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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Forecasters predict a strong spring storm that will pass through Northern California has the potential to flood a river and soak Bay Area cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Showers in the Bay Area will intensify Thursday night and some smaller trees could fall, said Jan Null, with Golden Gate Weather Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is expected to last through Saturday, before heading out to the Great Plains. But a similar storm is forecast to arrive next Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and Oakland can expect 1 to 1.5 inches of rain, which Monterey National Weather Service forecaster Steve Anderson said was normal for this time of year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gale warnings and small craft advisories will go into effect for coastal waters on Thursday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Short term it's been very challenging.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/RDnews/2017/03/HappyBoyFarmsFlooding.mp3\" title=\"Winter Rains Bring Too Much of a Good Thing to Pajaro Riverbed Farm\" program=\"KQED News\" image=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-800x533.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Boy Farms grows vegetables in San Benito, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. I've stood in long lines for its carrots, kale and collards at the Temescal Farmers' Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Happy Boy's parcels are along the Pajaro River, near Watsonville. The rainfall Ingraham talks about -- about 20 inches total in January and February -- pushed the river over its banks and flooded some of the firm's farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a 250-acre farm. We've lost around 100 acres of crops. We have about 80 acres we can't even get to because we're still pumping water out,\" Ingraham said. She says she's seen fish swimming in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water submerged a tractor and wells. The cost of repairs will run to more than $10,000, Ingraham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Winter is a really hard time for farms to break even to begin with, but add all of this on top of it ...,\" Ingraham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the farm has gotten creative and is trying to engage its customer community. It has launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/happyboyfarms\" target=\"_blank\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> and is offering a credit voucher for 10 percent more than any donation over $20. In other words, for a contribution of 20 bucks now, customers get a voucher for 22 bucks' worth of produce in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland restaurants that buy produce from Happy Boy Farms -- Temescal's Pizzaiolo and Grand Lake's\u003cbr>\nBoot & Shoe Service -- have joined the effort by offering the proceeds from special cocktails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Boy's message on its GoFundMe page is blunt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year at this time, we prayed for rain, as we had experienced significant crop failure due to years of drought. This winter, we got what we prayed for, and it has rained, and rained, and rained, resulting in flooding that has caused catastrophic damage to our farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11367892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11367892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Happy Boy Farms parcel along the Pajaro River near Watsonville. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Happy Boy Farms parcel along the Pajaro River near Watsonville. \u003ccite>(Happy Boy Farms)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Temescal Farmers' Market, Ingraham's tone was equally matter of fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With farming, you have to let things roll off your back,\" she said. \"You have to stay hopeful and realize that all you can do is what you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked about the level of support from customers at the market, her tone changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are so community-driven. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Boy Farms grows vegetables in San Benito, Santa Cruz and Santa Clara counties. I've stood in long lines for its carrots, kale and collards at the Temescal Farmers' Market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Happy Boy's parcels are along the Pajaro River, near Watsonville. The rainfall Ingraham talks about -- about 20 inches total in January and February -- pushed the river over its banks and flooded some of the firm's farmland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We are a 250-acre farm. We've lost around 100 acres of crops. We have about 80 acres we can't even get to because we're still pumping water out,\" Ingraham said. She says she's seen fish swimming in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The water submerged a tractor and wells. The cost of repairs will run to more than $10,000, Ingraham says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Winter is a really hard time for farms to break even to begin with, but add all of this on top of it ...,\" Ingraham said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the farm has gotten creative and is trying to engage its customer community. It has launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/happyboyfarms\" target=\"_blank\">a GoFundMe page\u003c/a> and is offering a credit voucher for 10 percent more than any donation over $20. In other words, for a contribution of 20 bucks now, customers get a voucher for 22 bucks' worth of produce in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two Oakland restaurants that buy produce from Happy Boy Farms -- Temescal's Pizzaiolo and Grand Lake's\u003cbr>\nBoot & Shoe Service -- have joined the effort by offering the proceeds from special cocktails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Happy Boy's message on its GoFundMe page is blunt:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Last year at this time, we prayed for rain, as we had experienced significant crop failure due to years of drought. This winter, we got what we prayed for, and it has rained, and rained, and rained, resulting in flooding that has caused catastrophic damage to our farm.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11367892\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11367892\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A Happy Boy Farms parcel along the Pajaro River near Watsonville. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/03/Happy-Boy-underwater-520x346.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Happy Boy Farms parcel along the Pajaro River near Watsonville. \u003ccite>(Happy Boy Farms)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At the Temescal Farmers' Market, Ingraham's tone was equally matter of fact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"With farming, you have to let things roll off your back,\" she said. \"You have to stay hopeful and realize that all you can do is what you can do.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I asked about the level of support from customers at the market, her tone changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People are so community-driven. The customers are so thoughtful and supportive every week. There are a lot of hard-core folks who do come out in all the conditions,\" she said. \"That's why we keep coming. That's why we keep growing. ... It's a beautiful symbiotic relationship.\"\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>https://twitter.com/highwayranger/status/829082429952397312\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong> Is it a long winter yet? The Bay Area’s latest dose of copious precipitation late Monday and early Tuesday caused flooding over a wide area and travel problems throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 24 hours ending at 1 p.m. Tuesday, the storm dropped more than 7 inches of rain over the wettest parts of northern Sonoma County, more than 6 inches on parts of Marin County and the Santa Cruz Mountains, and 5 to 6 inches in the hills of Napa and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm moved on to the southeast, dousing the San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra foothills. Heavy rain farther north prompted the National Weather Service to post \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=flood%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">flood warnings\u003c/a> for the entire Central Valley from Modesto up to Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, the Napa River crested above flood stage at St. Helena, flooding roads and fields, and was expected to peak in the city of Napa late Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s to come? Weather models show occasional rain on and off from Tuesday afternoon through early Thursday, with the highest amounts of rain — as much as an inch — over the North Bay hills and half an inch or less over much of the rest of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next storm is forecast to plow through the region before dawn Thursday, dropping 2 inches or so over the North Bay hills, 1 to 2 inches over the rest of Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties, the East Bay hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains, and about an inch along the immediate shore of San Francisco Bay. Showers are forecast to continue Friday before clearing weather on Saturday and into the beginning of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some resources for keeping up with the current weather and travel information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>National Weather Service Bay Area flood warnings: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC097&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=4%20Miles%20WNW%20Cotati%20CA&product1=Flood+Warning&lat=38.3405&lon=-122.7729#.WJpG4FMrJaQ\" target=\"_blank\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ512&warncounty=CAC081&firewxzone=CAZ512&local_place1=4%20Miles%20ENE%20Pescadero%20CA&product1=Flood+Warning&lat=37.2748&lon=-122.3165#.WJpHFlMrJaQ\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>NWS Sacramento flood warning:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=flood%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>California-Nevada River Forecast Center flood warnings:\u003c/strong> Napa River in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">Napa\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>511.org:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area traffic conditions.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Here’s a roundup of regional news reports and other coverage of Tuesday’s storm:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/bay-area-wet-weather-update-photos-news-coverage-o/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Amid hundreds of road and traffic problems reported around the Bay Area, flooding on Marin County’s Sir Francis Drake Boulevard is one of the major trouble spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin County Sheriff’s Office reports the street is flooded in the town of Greenbrae, blocking access to the Bon Air shopping center and forcing drivers to use detours to get to Marin General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office also reported a flooded parking lot at the College of Marin that left some students stranded. The overnight downpours and associated flooding also prompted the Kentfield School District, Ross School District, Tam Union and Sausalito/Marin City schools to close for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Residents of the flood-prone towns of south-central Marin County — we’re talking about Fairfax, San Anselmo and Ross — woke up to rapidly rising waters on local creeks Tuesday morning after a night of relentless downpours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warning sirens sounded in Fairfax at 7 a.m., and residents of low-lying areas were warned to get to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam stationed at the Fairfax town hall and police station, a structure partially built across Town Hall Creek, showed rushing water almost high enough to enter the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://video.nest.com/embedded/live/townhallcreek\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rossvalleyfire.org/services/creek-levels-weather\" target=\"_blank\">Stream gauges\u003c/a> on Fairfax Creek, San Anselmo Creek, Sleepy Hollow Creek and Corte Madera Creek showed water rising to or over flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings covering \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC041&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=Kentfield%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Warning&lat=37.9503&lon=-122.5474\" target=\"_blank\">the south-central Marin area\u003c/a> through 11:15 a.m. The NWS warned that flooding can be expected in San Rafael, Mill Valley, San Anselmo, Larkspur, Corte Madera, Tiburon, Fairfax, Kentfield, Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, Ross, Woodacre and other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service also issued a flash flood warning covering \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC055&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=2%20Miles%20E%20Yountville%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Warning&lat=38.4047&lon=-122.3165\" target=\"_blank\">most of the Napa Valley\u003c/a> (through 1:15 p.m.). Flooding was forecast in parts of the valley from Calistoga all the way down to the city of Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa River \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=STH&d=02/07/2017+08:33&span=12hours\" target=\"_blank\">rose above flood stage \u003c/a>near St. Helena about 5 a.m. Tuesday. The California-Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">says the river should crest\u003c/a> there sometime later Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is also expected to just touch flood stage in the city of Napa late Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, the Russian River is expected to crest just below flood level at Guerneville — an area hit by widespread flooding during storms last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is some good news for the North Bay amid the swampy conditions, it’s the fact that the heaviest rain has moved to the south. Some rain totals from Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties for the 12 hours ending at 8 a.m.:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Marin\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Kentfield:\u003c/strong> 5.36 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Tamalpais:\u003c/strong> 4.46 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 2.11 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Point Reyes Station:\u003c/strong> 1.70 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sonoma\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Venado:\u003c/strong> 6.20 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 2.40 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Petaluma-D Street:\u003c/strong> .99 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Napa\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Veeder:\u003c/strong> 4.81 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Angwin:\u003c/strong> 3.67 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Calistoga:\u003c/strong> 3.16 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Yountville:\u003c/strong> 2.84 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Napa (Lincoln Street):\u003c/strong> 2.28 inches\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m.: \u003c/strong> Is it a long winter yet? The Bay Area’s latest dose of copious precipitation late Monday and early Tuesday caused flooding over a wide area and travel problems throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 24 hours ending at 1 p.m. Tuesday, the storm dropped more than 7 inches of rain over the wettest parts of northern Sonoma County, more than 6 inches on parts of Marin County and the Santa Cruz Mountains, and 5 to 6 inches in the hills of Napa and Lake counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm moved on to the southeast, dousing the San Joaquin Valley and southern Sierra foothills. Heavy rain farther north prompted the National Weather Service to post \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=flood%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">flood warnings\u003c/a> for the entire Central Valley from Modesto up to Redding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closer to home, the Napa River crested above flood stage at St. Helena, flooding roads and fields, and was expected to peak in the city of Napa late Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s to come? Weather models show occasional rain on and off from Tuesday afternoon through early Thursday, with the highest amounts of rain — as much as an inch — over the North Bay hills and half an inch or less over much of the rest of the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next storm is forecast to plow through the region before dawn Thursday, dropping 2 inches or so over the North Bay hills, 1 to 2 inches over the rest of Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties, the East Bay hills and the Santa Cruz Mountains, and about an inch along the immediate shore of San Francisco Bay. Showers are forecast to continue Friday before clearing weather on Saturday and into the beginning of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some resources for keeping up with the current weather and travel information:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>National Weather Service Bay Area flood warnings: \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC097&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=4%20Miles%20WNW%20Cotati%20CA&product1=Flood+Warning&lat=38.3405&lon=-122.7729#.WJpG4FMrJaQ\" target=\"_blank\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ512&warncounty=CAC081&firewxzone=CAZ512&local_place1=4%20Miles%20ENE%20Pescadero%20CA&product1=Flood+Warning&lat=37.2748&lon=-122.3165#.WJpHFlMrJaQ\" target=\"_blank\">San Mateo County\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>NWS Sacramento flood warning:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=flood%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento and northern San Joaquin valleys\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>California-Nevada River Forecast Center flood warnings:\u003c/strong> Napa River in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">Napa\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>511.org:\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area traffic conditions.\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Here’s a roundup of regional news reports and other coverage of Tuesday’s storm:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/bay-area-wet-weather-update-photos-news-coverage-o/embed?border=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:15 a.m.:\u003c/strong> Amid hundreds of road and traffic problems reported around the Bay Area, flooding on Marin County’s Sir Francis Drake Boulevard is one of the major trouble spots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Marin County Sheriff’s Office reports the street is flooded in the town of Greenbrae, blocking access to the Bon Air shopping center and forcing drivers to use detours to get to Marin General Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office also reported a flooded parking lot at the College of Marin that left some students stranded. The overnight downpours and associated flooding also prompted the Kentfield School District, Ross School District, Tam Union and Sausalito/Marin City schools to close for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Residents of the flood-prone towns of south-central Marin County — we’re talking about Fairfax, San Anselmo and Ross — woke up to rapidly rising waters on local creeks Tuesday morning after a night of relentless downpours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Warning sirens sounded in Fairfax at 7 a.m., and residents of low-lying areas were warned to get to higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A webcam stationed at the Fairfax town hall and police station, a structure partially built across Town Hall Creek, showed rushing water almost high enough to enter the building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://video.nest.com/embedded/live/townhallcreek\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"720\" height=\"576\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rossvalleyfire.org/services/creek-levels-weather\" target=\"_blank\">Stream gauges\u003c/a> on Fairfax Creek, San Anselmo Creek, Sleepy Hollow Creek and Corte Madera Creek showed water rising to or over flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings covering \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC041&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=Kentfield%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Warning&lat=37.9503&lon=-122.5474\" target=\"_blank\">the south-central Marin area\u003c/a> through 11:15 a.m. The NWS warned that flooding can be expected in San Rafael, Mill Valley, San Anselmo, Larkspur, Corte Madera, Tiburon, Fairfax, Kentfield, Tamalpais-Homestead Valley, Ross, Woodacre and other communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The weather service also issued a flash flood warning covering \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ506&warncounty=CAC055&firewxzone=CAZ506&local_place1=2%20Miles%20E%20Yountville%20CA&product1=Flash+Flood+Warning&lat=38.4047&lon=-122.3165\" target=\"_blank\">most of the Napa Valley\u003c/a> (through 1:15 p.m.). Flooding was forecast in parts of the valley from Calistoga all the way down to the city of Napa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Napa River \u003ca href=\"http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?s=STH&d=02/07/2017+08:33&span=12hours\" target=\"_blank\">rose above flood stage \u003c/a>near St. Helena about 5 a.m. Tuesday. The California-Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">says the river should crest\u003c/a> there sometime later Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is also expected to just touch flood stage in the city of Napa late Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, the Russian River is expected to crest just below flood level at Guerneville — an area hit by widespread flooding during storms last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If there is some good news for the North Bay amid the swampy conditions, it’s the fact that the heaviest rain has moved to the south. 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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. The CNRFC's next forecast is due out at 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center has updated its forecast for flooding on the Russian River at Guerneville -- and it's not good news for communities along the waterway's lower reaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new forecast, released after 9 p.m., estimates the river will rise to 39.8 feet by Wednesday evening, then recede to below flood level Thursday afternoon. The new forecast is 7.8 feet above flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Sonoma County issued an evacuation advisory based on a flood level of 38.3 feet and estimated about 100 structures would be affected, on top of the 550 that have already been flooded. We don't have a figure yet on how many additional homes and businesses could be in the water as the flood approaches 40 feet. Here's a snippet from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">the general description\u003c/a> of flood impacts from the river forecast center:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>39.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Significant flooding is expected to occur along the lower portions of the Russian River. River Road, along with a few houses, will flood at the town of Hacienda. Armstrong Woods Road, 4th Street, and Mill Street are forecast to flood. The village of Northwood Grove and Monte Rio School are expected to become inundated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>40.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Major flooding is expected along the Russian River. 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. Early Tuesday evening, flood sirens warned residents in flood-prone areas of the Marin communities of Fairfax, San Anselmo and Ross to move to higher ground as local creeks reached capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the main body of Tuesday's storm passed to the east Tuesday evening -- yes, it really looks like the pounding is over for the time being -- Sonoma County still appears to have suffered the most severe impacts of the deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county lists \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\">45 road closures\u003c/a> due to flooding, slides and downed trees or power lines. Large swaths of agricultural land are under water. 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. 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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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. The CNRFC's next forecast is due out at 9 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:35 p.m.: \u003c/strong>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center has updated its forecast for flooding on the Russian River at Guerneville -- and it's not good news for communities along the waterway's lower reaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new forecast, released after 9 p.m., estimates the river will rise to 39.8 feet by Wednesday evening, then recede to below flood level Thursday afternoon. The new forecast is 7.8 feet above flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the day, Sonoma County issued an evacuation advisory based on a flood level of 38.3 feet and estimated about 100 structures would be affected, on top of the 550 that have already been flooded. We don't have a figure yet on how many additional homes and businesses could be in the water as the flood approaches 40 feet. Here's a snippet from \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">the general description\u003c/a> of flood impacts from the river forecast center:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>39.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Significant flooding is expected to occur along the lower portions of the Russian River. River Road, along with a few houses, will flood at the town of Hacienda. Armstrong Woods Road, 4th Street, and Mill Street are forecast to flood. The village of Northwood Grove and Monte Rio School are expected to become inundated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>40.0 Feet\u003c/strong>: Major flooding is expected along the Russian River. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Early Tuesday evening, flood sirens warned residents in flood-prone areas of the Marin communities of Fairfax, San Anselmo and Ross to move to higher ground as local creeks reached capacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the main body of Tuesday's storm passed to the east Tuesday evening -- yes, it really looks like the pounding is over for the time being -- Sonoma County still appears to have suffered the most severe impacts of the deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county lists \u003ca href=\"http://roadconditions.sonoma-county.org/\" target=\"_blank\">45 road closures\u003c/a> due to flooding, slides and downed trees or power lines. Large swaths of agricultural land are under water. 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>\u003cem>Originally posted Jan. 7, 2017\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]f you're obsessively following the latest rainy wallop hitting the Bay Are, here are three views that will show you the action as rendered in one case by Doppler radar and in the others by a combination of weather models, supercomputers and digital visualization geniuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1. \u003cstrong>San Francisco Bay Area Doppler radar\u003c/strong>, via Weather Underground: This is old hat if you're a weather watcher. For online news producers, this rendering of our regional weather radar is great because it's easy to embed and it updates every time you refresh the page.\u003cbr>\n[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MUX&brand=wui&num=10&delay=25&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&mapx=400&mapy=240%C2%A2erx=400%C2%A2ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0&rand=24697214&lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>2. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://earth.nullschool.net/#2017/01/08/0600Z/wind/surface/level/overlay=precip_3hr/orthographic=-127.43,38.34,3000/loc=-122.453,37.760\" target=\"_blank\">Earth\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>: This is a visualization of precipitation for the next three hours based on output from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datasets/global-forcast-system-gfs\" target=\"_blank\">Global Forecasting System\u003c/a> (GFS, for short). You can find a little background on the visualization here: \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/28/california-storm-the-coolest-view-you-will-see-today/\" target=\"_blank\">California's Storm: The Coolest View You Will See Today\u003c/a>. A user tip: Experiment with the visualization. Click on the label that says \"Earth\" in the bottom left-hand corner, and you'll open up a menu that will give you a choice of a variety of different views -- of surface winds, for instance, or for winds at the 850-millibar level (about 5,000 feet above sea level).\u003cbr>\n[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=precip_3hr/orthographic=-129.21,38.26,2922/loc=-126.983,38.872\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>3. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrr/\" target=\"_blank\">NCEP High-Resolution Rapid Refresh\u003c/a>-Simulated Radar Reflectivity\u003c/strong>: Yes, this is somewhat geeky, and it's not super easy to use. But it is very cool: This is the simulated radar output for our region produced by the newish HRRR model. It's called \"rapid refresh\" because it's updated every hour (instead of every six, as is typical for the principal forecast models). Also unlike those models, it's an attempt to estimate weather conditions every hour for the 18 hours after each model run is completed. In effect, it's an attempt to look into the immediate future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The image below is from HRRR's noon Tuesday run, which is the model's forecast for the 18 hours running through 6 p.m.. The image below is a rendering of what the composite radar picture \u003cem>may\u003c/em> look like at 3 a.m. Sunday. That yellow and orange and red stretching from across the coast to San Francisco, the East Bay and beyond? That's a forecast for sustained heavy rain at that hour. (Note that the images are labeled in UTC, or Coordinated Universal Time, the current equivalent of Greenwich Mean Time. That's eight hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time, so 11:00 UTC is 3 a.m. PST.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11263693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 859px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110.png\" alt=\"A simulated radar image from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model, depicting forecast conditions for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017.\" width=\"859\" height=\"930\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11263693\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110.png 859w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-160x173.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-800x866.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-240x260.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-375x406.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/01/hrrr170110-520x563.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 859px) 100vw, 859px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A simulated radar image from the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh weather model, depicting forecast conditions for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's the link to \u003ca href=\"http://rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/HRRR/Welcome.cgi?dsKey=hrrr_ncep_jet&domain=z1&run_time=10+Jan+2017+-+20Z\" target=\"_blank\">images for the first 14 hours\u003c/a> of the noon Tuesday run. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:20 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Here's a bullet-point roundup of our not-quite-concluded Weekend of Storm. Our next regional weather concern is a storm forecast to roll into the region on Tuesday with the potential for more heavy rain over the already very thoroughly soaked North Bay counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flood impacts:\u003c/strong> Minor flooding -- the kind that covers roads and farmland, but doesn't force wholesale evacuations or cause widespread damage -- occurred all over the Bay Area. Many roads around Sonoma County were affected, and U.S. 101 was closed for a time near Windsor. Rapid rises on the Napa River caused limited local flooding in part of the valley north of the city of Napa. Flooded roads at the northern end of the valley prompted the Calistoga school district to cancel classes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest concern going into Monday are conditions along the lower Russian River. With the river expected to crest several feet above flood stage by midday Monday, Sonoma County officials issued a voluntary evacuation advisory for those living in low-lying sections of Guerneville and Monte Rio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel impacts:\u003c/strong> Slides and falling trees shut down both main highways and rural roads throughout the Bay Area and Northern California on Sunday, and some closures could last for days. One notable example on the Peninsula was this one, on Interstate 280:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jeffgreenberg/status/818227196279930880\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full or partial closures were also recorded on: Highway 17, the main route between San Jose and Santa Cruz, because of a fallen tree near the Highway 35 junction; westbound Interstate 80 near Truckee, due to a mudslide; eastbound I-80 near Colfax, due to downed power lines; Highway 49 near Nevada City and Downieville, due to slides; Highway 20 near the Interstate 80 junction, because of flooding (slide). (For more, see \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans Road Conditions lookup\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Power impacts:\u003c/strong> Sunday night, PG&E said 478,000 customers systemwide had lost power during the course of the windy deluge, and 66,000 were still without electricity. In the Bay Area, a total of 240,000 customers lost power at some point during Stormy Sunday, with about 17,000 still in the dark late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Precipitation totals:\u003c/strong> One catches a slight hint of \"really -- \u003cem>that\u003c/em> was a monster storm?\" in some of the online commentary about the weekend's storm. True -- it was not a cataclysm, and it didn't deliver all of the gaudy precipitation totals we have been talking about. But it wasn't a meteorological wimpfest either. Some rain numbers for the 48 hours ending at 7 p.m. Sunday:\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nVenado (western Sonoma County): \u003c/strong>12.31 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Umunhum (Santa Cruz Mountains):\u003c/strong> 8.67 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz Mountains)\u003c/strong>: 7.00 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Tamalpais:\u003c/strong> 4.93 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Diablo:\u003c/strong> 3.97 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills)\u003c/strong>: 3.56 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban totals include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 4.80 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Gatos:\u003c/strong> 3.71 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 3.52 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>St. Mary's College (Moraga):\u003c/strong> 3.22 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento:\u003c/strong> 3.17 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 2.63 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> 2.03 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Concord:\u003c/strong> 1.89 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland: \u003c/strong>1.83 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Livermore:\u003c/strong> 1.50 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Jose Airport:\u003c/strong> 1.28 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:50 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Well, we here at the Berkeley headquarters of KQED's Storm Center 2017 are in full catch-up mode for the time being. Here's our Storify rounding up social media and online news reports of the storm's impact this afternoon (and see our earlier updates below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/tracking-northern-california-s-big-weekend-storm/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Two major themes for the storm in the Bay Area so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theme 1:\u003c/strong> Lots of local roadway flooding and rising streams -- not surprising given the downpours we see falling on saturated soil all across the region. Take a look at the Napa Valley, for instance:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SusieSteimle/status/818209693503864832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flooding seems particularly acute in Sonoma County. Here's an example (and public service announcement) posted by the San Francisco Chronicle's Demian Bulwa:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFGate/status/818173461046509568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The good news for the North Bay is that the worst of the storm appears to have abated. Periods of rain will continue into Monday -- but not serious, sustained intense rain. Meantime, the main focus of the storm has shifted south, where flooding concerns continue in parts of southern/eastern Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theme 2:\u003c/strong> Lots of power outages, with PG&E reporting more than 100,000 customers without power in its service area as of early Sunday afternoon. A quick tally of the hundreds of outages the company is reporting shows more than 40,000 Bay Area customers without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, Bay Area communities with 1,000 or more customers currently suffering outages early Sunday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch: 4,934\u003cbr>\nBodega Bay: 1,746\u003cbr>\nDaly City: 4,060\u003cbr>\nEl Granada: 2,033\u003cbr>\nGuerneville: 1,249\u003cbr>\nLarkspur: 2,935\u003cbr>\nOrinda: 1,870\u003cbr>\nSan Bruno: 1,175\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco: 5,401\u003cbr>\nSan Geronimo: 2,684\u003cbr>\nSan Jose: 6,557\u003cbr>\nSebastopol: 2,981\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major outages outside the Bay Area include about 7,000 customers in the communities of Pine Grove and Pioneer in Amador County, about 3,500 customers in Twain Harte (Sonora County) and 2,500 in the town of Mendocino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:55 a.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> The big storm forecasters have told us for days we could expect this weekend swept across the Bay Area late Saturday night and was causing a mess by early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main area of concern at daybreak is southern and central Sonoma County. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Santa Rosa and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office reported that U.S. 101 was closed in both directions at Windsor, just north of Santa Rosa, and that at least two motorists were rescued from vehicles near Old Redwood Highway and Eastside Road, on Windsor's northern end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waters rose in the North Bay as the dense plume of moisture feeding the storm swung north through the region overnight. After something of a break in the deluge for some areas Sunday morning, the heaviest rain is expected to swing south again before finally tapering off late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E reported \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?WT.pgeac=Alerts_Storms-Outages-Jan17#outages\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of power outages\u003c/a> throughout Northern California affecting tens of thousands of customers, including 21,000 in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most extensive Bay Area outage early Sunday appeared to be in Daly City and adjacent areas of San Francisco, where nearly 6,000 customers were reported without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notes from the nine-county Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center says the Napa River will crest above flood stage in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena \u003c/a> and just at flood stage in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">city of Napa\u003c/a> later Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUDC1\" target=\"_blank\">The Guadalupe River\u003c/a> is also expected to reach flood stage in San Jose Sunday afternoon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Russian River is expected to reach flood stage early Monday morning and crest later in the day with some inundation forecast \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">in Guerneville\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As far as rainfall is concerned, the National Weather Service commented in its early morning forecast discussion that overnight rainfall totals are somewhat less than expected. The highest 12-hour rain totals through 7 a.m. Sunday are mostly where we'd expect, in the northwest Sonoma County hills (4.60 inches at Venado) and Santa Cruz Mountains (2.53 inches at Ben Lomond).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more data, see \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/?product=twelvehourP&product2=&id2=twelvehourP&zoom=8&lat=37.50354438495198&lng=-122.36512518001902&time=undefined&PNGtypeID=undefined&cursorReadout=true&showElev=true&useEst=true&obsTempsChgInvert=false&comboLink=Fcst&CNRFC=true&STATES=false&COUNTIES=false&RIVERS=false&LAKES=false&BASINS=false&BURNAREAS1=false&NATIONALPARKS=false&ElevMax=15000&ElevMin=-500&QPEpointMin=0.00&obsTempspointMax=130&obsTempspointMin=-30&obsTempsChgpointMax=40&obsTempsChgpointMin=-40&SWEpointMin=0&SWEChgMax=20.1&SWEChgMin=-20.1&SDpointMax=400&SDpointMin=0&SDChgMax=100.1&SDChgMin=-100.1&waterTempspointMax=110&waterTempspointMin=25&peakDatesMax=9/30&peakDatesMin=4/1&opacity=65&animateradarrefl=false&animateQPE6hr=false&animateQPF6hr=false&animateQPF24hr=false&animateTempObs6hr=false&animateMaxTFcstMaxT=false&animateMinTFcstMinT=false&animateFzLevel6hrObs=false&animateFzLevel6hrFcst=false&speedradarrefl=-200&speedQPE6hr=-500&speedQPF6hr=-500&speedQPF24hr=-500&speedTempObs6hr=-500&speedMaxTFcstMaxT=-500&speedMinTFcstMinT=-500&speedFzLevel6hrObs=-500&speedFzLevel6hrFcst=-500&cat1=true&cat2=true&cat3=true&cat4=true&cat5=true&cat6=true&cat7=true&precipToggle=precipValues&dataTable=false&mapBG=esriTopo\" target=\"_blank\">the river forecast center's rainfall map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:20 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Here's a bullet-point roundup of our not-quite-concluded Weekend of Storm. Our next regional weather concern is a storm forecast to roll into the region on Tuesday with the potential for more heavy rain over the already very thoroughly soaked North Bay counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flood impacts:\u003c/strong> Minor flooding -- the kind that covers roads and farmland, but doesn't force wholesale evacuations or cause widespread damage -- occurred all over the Bay Area. Many roads around Sonoma County were affected, and U.S. 101 was closed for a time near Windsor. Rapid rises on the Napa River caused limited local flooding in part of the valley north of the city of Napa. Flooded roads at the northern end of the valley prompted the Calistoga school district to cancel classes Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the biggest concern going into Monday are conditions along the lower Russian River. With the river expected to crest several feet above flood stage by midday Monday, Sonoma County officials issued a voluntary evacuation advisory for those living in low-lying sections of Guerneville and Monte Rio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Travel impacts:\u003c/strong> Slides and falling trees shut down both main highways and rural roads throughout the Bay Area and Northern California on Sunday, and some closures could last for days. One notable example on the Peninsula was this one, on Interstate 280:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Full or partial closures were also recorded on: Highway 17, the main route between San Jose and Santa Cruz, because of a fallen tree near the Highway 35 junction; westbound Interstate 80 near Truckee, due to a mudslide; eastbound I-80 near Colfax, due to downed power lines; Highway 49 near Nevada City and Downieville, due to slides; Highway 20 near the Interstate 80 junction, because of flooding (slide). (For more, see \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">Caltrans Road Conditions lookup\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Power impacts:\u003c/strong> Sunday night, PG&E said 478,000 customers systemwide had lost power during the course of the windy deluge, and 66,000 were still without electricity. In the Bay Area, a total of 240,000 customers lost power at some point during Stormy Sunday, with about 17,000 still in the dark late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Precipitation totals:\u003c/strong> One catches a slight hint of \"really -- \u003cem>that\u003c/em> was a monster storm?\" in some of the online commentary about the weekend's storm. True -- it was not a cataclysm, and it didn't deliver all of the gaudy precipitation totals we have been talking about. But it wasn't a meteorological wimpfest either. Some rain numbers for the 48 hours ending at 7 p.m. Sunday:\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nVenado (western Sonoma County): \u003c/strong>12.31 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Umunhum (Santa Cruz Mountains):\u003c/strong> 8.67 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Ben Lomond (Santa Cruz Mountains)\u003c/strong>: 7.00 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Tamalpais:\u003c/strong> 4.93 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Mount Diablo:\u003c/strong> 3.97 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Vollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills)\u003c/strong>: 3.56 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban totals include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Rafael:\u003c/strong> 4.80 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Los Gatos:\u003c/strong> 3.71 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Santa Rosa:\u003c/strong> 3.52 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>St. Mary's College (Moraga):\u003c/strong> 3.22 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Sacramento:\u003c/strong> 3.17 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Richmond:\u003c/strong> 2.63 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Francisco:\u003c/strong> 2.03 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Concord:\u003c/strong> 1.89 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Oakland: \u003c/strong>1.83 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Livermore:\u003c/strong> 1.50 inches\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>San Jose Airport:\u003c/strong> 1.28 inches\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:50 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Well, we here at the Berkeley headquarters of KQED's Storm Center 2017 are in full catch-up mode for the time being. Here's our Storify rounding up social media and online news reports of the storm's impact this afternoon (and see our earlier updates below).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//storify.com/kqednews/tracking-northern-california-s-big-weekend-storm/embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"750\" frameborder=\"no\" allowtransparency=\"true\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> Two major themes for the storm in the Bay Area so far:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theme 1:\u003c/strong> Lots of local roadway flooding and rising streams -- not surprising given the downpours we see falling on saturated soil all across the region. Take a look at the Napa Valley, for instance:\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>The good news for the North Bay is that the worst of the storm appears to have abated. Periods of rain will continue into Monday -- but not serious, sustained intense rain. Meantime, the main focus of the storm has shifted south, where flooding concerns continue in parts of southern/eastern Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Theme 2:\u003c/strong> Lots of power outages, with PG&E reporting more than 100,000 customers without power in its service area as of early Sunday afternoon. A quick tally of the hundreds of outages the company is reporting shows more than 40,000 Bay Area customers without electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to PG&E, Bay Area communities with 1,000 or more customers currently suffering outages early Sunday afternoon include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Antioch: 4,934\u003cbr>\nBodega Bay: 1,746\u003cbr>\nDaly City: 4,060\u003cbr>\nEl Granada: 2,033\u003cbr>\nGuerneville: 1,249\u003cbr>\nLarkspur: 2,935\u003cbr>\nOrinda: 1,870\u003cbr>\nSan Bruno: 1,175\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco: 5,401\u003cbr>\nSan Geronimo: 2,684\u003cbr>\nSan Jose: 6,557\u003cbr>\nSebastopol: 2,981\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major outages outside the Bay Area include about 7,000 customers in the communities of Pine Grove and Pioneer in Amador County, about 3,500 customers in Twain Harte (Sonora County) and 2,500 in the town of Mendocino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 7:55 a.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> The big storm forecasters have told us for days we could expect this weekend swept across the Bay Area late Saturday night and was causing a mess by early Sunday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main area of concern at daybreak is southern and central Sonoma County. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for Santa Rosa and nearby communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office reported that U.S. 101 was closed in both directions at Windsor, just north of Santa Rosa, and that at least two motorists were rescued from vehicles near Old Redwood Highway and Eastside Road, on Windsor's northern end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waters rose in the North Bay as the dense plume of moisture feeding the storm swung north through the region overnight. After something of a break in the deluge for some areas Sunday morning, the heaviest rain is expected to swing south again before finally tapering off late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E reported \u003ca href=\"https://m.pge.com/?WT.pgeac=Alerts_Storms-Outages-Jan17#outages\" target=\"_blank\">dozens of power outages\u003c/a> throughout Northern California affecting tens of thousands of customers, including 21,000 in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most extensive Bay Area outage early Sunday appeared to be in Daly City and adjacent areas of San Francisco, where nearly 6,000 customers were reported without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other notes from the nine-county Bay Area:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center says the Napa River will crest above flood stage in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SHEC1\" target=\"_blank\">St. Helena \u003c/a> and just at flood stage in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">city of Napa\u003c/a> later Sunday.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUDC1\" target=\"_blank\">The Guadalupe River\u003c/a> is also expected to reach flood stage in San Jose Sunday afternoon.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Russian River is expected to reach flood stage early Monday morning and crest later in the day with some inundation forecast \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">in Guerneville\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>As far as rainfall is concerned, the National Weather Service commented in its early morning forecast discussion that overnight rainfall totals are somewhat less than expected. The highest 12-hour rain totals through 7 a.m. Sunday are mostly where we'd expect, in the northwest Sonoma County hills (4.60 inches at Venado) and Santa Cruz Mountains (2.53 inches at Ben Lomond).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Pretty much as forecast, the second wave of our weekend storm arrived in the greater Bay Area late Saturday and Locations in the Santa Cruz Mountains have already gotten an inch or more in the past three hours. Much more is expected there overnight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-resolution models also suggest the heavy rains will move north across the Peninsula by midnight, then into the North Bay before moving south again late Sunday morning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One flood note to mention: The California-Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=POHC1\" target=\"_blank\">outlook for the Merced River\u003c/a> in Yosemite Valley has been revised upward and then downward. Waters are expected to surge past flood stage at after daybreak Sunday and crest at 15.8 feet late Sunday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valley was closed to visitors on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, back to \"7 Things\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (5 p.m. Friday): \u003c/strong>When you're a layperson telling the general public about a great weather cataclysm that's forecast to unfold in the next day or two, it's always in your mind whether the thing will really happen. But we're working on the assumption now that the various highfalutin supercomputer-driven weather models and the humans who interpret them will prove correct in their forecast of a rainy, windy weekend for the Bay Area and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters across California say the storm this weekend, fed by a dense plume of moisture drawn from the subtropical Pacific, will be one of the wettest the state has seen in more than a decade. The weekend could see a foot of rain falling in isolated areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains and in parts of the Sierra foothills. Rain falling over high elevations of the Sierra Nevada will release large volumes of runoff and lead to rises in rivers and streams flowing down to the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"AtAPl6r8zVOC8mNIncYHBpCqoezSHXEr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example of the impact of that spike in runoff and river levels: A rapid rise forecast on the Merced River has prompted the National Park Service to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/all-roads-leading-into-yosemite-valley-to-close-today-at-500-pm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shut down access to Yosemite Valley\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown of what forecasters say we ought to expect over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Timing:\u003c/strong> Depending on the weather model you look at, rain is forecast to begin early this evening in western Sonoma and Marin counties and spread over the entire Bay Area by midnight Friday. On and off precipitation is expected to ramp up Saturday evening. \u003cem>(A favorite site for forecast details and timing: National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area forecast discussion\u003c/a>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Rainfall:\u003c/strong> The region is likely to see a pretty good shot of rain in what forecasters are calling the opening act of the weekend storm. For the period ending 4 p.m. Saturday, the California-Nevada River Forecast Center's precipitation forecast estimates totals of more than 1.5 inches in northern Sonoma County and the Santa Cruz Mountains, about an inch in inland Sonoma and Marin counties, and less than half an inch in San Jose and most interior valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the main plume of subtropical moisture arrives at our part of the coast late Saturday evening, rain rates are expected to increase dramatically, especially along the northern Big Sur Coast, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the hills north of the Golden Gate up to northern Sonoma County. For the 36 hours from 4 p.m. Saturday through 4 a.m. Monday, the CNRFC precipitation forecast estimates totals of 8.33 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountain community of Ben Lomond and 5.36 inches for Venado in northwestern Sonoma. Urban forecasts for the same period, from north to south, include 3.09 inches for Santa Rosa, 3.71 inches for San Rafael, 2.61 inches for San Francisco, and 2.04 inches for San Jose. (\u003cem>A favorite site for following precipitation totals: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/?product=twentyfourhourP&product2=&id2=twentyfourhourP&zoom=7&lat=38.078980099359285&lng=-122.33359044314392&time=undefined&PNGtypeID=undefined&cursorReadout=true&showElev=true&useEst=true&obsTempsChgInvert=false&comboLink=Fcst&CNRFC=true&STATES=false&COUNTIES=false&RIVERS=false&LAKES=false&BASINS=false&BURNAREAS1=false&NATIONALPARKS=false&ElevMax=15000&ElevMin=-500&QPEpointMin=0.00&obsTempspointMax=130&obsTempspointMin=-30&obsTempsChgpointMax=40&obsTempsChgpointMin=-40&SWEpointMin=0&SWEChgMax=20.1&SWEChgMin=-20.1&SDpointMax=400&SDpointMin=0&SDChgMax=100.1&SDChgMin=-100.1&waterTempspointMax=110&waterTempspointMin=25&peakDatesMax=9/30&peakDatesMin=4/1&opacity=65&animateradarrefl=false&animateQPE6hr=false&animateQPF6hr=false&animateQPF24hr=false&animateTempObs6hr=false&animateMaxTFcstMaxT=false&animateMinTFcstMinT=false&animateFzLevel6hrObs=false&animateFzLevel6hrFcst=false&speedradarrefl=-200&speedQPE6hr=-500&speedQPF6hr=-500&speedQPF24hr=-500&speedTempObs6hr=-500&speedMaxTFcstMaxT=-500&speedMinTFcstMinT=-500&speedFzLevel6hrObs=-500&speedFzLevel6hrFcst=-500&cat1=true&cat2=true&cat3=true&cat4=true&cat5=true&cat6=true&cat7=true&precipToggle=precipValues&dataTable=false&mapBG=esriTopo\" target=\"_blank\">CNRFC Observed Precipitation page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Winds:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service says the weekend storm promises two separate episodes of high winds. The first will occur early \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20wind%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday morning to Saturday afternoon\u003c/a>, the second during daylight hours on Sunday. Gusts as high as 60 mph are forecast for the North Bay hills and mountains, East Bay hills and Diablo Range, and the Santa Cruz mountains. Gusty winds are also expected in coastal area from northern Sonoma down to Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Mountains:\u003c/strong> Snow, rain and then snow are forecast throughout the Northern and Central Sierra Nevada. Snow levels are expected to start out low early Saturday, then rise dramatically during the day. The snow level will reach 9,000 feet or so by early Sunday before lowering again to 6,000 feet or below on Monday. (Great site for Lake Tahoe area snow forecasts: \u003ca href=\"https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/tahoe\" target=\"_blank\">Tahoe Daily Snow\u003c/a>. And for broader Sierra forecasts, see the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sto/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/\" target=\"_blank\">Reno\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/hnx/\" target=\"_blank\">Hanford\u003c/a> sites.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Flooding:\u003c/strong> National Weather Service offices throughout Northern California have issued alerts for possible flooding. The Bay Area forecast office has put out a flash flood watch stretching from Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening for Sonoma, Marin and Napa Counties, the San Francisco Bay shoreline, the Peninsula seacoast, the Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">Flood watches\u003c/a> have been issued for virtually the entire Central Valley and the full length of the Sierra foothills. The main reason for that: forecasts for up to 15 inches of rain in the northern foothills in the Feather River basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. More flooding:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center says\u003c/a> dozens of rivers throughout Northern and Central California will be at or near flood stage. That includes rivers that rise and fall very rapidly, as well as the Central Valley's principal rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River, one of those fast-to-rise, fast-to-fall streams, is expected to rise \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">above flood stage at Guerneville\u003c/a> early Monday and crest on early Tuesday. The Sacramento River will reach monitor or flood stage between Red Bluff and the city of Sacramento and begin overflowing a series of weirs designed to divert floodwaters into low-lying bypasses and ease pressure on levees along the waterway. \u003cem>(We're partial to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast site\u003c/a> for flood information and precipitation data.)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Travel conditions:\u003c/strong> There is a high potential for travel impacts this weekend regardless of your mode of travel. Some sites to monitor whether you're planning to drive, ride a train or ferry, or fly: Caltrans road conditions -- both for \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">all highways\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/mtnhwys.htm\" target=\"_blank\">mountain routes\u003c/a>. For Bay Area traffic and transit: \u003ca href=\"http://511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org\u003c/a>. For airport flight status info: see \u003ca href=\"http://www.airportsfo.org/flights/departures\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco International\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandairport.com/airlines/flight-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.flysanjose.com/fl/travelers.php?page=airlines_flights/departures&extn=php\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose\u003c/a> airport sites.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Pretty much as forecast, the second wave of our weekend storm arrived in the greater Bay Area late Saturday and Locations in the Santa Cruz Mountains have already gotten an inch or more in the past three hours. Much more is expected there overnight. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High-resolution models also suggest the heavy rains will move north across the Peninsula by midnight, then into the North Bay before moving south again late Sunday morning. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One flood note to mention: The California-Nevada River Forecast Center \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=POHC1\" target=\"_blank\">outlook for the Merced River\u003c/a> in Yosemite Valley has been revised upward and then downward. Waters are expected to surge past flood stage at after daybreak Sunday and crest at 15.8 feet late Sunday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The valley was closed to visitors on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, back to \"7 Things\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (5 p.m. Friday): \u003c/strong>When you're a layperson telling the general public about a great weather cataclysm that's forecast to unfold in the next day or two, it's always in your mind whether the thing will really happen. But we're working on the assumption now that the various highfalutin supercomputer-driven weather models and the humans who interpret them will prove correct in their forecast of a rainy, windy weekend for the Bay Area and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters across California say the storm this weekend, fed by a dense plume of moisture drawn from the subtropical Pacific, will be one of the wettest the state has seen in more than a decade. The weekend could see a foot of rain falling in isolated areas of the Santa Cruz Mountains and in parts of the Sierra foothills. Rain falling over high elevations of the Sierra Nevada will release large volumes of runoff and lead to rises in rivers and streams flowing down to the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One example of the impact of that spike in runoff and river levels: A rapid rise forecast on the Merced River has prompted the National Park Service to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/yose/learn/news/all-roads-leading-into-yosemite-valley-to-close-today-at-500-pm.htm\" target=\"_blank\">shut down access to Yosemite Valley\u003c/a> over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a rundown of what forecasters say we ought to expect over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. Timing:\u003c/strong> Depending on the weather model you look at, rain is forecast to begin early this evening in western Sonoma and Marin counties and spread over the entire Bay Area by midnight Friday. On and off precipitation is expected to ramp up Saturday evening. \u003cem>(A favorite site for forecast details and timing: National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?prod=XXXAFDMTR&wfo=MTR\" target=\"_blank\">Bay Area forecast discussion\u003c/a>.)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. Rainfall:\u003c/strong> The region is likely to see a pretty good shot of rain in what forecasters are calling the opening act of the weekend storm. For the period ending 4 p.m. Saturday, the California-Nevada River Forecast Center's precipitation forecast estimates totals of more than 1.5 inches in northern Sonoma County and the Santa Cruz Mountains, about an inch in inland Sonoma and Marin counties, and less than half an inch in San Jose and most interior valleys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the main plume of subtropical moisture arrives at our part of the coast late Saturday evening, rain rates are expected to increase dramatically, especially along the northern Big Sur Coast, the Santa Cruz Mountains, and the hills north of the Golden Gate up to northern Sonoma County. For the 36 hours from 4 p.m. Saturday through 4 a.m. Monday, the CNRFC precipitation forecast estimates totals of 8.33 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountain community of Ben Lomond and 5.36 inches for Venado in northwestern Sonoma. Urban forecasts for the same period, from north to south, include 3.09 inches for Santa Rosa, 3.71 inches for San Rafael, 2.61 inches for San Francisco, and 2.04 inches for San Jose. (\u003cem>A favorite site for following precipitation totals: The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/?product=twentyfourhourP&product2=&id2=twentyfourhourP&zoom=7&lat=38.078980099359285&lng=-122.33359044314392&time=undefined&PNGtypeID=undefined&cursorReadout=true&showElev=true&useEst=true&obsTempsChgInvert=false&comboLink=Fcst&CNRFC=true&STATES=false&COUNTIES=false&RIVERS=false&LAKES=false&BASINS=false&BURNAREAS1=false&NATIONALPARKS=false&ElevMax=15000&ElevMin=-500&QPEpointMin=0.00&obsTempspointMax=130&obsTempspointMin=-30&obsTempsChgpointMax=40&obsTempsChgpointMin=-40&SWEpointMin=0&SWEChgMax=20.1&SWEChgMin=-20.1&SDpointMax=400&SDpointMin=0&SDChgMax=100.1&SDChgMin=-100.1&waterTempspointMax=110&waterTempspointMin=25&peakDatesMax=9/30&peakDatesMin=4/1&opacity=65&animateradarrefl=false&animateQPE6hr=false&animateQPF6hr=false&animateQPF24hr=false&animateTempObs6hr=false&animateMaxTFcstMaxT=false&animateMinTFcstMinT=false&animateFzLevel6hrObs=false&animateFzLevel6hrFcst=false&speedradarrefl=-200&speedQPE6hr=-500&speedQPF6hr=-500&speedQPF24hr=-500&speedTempObs6hr=-500&speedMaxTFcstMaxT=-500&speedMinTFcstMinT=-500&speedFzLevel6hrObs=-500&speedFzLevel6hrFcst=-500&cat1=true&cat2=true&cat3=true&cat4=true&cat5=true&cat6=true&cat7=true&precipToggle=precipValues&dataTable=false&mapBG=esriTopo\" target=\"_blank\">CNRFC Observed Precipitation page\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. Winds:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service says the weekend storm promises two separate episodes of high winds. The first will occur early \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=high%20wind%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday morning to Saturday afternoon\u003c/a>, the second during daylight hours on Sunday. Gusts as high as 60 mph are forecast for the North Bay hills and mountains, East Bay hills and Diablo Range, and the Santa Cruz mountains. Gusty winds are also expected in coastal area from northern Sonoma down to Monterey Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>4. Mountains:\u003c/strong> Snow, rain and then snow are forecast throughout the Northern and Central Sierra Nevada. Snow levels are expected to start out low early Saturday, then rise dramatically during the day. The snow level will reach 9,000 feet or so by early Sunday before lowering again to 6,000 feet or below on Monday. (Great site for Lake Tahoe area snow forecasts: \u003ca href=\"https://opensnow.com/dailysnow/tahoe\" target=\"_blank\">Tahoe Daily Snow\u003c/a>. And for broader Sierra forecasts, see the National Weather Service \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/sto/\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/rev/\" target=\"_blank\">Reno\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/hnx/\" target=\"_blank\">Hanford\u003c/a> sites.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>5. Flooding:\u003c/strong> National Weather Service offices throughout Northern California have issued alerts for possible flooding. The Bay Area forecast office has put out a flash flood watch stretching from Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening for Sonoma, Marin and Napa Counties, the San Francisco Bay shoreline, the Peninsula seacoast, the Santa Clara Valley and Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">Flood watches\u003c/a> have been issued for virtually the entire Central Valley and the full length of the Sierra foothills. The main reason for that: forecasts for up to 15 inches of rain in the northern foothills in the Feather River basin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>6. More flooding:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast Center says\u003c/a> dozens of rivers throughout Northern and Central California will be at or near flood stage. That includes rivers that rise and fall very rapidly, as well as the Central Valley's principal rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Russian River, one of those fast-to-rise, fast-to-fall streams, is expected to rise \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\" target=\"_blank\">above flood stage at Guerneville\u003c/a> early Monday and crest on early Tuesday. The Sacramento River will reach monitor or flood stage between Red Bluff and the city of Sacramento and begin overflowing a series of weirs designed to divert floodwaters into low-lying bypasses and ease pressure on levees along the waterway. \u003cem>(We're partial to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/\" target=\"_blank\">California-Nevada River Forecast site\u003c/a> for flood information and precipitation data.)\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>7. Travel conditions:\u003c/strong> There is a high potential for travel impacts this weekend regardless of your mode of travel. Some sites to monitor whether you're planning to drive, ride a train or ferry, or fly: Caltrans road conditions -- both for \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/cgi-bin/roads.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">all highways\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/roadinfo/mtnhwys.htm\" target=\"_blank\">mountain routes\u003c/a>. For Bay Area traffic and transit: \u003ca href=\"http://511.org/\" target=\"_blank\">511.org\u003c/a>. For airport flight status info: see \u003ca href=\"http://www.airportsfo.org/flights/departures\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco International\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.oaklandairport.com/airlines/flight-status/\" target=\"_blank\">Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.flysanjose.com/fl/travelers.php?page=airlines_flights/departures&extn=php\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose\u003c/a> airport sites.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> A deluge in the lowlands, a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada. That's the quick summary of our Tuesday-early Wednesday storm, which has largely eased in the Bay Area and coastal uplands and continues its road-closing onslaught in the high country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick precipitation summary: For the 24 hours ending at 10 a.m. Wednesday, parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains got nearly 7 inches of rain. Ben Lomond, typically one of the wettest locations, got 6.89 inches. Further south, in the Santa Lucia range above Big Sur, Chalk Peak got 11.33 inches during the same time frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the actual nine-county Bay Area, notable totals, in inches, for the past 24 hours include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pescadero (San Mateo coast): 5.75\u003cbr>\nVenado (Sonoma County): 5.68\u003cbr>\nMount Tamalpais: 3.10\u003cbr>\nSt. Mary's College (Moraga): 2.44\u003cbr>\nVollmer Peak (Berkeley Hills): 2.35\u003cbr>\nSanta Rosa: 2.12\u003cbr>\nLos Gatos: 1.64\u003cbr>\nRedwood City: 1.56\u003cbr>\nRichmond: 1.22\u003cbr>\nOakland: 1.02\u003cbr>\nDowntown San Francisco: .84\u003cbr>\nSan Jose International Airport: .25\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The big ski resorts near Donner Pass, Echo Summit and Lake Tahoe reported 3 to 5 feet of snow -- an accumulation dating back to Sunday. Heavy snow Wednesday caused brief closures of both Interstate 80 and U.S. 50. And continuing heavy snow -- as much as 3 inches per hour in some areas -- led the U.S. Forest Service to issue an \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=sto&wwa=avalanche%20warning\">avalanche warning\u003c/a> for back-country areas from Yuba Pass in the northern Sierra down to Ebbetts Pass, south of Lake Tahoe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly dry weather -- though cool and overcast -- is expected at least through late Friday. Forecasters are warning that weekend storm has the potential to be much wetter, bringing a foot or more of rain to coastal mountains and the Sierra foothills and 3 to 6 inches to the central Bay Area. A lot more snow -- several feet at the higher elevations -- is expected in the Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (5:53 p.m. Tuesday): \u003c/strong>The rainy season of 2016-17 has finished its first act -- a fall and early winter marked by heavier-than-normal precipitation across the Bay Area and the rest of Northern California -- and is storming into what's starting out as a turbulent Act Two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weather system that crept into the Bay Area late Monday brought steady rain to much of the Bay Area throughout the day Tuesday, with the heaviest rain expected later Tuesday night. The storm prompted the National Weather Service to issue\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flood%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\"> an advisory\u003c/a> for street, highway and small street flooding throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wettest spots through 5 p.m. Tuesday were Kentfield and Mount Tamalpais in Marin County -- with 2.29 and 2.21 inches respectively -- and the Santa Cruz Mountains community of Ben Lomond, with 2.25 inches. Bayside totals included .61 of an inch at San Francisco International Airport, .52 in Oakland, .35 in downtown San Francisco and .09 at San Jose International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain totals could top 4 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains and 6 inches in the area burned by last summer's \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4888/\" target=\"_blank\">Soberanes Fire\u003c/a>, inland from Big Sur. The expected deluge prompted \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watches\u003c/a> in the Santa Cruz Mountains through Wednesday morning and in the Soberanes burn area through Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, fed by moist air from the subtropical Pacific, also brought very heavy snow and high winds to the Sierra Nevada and triggered a series of \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=winter%20storm%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">winter storm warnings\u003c/a>. Forecasters say more than 3 feet of snow could fall by Thursday morning at Donner Pass on Interstate 80 and Echo Summit on U.S. 50, the main routes to Lake Tahoe and Sierra ski resorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current storm should pass by late Wednesday, opening the way for cold, dry weather on Thursday and Friday. That respite will end Saturday, when a second, much more potent storm is expected to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Garcia, the warning coordination meteorologist for the Bay Area National Weather Service office in Monterey, said that storm could bring 5 to 7 inches of rain over the weekend to coastal and valley locations near San Francisco Bay and 15 to 17 inches to ridges and mountains north of the Golden Gate, to parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains and into the mountains above Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of the current storm, the weekend deluge raises the possibility of flooding at many locations in the region, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're saturating the ground with this system right now,\" he said. \"We're not going to have a lot of time to dry out before the storm arrives this weekend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas that saw rapid stream rises during heavy rains in December -- including \u003ca href=\"http://www.rossvalleyfire.org/services/creek-levels-weather\" target=\"_blank\">Corte Madera, San Anselmo and Fairfax creeks\u003c/a> in Marin County; the Napa River at St. Helena and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">north end\u003c/a> of the city of Napa; and \u003ca href=\"https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=11159200\" target=\"_blank\">Corralitos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=11160000\" target=\"_blank\">Soquel\u003c/a> creeks near Santa Cruz -- could see the possibility of high water again over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mostly dry weather -- though cool and overcast -- is expected at least through late Friday. Forecasters are warning that weekend storm has the potential to be much wetter, bringing a foot or more of rain to coastal mountains and the Sierra foothills and 3 to 6 inches to the central Bay Area. A lot more snow -- several feet at the higher elevations -- is expected in the Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post (5:53 p.m. Tuesday): \u003c/strong>The rainy season of 2016-17 has finished its first act -- a fall and early winter marked by heavier-than-normal precipitation across the Bay Area and the rest of Northern California -- and is storming into what's starting out as a turbulent Act Two.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A weather system that crept into the Bay Area late Monday brought steady rain to much of the Bay Area throughout the day Tuesday, with the heaviest rain expected later Tuesday night. The storm prompted the National Weather Service to issue\u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flood%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\"> an advisory\u003c/a> for street, highway and small street flooding throughout the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wettest spots through 5 p.m. Tuesday were Kentfield and Mount Tamalpais in Marin County -- with 2.29 and 2.21 inches respectively -- and the Santa Cruz Mountains community of Ben Lomond, with 2.25 inches. Bayside totals included .61 of an inch at San Francisco International Airport, .52 in Oakland, .35 in downtown San Francisco and .09 at San Jose International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain totals could top 4 inches in the Santa Cruz Mountains and 6 inches in the area burned by last summer's \u003ca href=\"https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/4888/\" target=\"_blank\">Soberanes Fire\u003c/a>, inland from Big Sur. The expected deluge prompted \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=flash%20flood%20watch\" target=\"_blank\">flash flood watches\u003c/a> in the Santa Cruz Mountains through Wednesday morning and in the Soberanes burn area through Wednesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, fed by moist air from the subtropical Pacific, also brought very heavy snow and high winds to the Sierra Nevada and triggered a series of \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=winter%20storm%20warning\" target=\"_blank\">winter storm warnings\u003c/a>. Forecasters say more than 3 feet of snow could fall by Thursday morning at Donner Pass on Interstate 80 and Echo Summit on U.S. 50, the main routes to Lake Tahoe and Sierra ski resorts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current storm should pass by late Wednesday, opening the way for cold, dry weather on Thursday and Friday. That respite will end Saturday, when a second, much more potent storm is expected to arrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brian Garcia, the warning coordination meteorologist for the Bay Area National Weather Service office in Monterey, said that storm could bring 5 to 7 inches of rain over the weekend to coastal and valley locations near San Francisco Bay and 15 to 17 inches to ridges and mountains north of the Golden Gate, to parts of the Santa Cruz Mountains and into the mountains above Big Sur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming on the heels of the current storm, the weekend deluge raises the possibility of flooding at many locations in the region, Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're saturating the ground with this system right now,\" he said. \"We're not going to have a lot of time to dry out before the storm arrives this weekend.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Areas that saw rapid stream rises during heavy rains in December -- including \u003ca href=\"http://www.rossvalleyfire.org/services/creek-levels-weather\" target=\"_blank\">Corte Madera, San Anselmo and Fairfax creeks\u003c/a> in Marin County; the Napa River at St. Helena and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=APCC1\" target=\"_blank\">north end\u003c/a> of the city of Napa; and \u003ca href=\"https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=11159200\" target=\"_blank\">Corralitos\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/uv?site_no=11160000\" target=\"_blank\">Soquel\u003c/a> creeks near Santa Cruz -- could see the possibility of high water again over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:25 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> The drying out starts ... now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm that swamped the Bay Area and prompted flash flood warnings, inundated roads and triggered rock and mud slides from Sonoma County into Monterey County has moved south. After a few showers late Thursday and early Friday, the region is in for what appears to be at least a week of non-rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The torrents of rain -- which brought anywhere from an inch to nearly 3 inches of rain in most valley and bayside locations while soaking hills and ridges with between 5 and 7 inches since the storm's onset late Wednesday -- caused rapid rises on the Russian and Napa rivers and brought both streams to near flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Marin County, several creeks briefly surged past flood stage, prompting warnings and an evacuation of downtown San Anselmo. Creeks also rose out of their banks in several locations in Santa Rosa and Petaluma in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gusty winds buffeted the region's higher terrain most of the day. The National Weather Service reported gusts hitting 50 mph or more in every Bay Area county except San Francisco, which recorded gusts in the 30-mph range.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain and high winds caused the cancellation of about 90 flights into and out of San Francisco International Airport. Oakland and San Jose airports reported no cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm leaves most of Northern California well above normal for rainfall this season. North State reservoirs are showing the effects of our copious fall rains, with virtually every major reservoir at levels that are well above average for mid-December. We'll offer some of that data on Friday\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The departing storm will be followed by an extended period of dry -- and initially cold -- weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lows in some of the Bay Area valleys could fall into the 20s over the weekend. Highs will range from the upper 40s to the low 50s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/images/precipMaps/sf_24HRprecip.png?random=207889856\" width=\"620\" height=\"806\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> If you've been out on the road or looking out a window anywhere in the vicinity of San Francisco, you know it's raining. If you've been confined to an isolation tank, let us provide some details about the outdoor proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain that weather models forecast would pound the Bay Area has arrived in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties with a vengeance and is continuing its very slow progress to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 1 p.m., the continuing deluge prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning for southeastern Sonoma and northern Marin counties. Specifics about the warned areas, per the weather service:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Automated stream gauges have reported water levels rising above flood stage on Willow Brook in Penngrove Park in Petaluma, Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente, Copeland Creek in Rohnert Park, Colgan Creek near Sebastopol, and other creeks in the lower Laguna de Santa Rosa west of the city of Santa Rosa. There have also been reports of flooding in other lowland valley settings in southern Sonoma County and northern Marin County, as well as roadway flooding.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a look at the current weather radar, by way of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/ca/san-francisco/mux/?lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San%20Francisco%2c%20CA\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Underground\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MUX&brand=wui&num=10&delay=25&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&mapx=400&mapy=240%C2%A2erx=400%C2%A2ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0&rand=24697214&lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rough key to the colors on the map: green means rain is falling; yellow means rain is pounding down; orange means you're wondering where you left your hip waders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP is reporting numerous instances of flooded highways and freeways, including Interstate 80 in San Francisco at the split with U.S. 101, at several places on 101 in Marin County and in southern Sonoma County at the junction of Highways 37 and 121. The CHP also reported dozens of traffic collisions related to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we said earlier, the usual wet locations in northern Sonoma County got a good soaking earlier in the day, with Venado (\"The Deer\"), west of Healdsburg, recording 4.40 inches of rain between midnight and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals closer to the Golden Gate have risen sharply as the storm system trundles south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County's Charles M. Schulz Airport had gotten 1.60 inches in the six hours ending at noon. A host of rain gauges in the Petaluma area all showed an inch or more in the same period. Kentfield, on the northeastern flank of Mount Tamalpais, picked up 1.26 inches, including a startling .75 between 11 a.m. and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals quickly drop to the south, with just .18 of an inch recorded at San Francisco International Airport, .08 in downtown San Francisco, and .01 at Oakland International and San Jose International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz Mountains had also gotten a decent shot of rain by midday, with a gauge in the community of Ben Lomond recording .79 of an inch. Soquel, at the foot of the hills east of Santa Cruz, picked up .91.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The copious North Bay precipitation prompted the National Weather Service to issue an urban and small stream flood \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=CAZ507&warncounty=CAC041&firewxzone=CAZ507&local_place1=3%20Miles%20NW%20Woodacre%20CA&product1=Flood+Advisory&lat=38.0323&lon=-122.6751#.WFL_96IrKYV\" target=\"_blank\">advisory\u003c/a> through 4:15 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has prompted a series of high-water advisories from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center. Rivers expected to reach flood state include the Navarro, in Mendocino County, and the lower reaches of the Eel, south of Eureka.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center said the Russian River at Guerneville will see a steep rise from its current level of 9 feet to 30.7 feet by midday Friday. That will exceed the river's monitor stage -- the level at which forecasters urge nearby residents and authorities to take action to protect property -- but only minor flooding is expected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 8 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> A wet, windy storm continues to crawl down the coast north of San Francisco early Thursday, carrying what forecasters promise will be one of our most intense dousings of the rainy season so far and terrible travel conditions throughout much of the afternoon and evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, fed by a relatively rich plume of water vapor originating near the Hawaiian Islands, has been focused for the past day or so on the coast of Northern California and Oregon, where it has dumped torrents of rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm is also expected to bring lots of rain -- and some snow -- in the Sierra. Heavy rain in the mountains above Yosemite is expected to trigger a rapid rise on the Merced River in Yosemite National Park, possibly closing roads in Yosemite Valley late Thursday and Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By late Wednesday into early Thursday, the heavy rain had made its way as far south as northern Sonoma County. Venado, the famously wet hillside location west of Healdsburg, got 4.60 inches between 7 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Thursday. More sheltered sites, like Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport just outside Santa Rosa, got just .29 of an inch during the same period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11221223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11221223\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg\" alt=\"Infrared image from NOAA's GOES West satellite shows storm hitting California coast Thursday morning.\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm.jpg 720w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/12/satellitestorm-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Infrared image from NOAA's GOES West satellite shows storm hitting California coast Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service says the heaviest rain is expected to reach the Golden Gate by noon, and the storm will move slowly south, sweeping through the Santa Clara Valley late in the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The potential for a transportation mess moved one National Weather Service forecaster to write Wednesday, \"The main front will work its way through the heart of the Bay Area during the afternoon and evening hours of Thursday setting the stage for a horrendous afternoon commute. ...\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Horrendous.\" Not a word you see much in NWS communications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service forecasts the storm, which had reached central Sonoma County in time for the morning commute, would bring between 1 to 2 inches of rain to most bayside and valley locations by midnight. Coastal hills and mountains will see a lot more rain -- 5 inches or more, the NWS says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the story on the rain. The storm is expected to be very windy, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters have issued \u003ca href=\"http://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=mtr&wwa=wind%20advisory\" target=\"_blank\">a wind advisory\u003c/a> for the Bay Area warning of sustained winds of 25 to 35 mph with gusts of 50 mph in higher terrain late Thursday afternoon until late in the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The predicted deluge, which coincides with unusually high tides, also threatens widespread flooding of roadways near the bay, including U.S. 101 in Marin and San Mateo counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain has triggered rapid rises on both small coastal rivers that are quick to rise and fall and on Northern California's mother river, the Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California-Nevada River Forecast Center is forecasting brief flooding on the Navarro River in Mendocino County and the Eel in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center forecasts high water at several locations on the Sacramento between Red Bluff and the state capital. The rising river will flow into bypass channels created to ease pressure on the river's levee system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain totals for the 24 hours ending 7 a.m. Thursday ranged from 5 to nearly 7 inches in the wettest locations of northwestern California, including 6.80 inches at Honeydew and 6.34 at Cooskie Mountain in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain is forecast to end in most Bay Area locations by early Friday, to be followed by colder and clearing weather. Lows in some of the region's valley locations could fall into the 20s over the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outlook for the coming week, forecasters say, is dry.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain and high winds caused the cancellation of about 90 flights into and out of San Francisco International Airport. Oakland and San Jose airports reported no cancellations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm leaves most of Northern California well above normal for rainfall this season. North State reservoirs are showing the effects of our copious fall rains, with virtually every major reservoir at levels that are well above average for mid-December. We'll offer some of that data on Friday\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The departing storm will be followed by an extended period of dry -- and initially cold -- weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lows in some of the Bay Area valleys could fall into the 20s over the weekend. Highs will range from the upper 40s to the low 50s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/images/precipMaps/sf_24HRprecip.png?random=207889856\" width=\"620\" height=\"806\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:30 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> If you've been out on the road or looking out a window anywhere in the vicinity of San Francisco, you know it's raining. If you've been confined to an isolation tank, let us provide some details about the outdoor proceedings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heavy rain that weather models forecast would pound the Bay Area has arrived in Marin, Sonoma and Napa counties with a vengeance and is continuing its very slow progress to the south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just before 1 p.m., the continuing deluge prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flash flood warning for southeastern Sonoma and northern Marin counties. Specifics about the warned areas, per the weather service:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Automated stream gauges have reported water levels rising above flood stage on Willow Brook in Penngrove Park in Petaluma, Sonoma Creek at Agua Caliente, Copeland Creek in Rohnert Park, Colgan Creek near Sebastopol, and other creeks in the lower Laguna de Santa Rosa west of the city of Santa Rosa. There have also been reports of flooding in other lowland valley settings in southern Sonoma County and northern Marin County, as well as roadway flooding.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Here's a look at the current weather radar, by way of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/ca/san-francisco/mux/?lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San%20Francisco%2c%20CA\" target=\"_blank\">Weather Underground\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[http_redir]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://radblast.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/radar/WUNIDS_map?station=MUX&brand=wui&num=10&delay=25&type=N0R&frame=0&scale=1.000&noclutter=0&showstorms=0&mapx=400&mapy=240%C2%A2erx=400%C2%A2ery=240&transx=0&transy=0&showlabels=1&severe=0&rainsnow=0&lightning=0&smooth=0&rand=24697214&lat=37.77999878&lon=-122.41999817&label=San+Francisco%2C+CA\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rough key to the colors on the map: green means rain is falling; yellow means rain is pounding down; orange means you're wondering where you left your hip waders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHP is reporting numerous instances of flooded highways and freeways, including Interstate 80 in San Francisco at the split with U.S. 101, at several places on 101 in Marin County and in southern Sonoma County at the junction of Highways 37 and 121. The CHP also reported dozens of traffic collisions related to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we said earlier, the usual wet locations in northern Sonoma County got a good soaking earlier in the day, with Venado (\"The Deer\"), west of Healdsburg, recording 4.40 inches of rain between midnight and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals closer to the Golden Gate have risen sharply as the storm system trundles south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County's Charles M. Schulz Airport had gotten 1.60 inches in the six hours ending at noon. A host of rain gauges in the Petaluma area all showed an inch or more in the same period. Kentfield, on the northeastern flank of Mount Tamalpais, picked up 1.26 inches, including a startling .75 between 11 a.m. and noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rainfall totals quickly drop to the south, with just .18 of an inch recorded at San Francisco International Airport, .08 in downtown San Francisco, and .01 at Oakland International and San Jose International.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz Mountains had also gotten a decent shot of rain by midday, with a gauge in the community of Ben Lomond recording .79 of an inch. 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