c/a>,” included “Los Angeles Against the Mountains.” His two-part L.A. installment focused on attempts to mitigate the effects of alternating fires and floods along the front of the San Gabriel Mountains — an area prone to both kinds of disasters. He opens the article with a 1978 episode involving Bob and Jackie Genofile, who lived with their teenage children, Scott and Kimberlee, on the slopes of the San Gabriels.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">‘T\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>he water was now spreading over the street. It descended in heavy sheets. As the young Genofiles and their mother glimpsed it in the all but total darkness, the scene was suddenly illuminated by a blue electrical flash. In the blue light they saw a massive blackness, moving. It was not a landslide, not a mudslide, not a rock avalanche; nor by any means was it the front of a conventional flood. In Jackie’s words, “It was just one big black thing coming at us, rolling, rolling with a lot of water in front of it, pushing the water, this big black thing. It was just one big black hill coming toward us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In geology,\u003c/strong> it would be known as a debris flow. Debris flows amass in stream valleys and more or less resemble fresh concrete. They consist of water mixed with a good deal of solid material, most of which is above sand size. Some of it is Chevrolet size. Boulders bigger than cars ride long distances in debris flows. Boulders grouped like fish eggs pour downhill in debris flows. The dark material coming toward the Genofiles was not only full of boulders; it was so full of automobiles it was like bread dough mixed with raisins. On its way down Pine Cone Road, it plucked up cars from driveways and the street. When it crashed into the Genofiles house, the shattering of safety glass made terrific explosive sounds. A door burst open. Mud and bould poured into the hall. We’re going to go, Jackie thought. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cspan class=\"s2\">California is sinking at a \u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/california-is-sinking-and-its-getting-worse/\" target=\"_blank\">historic rate\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">That sinking, which scientists call subsidence, has damaged flood levees intended to protect hundreds of miles of Central Valley farmland. Some levees near the San Joaquin River have sunk more than 6 feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">If this year's El Niño produces heavy storms, those sinking levees are now more likely to fail, putting farms and communities at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Find out what's causing the sinking and see the damaged levees in this PBS NewsHour piece produced by KQED's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/mlam\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Lam\u003c/a> and \u003cspan class=\"s1\">Reveal reporter \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/person/nathan-halverson-0\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Halverson\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10713455\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10713455 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Groundwater well\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/IMG_1715.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmers in Merced County drill wells to tap groundwater and pump it to the surface. \u003ccite>(Monica Lam/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003cem>Watch \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">KQED NEWSROOM\u003c/a>, a weekly news magazine program. Watch Fridays at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9, listen on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM, or watch online \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/newsroom/\" target=\"_blank\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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