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The only period that surpassed the recent series of storms came in January 1862, in the midst of the wettest recorded winter in the city’s history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/ggweather/status/1615026485932486657\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monday and Tuesday’s lull in the rainy onslaught is allowing rivers and streams throughout the state to drop below flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a briefing Monday, the California Department of Water Resources said the series of storms — each of which wrung heavy precipitation out of a series of atmospheric rivers wafting in to the California coast from the southwest — has given a much-needed boost to the state’s reservoirs and snowpack after two very dry winters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/CIRA_CSU/status/1615077858673856513\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Climatologist Michael Anderson said the snowpack, the “frozen reservoir” that in a “normal” year provides one-third of the state’s water supply, is at “epic levels.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11937849,science_1981234,news_11937367\"]Anderson noted that the storms that began rolling in after Dec. 26 were relatively cold. That meant virtually all of the precipitation that fell at higher elevations came down as snow. The result is a statewide snowpack that is currently 247% of average for this time of year — and 120% of its average level on April 1 — traditionally considered the peak date for the Sierra snowpack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re ahead of the record snowpack of 1982–83,” Anderson said. He added that the huge surplus of water currently locked up as snow in the mountains could pose a challenge later in the wet season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Looking to the future, this does set the stage for potentially dealing with flood issues as we move through the snowmelt season,” Anderson said. 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"content": "\u003cp>I never paid much attention to my house’s electrical panel, until a huge blue spruce next door crashed down on our driveway and adjacent power lines, ripping my panel off the wall during a storm on Jan. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately, our street in Oakland went dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E crews restored service to the rest of my neighbors the next day. But not for us. Instead, our household has spent 10 long days without electricity, and counting. Trying to repair that box and get our lights back on has been a bureaucratic ordeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the damaged electrical panel and service line were on private property, we discovered we are on the hook for thousands of dollars in repairs — at least, until and unless our insurance covers the cost. And before an electrician could even start the work, we had to apply for a city permit and other documents, according to representatives with the Oakland Planning and Building Department and PG&E.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Eric Kofoed, Farida's husband\"]‘It’s very frustrating. If it was really treated as an emergency, things would get done quicker. The permitting just adds more barriers or more hurdles to get over.’[/pullquote]“It feels really sad that we still don’t have power,” said my daughter Anisha, 8, summing up the feeling inside our house on a recent cold evening. “Usually, we have lights and it’s easier to do stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2.3 million PG&E customers in California have experienced power outages since the storms on New Year’s Eve, according to the utility. The series of atmospheric river storms pounding the state have toppled trees, caused major flooding and evacuations, and led to the deaths of at least 19 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most customers, about 92%, have been reconnected to service within 24 hours, said PG&E. But others are seeing much longer delays, as crews struggle to access sites safely for repairs, or for other reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand how important electricity is for keeping you and your family safe in the winter months, and we will continue working tirelessly to restore power,” said Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson. “This is the largest storm response in company history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The utility said it has 5,000 personnel responding to the historic deluge conditions throughout its \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/profile/profile.page\">service area\u003c/a>, which spans from Bakersfield in the south to Eureka in the north. That figure includes contractors and other professionals brought in to help from states like Wisconsin and New Mexico, and even Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear how many Bay Area residents have dealt with extended outages like mine. Building inspection departments in Oakland, San Francisco and San José told me they haven’t seen a dramatic spike in permit applications for these kinds of electrical repairs yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with hundreds of reports of downed trees, flooding and water-saturated soils, electricians like Phil Lopes are fielding a lot of calls from distressed residents facing damage to their property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s happening more frequently because of the storms,” said Lopes, who owns PSL Electric in Oakland and was born and raised in the Bay Area. “I haven’t seen so many downed trees since I’ve been living out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The long journey to restore power\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In our case, it took about two days to get a contractor to remove the mass of tree limbs and branches that blocked our driveway and garage. Chain saw sounds reverberated through the neighborhood as passersby contemplated the wreckage. It felt like progress when I could finally drive my car out of the garage onto the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But despair started sinking in shortly after, on a Friday, when we submitted a request to PG&E for the first document we were told we needed to start electrical repairs — a confirmation of discussion, or \u003ca href=\"https://cao-94612.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/PGE-COD021119.pdf\">COD (PDF)\u003c/a>, approving the location of the new panel. Right off the bat, a company representative said they wouldn’t be able to get to it until at least the following Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, we needed a city permit approving the project and an inspection. I tried visiting the Oakland Planning and Building offices slightly after 2 p.m., but they were closed; due to the pandemic, the agency is \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/resources/planning-building-reopening-services-permit-processes\">open to walk-ins\u003c/a> only on Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very frustrating,” said Eric, my husband, while slumped on our couch, wearing a headlamp. “If it was really treated as an emergency, things would get done quicker. The permitting just adds more hurdles to get over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After additional calls to PG&E, city representatives sped their end of the process up. Two Planning and Building staffers called my KQED phone the same morning, offering to help. One of them said someone at the utility had given them a heads-up about our situation. The day before, I had asked PG&E questions as a reporter for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938123\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A man with a beanie prepares to work next to a garage door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62025_IMG_6850-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Lopes, owner of PSL Electric in Oakland, prepares to work on repairs needed to restore power to a home on Jan. 10, 2023. Lopes and other electricians said they have received many calls from distressed residents in need of electrical repairs due to the storms battering California. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mercifully, the city department granted the permit the day we were able to apply, and sent an inspector to review the repairs by Lopes hours after they were completed. But they also clarified that the PG&E approval we spent three days waiting for wasn’t needed after all, because … it was an emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why were we told to jump through that hoop? I couldn’t get an answer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be clear, the COD is not required for emergency repairs,” said the city’s building department in a statement. Typically, however, a city inspector examining electrical work on-site will verify that the information on the COD is accurate and up to code and sign off on it for PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a condition that PG&E has put in place, not the City of Oakland,” the building department added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco and San José told me they don’t require that step for this kind of repair. (PG&E did not respond to questions on why it is needed in Oakland.) But you still need a permit and inspection. Patrick Hannan, with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection, said that’s to prevent safety hazards like fires, electric shock and electrical shorts that can damage a property, or adjacent ones.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Anisha, 8\"]‘It feels really sad that we still don’t have power. Usually, we have lights and it’s easier to do stuff.’[/pullquote]“An electrical permit is required to make sure the repair work has been done safely and is code compliant,” Hannan said. “For power outages on private property, the length of time to restore energy is largely dependent on how long it takes the owner to hire a contractor and the contractor to repair the damaged components. Once we are contacted for an inspection, we try to get an electrical inspector to the site within a couple of hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, we can cook, take showers and keep our refrigerator and cellphones going at our place thanks to a noisy generator that we run from morning to dusk. But extended outages could spell disaster for others. Households where residents may be using medical equipment essential for life are especially at risk, said Mark Toney, who directs TURN, The Utility Reform Network, in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Accommodations for the medically vulnerable\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sarkissian, with PG&E, said they are working with counties and tribes to fulfill nearly 300 requests for small generators for customers with long outages. Older adults and people with disabilities may be eligible for portable batteries, lodging, food replacement and transportation through a \u003ca href=\"https://disabilitydisasteraccess.org/\">disaster access\u003c/a> initiative the utility said it’s supporting. And PG&E has the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pge.com/en_US/residential/save-energy-money/help-paying-your-bill/longer-term-assistance/medical-condition-related/medical-baseline-allowance/medical-baseline-allowance.page\">Medical Baseline Program\u003c/a>, which offers extra notifications about outages to medically vulnerable people who sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Toney said most of those who are eligible don’t know about the program and may not be getting the help they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938120\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A downed and broken electrical panel.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62021_IMG_6814-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A damaged electrical panel lies on the ground after a tree fell on service lines and dislodged it from the wall on Jan. 4, 2023, in Oakland. The home’s residents haven’t had power for more than 10 days. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“PG&E must work closer with county health departments, closer with community-based organizations that are serving vulnerable populations to build up the list of Medical Baseline to get more people signed up so that they can be reached when we have these emergencies,” said Toney, of TURN.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At our house, my kids keep asking when we’ll be able to switch the lights on. Anisha, a third grader, already has a plan for what she’ll do when life regains normalcy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m going to play with my dolls that I got for Christmas, and color without having to bring a flashlight,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We now have a brand-new electrical panel and service line. But getting reconnected to power may still take a few more days, a PG&E representative said, as torrential rains and widespread outages continue through next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 12 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> More rain and snow fell during the weekend in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">storm-battered California\u003c/a>, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of thunderstorms with gusty winds started Saturday in the north and spread south, with yet another atmospheric river storm following close behind Sunday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to 2 inches of rain was predicted for the saturated Sacramento Valley, where residents of semi-rural Wilton, home to about 5,000 people, were ordered to evacuate as the Cosumnes River continued to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 3 inches of snow and gusty winds were expected in the Sierra Nevada. Interstate 80, a key highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lake Tahoe ski resorts, reopened after being closed most of Saturday because of slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Sunday morning that it received 21.5 inches of snow in 24 hours. Its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area, through Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol rescued three people whose car slid off a rain-slicked road and ended up teetering at the edge of a cliff in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Friday. The occupants of the car “were scared for their lives and were in disbelief” when they were pulled safely from the car as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CHPSantaCruz/\">the vehicle’s front end hung precariously over the cliff’s edge\u003c/a>, the highway patrol said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stress this enough. Please ONLY drive if it’s necessary,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to the south in Santa Cruz County, the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was under an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County. To the east, flood warnings were in effect for Merced County in the agricultural Central Valley, where Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Saturday to take stock of problems and warn of still more possible danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not done,” Newsom said. He urged people to be vigilant about safety for a few more days, when the last of a parade of nine atmospheric rivers was expected to move through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for mountain areas, where many roads remained impassable because of mud and rock slides. Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Castaic in northern Los Angeles County were closed indefinitely after a hillside collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series of storms has dumped rain and snow on California since late December, cutting power to thousands, swamping roads, unleashing debris flows, and triggering \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">landslides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in the state and ordered federal aid to supplement local recovery efforts in affected areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 19 storm-related deaths have occurred, and a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-natural-disasters-paso-robles-0ed27eb4cf8696fa57d9bf4e170538bc\">5-year-old boy remained missing\u003c/a> after being swept out of his mother’s car by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry days are in this week’s forecast for California starting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 6:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Sacramento County’s Office of Emergency Services has issued an evacuation order for the Wilton Area due to an anticipated rise in the Cosumnes River levels. The evacuation orders are an upgrade from the warning earlier and will be in effect from 4:32 p.m. Saturday to 4:32 a.m. Sunday. Areas impacted are within the area of Highway 16 and Grantline West to Highway 99, South to Valensin, and North East to Dillard and Highway 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11938170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png\" alt=\"A flood chart showing potential flooding.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-1020x793.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-160x124.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter is located at the Chabolla Center, 600 Chabolla Avenue, Galt, CA 95632. Call 211 for additional information. Report flooded roads by calling 311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 3 p.m. Saturday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3635-county-outage-information-update-1-10-8-00-pm\">PG&E had 5,258 customers without power\u003c/a> in the nine Bay Area counties, with another 5,326 customers without power in Santa Cruz County. For more information, see PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">power outage map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and wind advisory for the Bay Area that runs from 3 a.m. Saturday through 9 a.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locations prone to tidal flooding in coastal areas will likely see coastal flooding caused by a combination of high tidal cycles, onshore winds, heavy runoff and continued rainfall, the weather service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County today, for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/Portals/0/County/CAO/press%20releases/2023/PR%201.14.23%20South%20County%20evac.pdf\">low-lying areas of Corralitos or Salsipuedes Creeks (PDF)\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514415440877803&set=pcb.514415770877770\">Rio Del Mar Esplanade\u003c/a>, and the low-lying residences along \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514376710881676&set=pcb.514378467548167\">Soquel Wharf Road, Soquel Village and 3060 Porter Street\u003c/a>. County officials also said evacuations were underway in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614366980852842496\">Holohan/East Lake/College, PAJ-E015, E024, E026, E027, E028\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Lorenzo River rose rapidly today, \u003ca href=\"https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mtr&gage=btec1&refresh=true\">reaching major flooding stage by midday before dropping back to moderate flooding stage\u003c/a> by 3 p.m. Emergency evacuations were underway in Felton Grove in Santa Cruz County as water levels rise, county officials said Saturday morning. Shelter sites at Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds remain open, county officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great visit from our federal, state and local officials to survey storm damage throughout Santa Cruz County. Thank you \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimmyPanetta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJimmyPanetta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenJohnLaird?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenJohnLaird\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmDawnAddis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmDawnAddis\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmGailPellerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmGailPellerin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bruce_McPherson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bruce_McPherson\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zachfriend55?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zachfriend55\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAStateParksSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CAStateParksSC\u003c/a> for hosting this stop at SeacliffSB. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/ISPLMEtrA8\">pic.twitter.com/ISPLMEtrA8\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614102709027901440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, evacuation orders have been issued for low-lying areas of Carmel River, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday in an alert sent out at 1 p.m. The order includes the Carmel River north of Klondike Canyon Road/Carmel Valley Road and south of Rancho San Carlos Road. The order upgraded evacuation warnings to evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation warnings for areas near Las Lomas were also effective immediately until further notice due to the storm, county officials said just after noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Highway 1 is closed in Point Reyes between Mesa and Cypress roads, Marin County officials said Saturday morning. PG&E is responding due to power lines that went down, officials said on social media. The closure is expected to last for most of the day. About 851 PG&E customers are affected by the outage, according to officials, who added that residents and the traveling public should avoid the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN\u003cbr>Have you heard about the atmospheric rivers hitting CA but aren't sure what they are? Learn all about atmospheric rivers & how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NOAA\u003c/a> researches them in this new web article that explores the causes & impacts of these intense weather events: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Et7NFlvgvz\">https://t.co/Et7NFlvgvz\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/CP1jImsRkJ\">pic.twitter.com/CP1jImsRkJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NOAA Research (@NOAAResearch) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAAResearch/status/1613584352432263169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 2 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Storm-battered California got more wind, rain and snow today, raising flooding concerns, causing power outages and making travel dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of rain with gusty winds started in the north and spread south, with more storms expected to follow into early next week, the National Weather Service said, adding “lighter rainfall could continue Sunday with another ramp-up late Sunday into early Monday ahead of a second system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 68,000 utility customers were without electricity by late morning, according to \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/\">poweroutage.us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood warnings were issued for the region north of San Francisco Bay, including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin counties.[aside postID=\"news_11936674\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-1-1020x680.jpg\"]A \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/01/13/fairfax-landslide-damages-homes-as-marin-storm-trials-continue/\">landslide in Fairfax, Marin County\u003c/a>, damaged six apartments and displaced 19 residents as the county continued to grapple with the effects of a drenching month, reported the Marin Independent Journal on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slide happened at a complex on Olema Road, sending mud and debris at the residences and in some spots breaking through walls, doors and windows, said Marin County Fire Department Chief Jason Weber in an interview with Marin Independent Journal reporter Alex N. Gecan. No injuries were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the fact that our soils are completely saturated, we’re going to see quite a bit of land movement around the county,” Weber said. “Those that live on or around hillsides need to be cognizant of this, and make sure that their drainage is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, warnings were posted for parts of counties including San Mateo and Santa Cruz, where the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was ordered evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county of Santa Cruz on Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/portals/0/county/CAO/press%20releases/2023/AssistanceRequest.01.13.2023.pdf\">formally requested state and federal assistance (PDF)\u003c/a> through the California Disaster Assistance Act on behalf of the region “to assist with losses and emergency repairs as a result of damages cause by the atmospheric winter storms which began on December 30, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County, and to the east, flood warnings were in effect for the San Joaquin Valley community of Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions plagued highways through the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Saturday morning that it received 21.3 inches of snow in 24 hours and that its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/\">avalanche warning\u003c/a> was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5:30 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> California will see another round of stormy weather through the weekend and into next week, in an unwelcome continuation of the atmospheric river pattern that has been soaking the state for the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief respite of dry weather on Thursday, rain — heavy at times — returned to the Bay Area Friday morning, with the possibility of more thunderstorms Friday afternoon and into the evening, particularly in the North Bay, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say a new, similar cold front is likely to bring more intense rain Saturday morning, raising a new round of flood concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind advisory has also been issued for the Bay Area for Saturday, from 4 a.m. to noon, with possible gusts of up to 50 mph possible in higher elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, falling debris, downed power lines and downed trees are once again expected to threaten human life throughout the storm’s duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief lull Sunday morning, yet another storm system, this time a warm front, is expected to reach the region by Sunday afternoon, with lighter but more consistent rain expected through Monday, said Eleanor Dhuyvetter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service based in Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know especially with the [49ers] playoff game tomorrow, people might be out and about, so do make sure to be aware of flash-flood warnings and especially be cautious with driving,” she said. “We’ve seen videos of a lot of potholes and sinkholes, which do creep up in areas that have had a lot of water … and that’s a lot of areas right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new wave of precipitation prompted the NWS to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">new flood watch\u003c/a> Friday for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, remaining in effect through Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay and Santa Cruz and Monterey counties face the highest risk of flooding, high winds and high surf with waves of 20 to 25 feet during the storm, according to the weather service, as both areas are forecasted to receive between 4 and 6 inches of rain along the coast and at higher elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1613636978066747392\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not out of the woods yet,” Nancy Ward, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said during a Friday media briefing. “People will become complacent, but the ground is saturated. It is extremely, extremely dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The threat to communities remains and waters will continue to rise even after these storms have passed,” Ward added. She said that the state is still gathering information from local governments about damage suffered so far in the recent storms, but estimated that the price tag for recovery could top $1 billion.\u003cbr>\n.\u003cbr>\nDeanne Criswell, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said during Friday’s briefing that the Biden administration is still reviewing a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare the storms a major disaster, a step that would clear the way for increased federal aid to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">guidance\u003c/a> from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center suggests the Russian River at Guerneville will crest late Sunday morning 1.5 feet above flood level. Nearby streams, including Mark West Creek east of Guerneville, are also at flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood warnings were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SPRC1&scale=0\">in effect Friday for the Salinas River\u003c/a>, near the city of Salinas, in Monterey County, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. Drone footage from late Thursday shows a levee breaking and the river beginning to overflow its banks. Dhuyvetter said the river remains in a “minor flood stage” and is expected to crest later on Friday, before midnight, then come back down. She said she could not comment on which specific levees might have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood concerns also continue along Bear Creek, a tributary of the Merced River that flooded earlier this week and inundated the town of Planada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 20,000 acres of farmland in the Salinas Valley, the so-called “salad bowl of the world,” were at risk of flooding, according to NWS reports. As of Friday, some 6,000 people were under evacuation orders throughout California, said Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1613961623026139137\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Monterey County’s Department of Emergency Management and the county Sheriff’s Office, flooding is expected on state Highway 68, River Road, Reservation Road, Blanco Road, several secondary roads and possibly state Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders are already in effect for low-lying areas along the Salinas River from north of Highway 68 to the coast. Evacuation order information for Monterey County \u003ca href=\"https://montereyco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=905a9458324b4868804d96b5593eb978\">can be found here\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power outages continue to roil the region due to downed trees and power lines caused by high winds, which have reached hurricane strength in some parts of the state. On Friday, 20,000 households were without power, said Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late December, California has been drenched by a relentless string of “atmospheric river” storms, with the normally drought-plagued state averaging more than 9 inches of rainfall a day over the last 18 days — a remarkable amount that has seen some locations meet their average annual rainfall already, said David Lawrence, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms have also spurred an onslaught of flooding, fallen trees, power outages and debris flows, and resulted in at least 19 storm-related deaths. Half of those have involved motorists, with some of the deaths preventable if drivers had heeded road closure signs, said Sean Duryee, acting commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more rain and snow predicted through the weekend and into next week, the state’s Office of Emergency Services said it was preparing resources, including swift-water rescue teams and firefighting personnel, across eight counties in Central and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Dan Brekke and Emma Silvers, The Associated Press and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 12 p.m. Sunday:\u003c/strong> More rain and snow fell during the weekend in \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">storm-battered California\u003c/a>, making travel dangerous and prompting new evacuation orders over flooding concerns along a swollen river near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of thunderstorms with gusty winds started Saturday in the north and spread south, with yet another atmospheric river storm following close behind Sunday, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Up to 2 inches of rain was predicted for the saturated Sacramento Valley, where residents of semi-rural Wilton, home to about 5,000 people, were ordered to evacuate as the Cosumnes River continued to rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 3 inches of snow and gusty winds were expected in the Sierra Nevada. Interstate 80, a key highway from the San Francisco Bay Area to Lake Tahoe ski resorts, reopened after being closed most of Saturday because of slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The University of California Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Sunday morning that it received 21.5 inches of snow in 24 hours. Its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry avalanche warning was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area, through Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Highway Patrol rescued three people whose car slid off a rain-slicked road and ended up teetering at the edge of a cliff in the Santa Cruz Mountains on Friday. The occupants of the car “were scared for their lives and were in disbelief” when they were pulled safely from the car as \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/CHPSantaCruz/\">the vehicle’s front end hung precariously over the cliff’s edge\u003c/a>, the highway patrol said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot stress this enough. Please ONLY drive if it’s necessary,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just to the south in Santa Cruz County, the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was under an evacuation warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County. To the east, flood warnings were in effect for Merced County in the agricultural Central Valley, where Gov. Gavin Newsom visited Saturday to take stock of problems and warn of still more possible danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not done,” Newsom said. He urged people to be vigilant about safety for a few more days, when the last of a parade of nine atmospheric rivers was expected to move through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, winter storm warnings and advisories were in place for mountain areas, where many roads remained impassable because of mud and rock slides. Two northbound lanes of Interstate 5 near Castaic in northern Los Angeles County were closed indefinitely after a hillside collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The series of storms has dumped rain and snow on California since late December, cutting power to thousands, swamping roads, unleashing debris flows, and triggering \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_07\">landslides\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in the state and ordered federal aid to supplement local recovery efforts in affected areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 19 storm-related deaths have occurred, and a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-natural-disasters-paso-robles-0ed27eb4cf8696fa57d9bf4e170538bc\">5-year-old boy remained missing\u003c/a> after being swept out of his mother’s car by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dry days are in this week’s forecast for California starting on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 6:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Sacramento County’s Office of Emergency Services has issued an evacuation order for the Wilton Area due to an anticipated rise in the Cosumnes River levels. The evacuation orders are an upgrade from the warning earlier and will be in effect from 4:32 p.m. Saturday to 4:32 a.m. Sunday. Areas impacted are within the area of Highway 16 and Grantline West to Highway 99, South to Valensin, and North East to Dillard and Highway 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11938170\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png\" alt=\"A flood chart showing potential flooding.\" width=\"800\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-800x622.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-1020x793.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM-160x124.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-4.49.18-PM.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An evacuation shelter is located at the Chabolla Center, 600 Chabolla Avenue, Galt, CA 95632. Call 211 for additional information. Report flooded roads by calling 311.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 3 p.m. Saturday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3635-county-outage-information-update-1-10-8-00-pm\">PG&E had 5,258 customers without power\u003c/a> in the nine Bay Area counties, with another 5,326 customers without power in Santa Cruz County. For more information, see PG&E’s \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">power outage map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 3:30 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and wind advisory for the Bay Area that runs from 3 a.m. Saturday through 9 a.m. Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locations prone to tidal flooding in coastal areas will likely see coastal flooding caused by a combination of high tidal cycles, onshore winds, heavy runoff and continued rainfall, the weather service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County today, for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/Portals/0/County/CAO/press%20releases/2023/PR%201.14.23%20South%20County%20evac.pdf\">low-lying areas of Corralitos or Salsipuedes Creeks (PDF)\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514415440877803&set=pcb.514415770877770\">Rio Del Mar Esplanade\u003c/a>, and the low-lying residences along \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=514376710881676&set=pcb.514378467548167\">Soquel Wharf Road, Soquel Village and 3060 Porter Street\u003c/a>. County officials also said evacuations were underway in \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614366980852842496\">Holohan/East Lake/College, PAJ-E015, E024, E026, E027, E028\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Lorenzo River rose rapidly today, \u003ca href=\"https://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=mtr&gage=btec1&refresh=true\">reaching major flooding stage by midday before dropping back to moderate flooding stage\u003c/a> by 3 p.m. Emergency evacuations were underway in Felton Grove in Santa Cruz County as water levels rise, county officials said Saturday morning. Shelter sites at Cabrillo College and the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds remain open, county officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Great visit from our federal, state and local officials to survey storm damage throughout Santa Cruz County. Thank you \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/RepJimmyPanetta?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RepJimmyPanetta\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SenJohnLaird?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SenJohnLaird\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmDawnAddis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmDawnAddis\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AsmGailPellerin?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AsmGailPellerin\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Bruce_McPherson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Bruce_McPherson\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/zachfriend55?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@zachfriend55\u003c/a> as well as \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CAStateParksSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CAStateParksSC\u003c/a> for hosting this stop at SeacliffSB. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/ISPLMEtrA8\">pic.twitter.com/ISPLMEtrA8\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1614102709027901440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, evacuation orders have been issued for low-lying areas of Carmel River, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office said Saturday in an alert sent out at 1 p.m. The order includes the Carmel River north of Klondike Canyon Road/Carmel Valley Road and south of Rancho San Carlos Road. The order upgraded evacuation warnings to evacuation orders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation warnings for areas near Las Lomas were also effective immediately until further notice due to the storm, county officials said just after noon Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Highway 1 is closed in Point Reyes between Mesa and Cypress roads, Marin County officials said Saturday morning. PG&E is responding due to power lines that went down, officials said on social media. The closure is expected to last for most of the day. About 851 PG&E customers are affected by the outage, according to officials, who added that residents and the traveling public should avoid the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JUST IN\u003cbr>Have you heard about the atmospheric rivers hitting CA but aren't sure what they are? Learn all about atmospheric rivers & how \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NOAA\u003c/a> researches them in this new web article that explores the causes & impacts of these intense weather events: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Et7NFlvgvz\">https://t.co/Et7NFlvgvz\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/CP1jImsRkJ\">pic.twitter.com/CP1jImsRkJ\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NOAA Research (@NOAAResearch) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAAResearch/status/1613584352432263169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated, 2 p.m. Saturday:\u003c/strong> Storm-battered California got more wind, rain and snow today, raising flooding concerns, causing power outages and making travel dangerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bands of rain with gusty winds started in the north and spread south, with more storms expected to follow into early next week, the National Weather Service said, adding “lighter rainfall could continue Sunday with another ramp-up late Sunday into early Monday ahead of a second system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 68,000 utility customers were without electricity by late morning, according to \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/\">poweroutage.us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood warnings were issued for the region north of San Francisco Bay, including Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin counties.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2023/01/13/fairfax-landslide-damages-homes-as-marin-storm-trials-continue/\">landslide in Fairfax, Marin County\u003c/a>, damaged six apartments and displaced 19 residents as the county continued to grapple with the effects of a drenching month, reported the Marin Independent Journal on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The slide happened at a complex on Olema Road, sending mud and debris at the residences and in some spots breaking through walls, doors and windows, said Marin County Fire Department Chief Jason Weber in an interview with Marin Independent Journal reporter Alex N. Gecan. No injuries were reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Due to the fact that our soils are completely saturated, we’re going to see quite a bit of land movement around the county,” Weber said. “Those that live on or around hillsides need to be cognizant of this, and make sure that their drainage is working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To the south, warnings were posted for parts of counties including San Mateo and Santa Cruz, where the tiny community of Felton Grove along the San Lorenzo River was ordered evacuated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county of Santa Cruz on Friday \u003ca href=\"https://www.co.santa-cruz.ca.us/portals/0/county/CAO/press%20releases/2023/AssistanceRequest.01.13.2023.pdf\">formally requested state and federal assistance (PDF)\u003c/a> through the California Disaster Assistance Act on behalf of the region “to assist with losses and emergency repairs as a result of damages cause by the atmospheric winter storms which began on December 30, 2022.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The swollen Salinas River swamped farmland in Monterey County, and to the east, flood warnings were in effect for the San Joaquin Valley community of Merced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slick roads, snow and whiteout conditions plagued highways through the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab tweeted Saturday morning that it received 21.3 inches of snow in 24 hours and that its snowpack of about 10 feet was expected to grow several more feet by Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A backcountry \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraavalanchecenter.org/\">avalanche warning\u003c/a> was issued for the central Sierra, including the greater Lake Tahoe area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 5:30 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> California will see another round of stormy weather through the weekend and into next week, in an unwelcome continuation of the atmospheric river pattern that has been soaking the state for the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief respite of dry weather on Thursday, rain — heavy at times — returned to the Bay Area Friday morning, with the possibility of more thunderstorms Friday afternoon and into the evening, particularly in the North Bay, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say a new, similar cold front is likely to bring more intense rain Saturday morning, raising a new round of flood concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A wind advisory has also been issued for the Bay Area for Saturday, from 4 a.m. to noon, with possible gusts of up to 50 mph possible in higher elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, falling debris, downed power lines and downed trees are once again expected to threaten human life throughout the storm’s duration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a brief lull Sunday morning, yet another storm system, this time a warm front, is expected to reach the region by Sunday afternoon, with lighter but more consistent rain expected through Monday, said Eleanor Dhuyvetter, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service based in Monterey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know especially with the [49ers] playoff game tomorrow, people might be out and about, so do make sure to be aware of flash-flood warnings and especially be cautious with driving,” she said. “We’ve seen videos of a lot of potholes and sinkholes, which do creep up in areas that have had a lot of water … and that’s a lot of areas right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new wave of precipitation prompted the NWS to issue a \u003ca href=\"https://www.weather.gov/mtr/\">new flood watch\u003c/a> Friday for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, remaining in effect through Monday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The North Bay and Santa Cruz and Monterey counties face the highest risk of flooding, high winds and high surf with waves of 20 to 25 feet during the storm, according to the weather service, as both areas are forecasted to receive between 4 and 6 inches of rain along the coast and at higher elevations.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>“We are not out of the woods yet,” Nancy Ward, director of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, said during a Friday media briefing. “People will become complacent, but the ground is saturated. It is extremely, extremely dangerous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The threat to communities remains and waters will continue to rise even after these storms have passed,” Ward added. She said that the state is still gathering information from local governments about damage suffered so far in the recent storms, but estimated that the price tag for recovery could top $1 billion.\u003cbr>\n.\u003cbr>\nDeanne Criswell, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said during Friday’s briefing that the Biden administration is still reviewing a request from Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare the storms a major disaster, a step that would clear the way for increased federal aid to the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Sonoma County, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">guidance\u003c/a> from the California-Nevada River Forecast Center suggests the Russian River at Guerneville will crest late Sunday morning 1.5 feet above flood level. Nearby streams, including Mark West Creek east of Guerneville, are also at flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood warnings were also \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=SPRC1&scale=0\">in effect Friday for the Salinas River\u003c/a>, near the city of Salinas, in Monterey County, about 90 miles south of San Francisco. Drone footage from late Thursday shows a levee breaking and the river beginning to overflow its banks. Dhuyvetter said the river remains in a “minor flood stage” and is expected to crest later on Friday, before midnight, then come back down. She said she could not comment on which specific levees might have failed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flood concerns also continue along Bear Creek, a tributary of the Merced River that flooded earlier this week and inundated the town of Planada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 20,000 acres of farmland in the Salinas Valley, the so-called “salad bowl of the world,” were at risk of flooding, according to NWS reports. As of Friday, some 6,000 people were under evacuation orders throughout California, said Ward.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>According to Monterey County’s Department of Emergency Management and the county Sheriff’s Office, flooding is expected on state Highway 68, River Road, Reservation Road, Blanco Road, several secondary roads and possibly state Highway 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders are already in effect for low-lying areas along the Salinas River from north of Highway 68 to the coast. Evacuation order information for Monterey County \u003ca href=\"https://montereyco.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=905a9458324b4868804d96b5593eb978\">can be found here\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Power outages continue to roil the region due to downed trees and power lines caused by high winds, which have reached hurricane strength in some parts of the state. On Friday, 20,000 households were without power, said Ward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since late December, California has been drenched by a relentless string of “atmospheric river” storms, with the normally drought-plagued state averaging more than 9 inches of rainfall a day over the last 18 days — a remarkable amount that has seen some locations meet their average annual rainfall already, said David Lawrence, meteorologist with the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms have also spurred an onslaught of flooding, fallen trees, power outages and debris flows, and resulted in at least 19 storm-related deaths. Half of those have involved motorists, with some of the deaths preventable if drivers had heeded road closure signs, said Sean Duryee, acting commissioner of the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With more rain and snow predicted through the weekend and into next week, the state’s Office of Emergency Services said it was preparing resources, including swift-water rescue teams and firefighting personnel, across eight counties in Central and Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Dan Brekke and Emma Silvers, The Associated Press and Bay City News.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>Update, 6:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The body of a 43-year-old Ukiah woman was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonoma.sheriff/posts/pfbid0EUopLZweo6aLz38eLT2PHomYTgq7NnUUfyTRp9WwGHKJ5rjtCLbcHXpwnYuwxynKl\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recovered from a submerged vehicle in Forestville today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dispatch reported receiving a 911 call from a driver that her car was stuck in floodwaters in the 6000 block of Trenton-Healdsburg Road, Forestville. The caller reported there was water in the car before the line was disconnected. Dispatch immediately tried to call back several times with no response.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputies from the Sheriff’s Office, fire personnel from Sonoma County Fire District and the California Highway Patrol\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> arrived Tuesday but couldn’t locate the vehicle, calling off the search at sunset when it became too dangerous to continue. The search resumed Wednesday when they found the vehicle submerged in 8\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">–\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 feet of flood water approximately 100 yards off the road.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman was identified as Daphne Fontino by the Sonoma County Coroner’s Office, according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonoma.sheriff/posts/pfbid0EUopLZweo6aLz38eLT2PHomYTgq7NnUUfyTRp9WwGHKJ5rjtCLbcHXpwnYuwxynKl\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news release\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. This brings the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-10/tracking-the-deaths-from-californias-winter-storms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">total number of confirmed deaths\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a result of storm events since Dec. 30 to 19, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is reporting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This morning we found a in a submerged car in the 6000 block of Trenton-Healdsburg Road, Forestville, with one occupant who had died. The occupant is Daphne Fontino, 43, Ukiah. Our deepest condolences to her family and friends. Details on our Facebook page. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/BO7qmJdvnG\">pic.twitter.com/BO7qmJdvnG\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Sonoma Sheriff (@sonomasheriff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sonomasheriff/status/1613241647357390848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hollister last night, a swift water rescue team made up of personnel from the Oakland Fire Department and members of seven other local agencies \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/swift-water-rescue-team-saves-two-adults-from-submerged-vehicle-in-hollister-ca-on-tuesday\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rescued two men after their truck was overwhelmed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by fast-moving floodwaters in the vicinity of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">595 Hospital Road, according to the City of Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vehicle became stuck and was subsequently submerged in high water as the two passengers found themselves trapped on top of the vehicle. The rescue team used multiple ladders and other technical rescue tools to reach them and help them to safety. The men declined medical treatment but did not appear to be suffering from any injuries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The technical skill and communication involved in the rescue was phenomenal, and I hope this incident is a reminder for everyone about the dangers of attempting to drive through powerful and unpredictable storm water,” said Oakland Fire Chief Reginald Freeman. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Pacific Gas and Electric said power outages continued to affect more than 15,956 customers in the Bay Area as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, 13,059 of whom are in the South Bay, with \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1,304 PG&E customers without power in the North Bay, 1,457 on the Peninsula, 131 in the East Bay, and five without power in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:45 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PBF refinery in Martinez has released more than 11 million gallons of refinery-processed wastewater and storm water into the Carquinez Strait during the successive storms that have slammed the region over the last two weeks, according to the latest estimates from Bay Area water regulators.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s close to double the estimate from last Friday — the same day local residents complained of an odor coming from the facility, which has had a number of significant spills in recent years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, said the discharge volume is now up to 11.2 million gallons for the Martinez refinery, but emphasized that “everything is still estimated.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White also confirmed that Chevron’s Richmond refinery is releasing wastewater into the bay as well, but it’s still unclear how much.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It sounds like it’s ongoing, so we won’t have a spill volume until later,” she said. “Everyone’s still in the response mode, with three more atmospheric rivers forecasted for the next week.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spills are among \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a number of local instances\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in which the recent torrential rains have overwhelmed infrastructure like storm drains, sewer lines and treatment plants, forcing significant amounts of wastewater into local waterways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 1:40 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>Another day, another storm. Wednesday delivered more heavy rain to much of the Bay Area, a day after the region was hit with an extremely rare cocktail of hail, thunder and lightning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday’s storm system, part of the recent unrelenting series of atmospheric river events blasting California, has now moved well inland and is currently bringing mountain snows across the Intermountain West and into much of the central Rockies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, \u003ca href=\"https://origin.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd\">“an enormous cyclone rotating well off the West Coast” is responsible for this latest round\u003c/a> of heavy precipitation and gusty winds in Northern California, according to the National Weather Service. The North Bay is forecast to get the worst of today’s storm, with the potential for 2–3 inches of rain through the day, along with up to another 2 inches on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2–3 inches of rain are expected to fall in the East Bay Wednesday, along with 1–2 inches in Santa Cruz County and up to 1.5 inches in the South Bay, in San Francisco and down the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the North Bay, Thursday should bring a brief respite (relatively speaking) to the rest of the Bay Area, with just 0.1–0.5 inches expected, before \u003ci>another\u003c/i> storm front moves through the region Friday through Sunday. That storm is expected to drop 1–2 inches in San Francisco and on the Peninsula, 1.5–3 inches in Santa Cruz County, and 1–2 inches in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in the North Bay, up to 4 inches are expected over the weekend, spurring new concerns of the Russian River flooding. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association/NWS California Nevada River Forecast Center had \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">predicted the Russian River would experience a double-crested flood\u003c/a>, but that prediction has been revised and the Russian River \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">is not expected to reach flood levels\u003c/a> again in the coming days. As of Wednesday, the Sonoma Sheriff’s Office lifted the evacuation warning for all residents living near the Russian River floodway and its tributaries just south of Healdsburg to Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/cs/blank/print/htdocs/storm-update.html\">Full school closures in four school districts of Sonoma County\u003c/a> remain in place Wednesday “due to storm related impacts,” according to the Sonoma County Office of Education. The affected school districts are Fort Ross Elementary, Horicon, Kashia and Montgomery Elementary, with no virtual or in-person classes. The school districts have been closed since last week, with Horicon since Jan. 4 and the others since Jan. 5. The announcement included the caveat that officials at school districts make decisions independent of the county office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOESEast?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOESEast\u003c/a> monitors the U.S. today, a storm system associated with recent atmospheric river activity has moved well inland, bringing rain and mountain snow across the Intermountain West and into much of the central Rockies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latest: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/wJGBXDcNu2\">https://t.co/wJGBXDcNu2\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/BBXfXHUw66\">pic.twitter.com/BBXfXHUw66\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1613238902093156353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> A rare display of hail, thunder and lightning hit parts of the Bay Area on Tuesday, the latest wrinkle in a series of dramatic winter storms that have slammed the region with heavy rain and high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pea-sized hail fell in numerous cities in the area, including in Berkeley, but no damage was reported as a result.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/KathyLee510/status/1612861403068772353?s=20&t=-p1ji8JblKAJGa8jz3ClGg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood watch was in effect for much of the Bay Area through Tuesday afternoon as swollen rivers, creeks and streams threatened to overflow their banks, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several areas of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties remained under evacuation orders or warnings as of Tuesday afternoon. Monterey County residents are encouraged to check whether they are in an area under evacuation order by \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3Za0Xc0\">typing in their address here\u003c/a>. Santa Cruz County residents can do the same \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/search\">via the Zonehaven platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, communities along the Russian River breathed a collective sigh of relief when evacuation warnings were lifted late Tuesday morning after officials determined that the river had crested at 31.7 feet earlier in the morning, just shy of the 32-foot flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday afternoon surveyed flood-damaged small businesses in Capitola Village, a community near Santa Cruz that has been particularly hard-hit by relentless storm surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re soaked. This place is soaked,” he said, warning that additional storms in the coming days, even if less severe, will pack a mighty punch. “And now just more modest precipitation could have equal or greater impact in terms of the conditions on the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said an emergency declaration by President Biden now includes 31 California counties and means that “direct assistance will be forthcoming when conditions are right and we’ve assessed the damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not walking away,” he said, pledging to help small businesses recover. “Obviously, they’re going to have to assess their own insurance liabilities and it all will be determinative in terms of where we land. But we’ll do our best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/rachaelmyrow/status/1612943504619237376\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said he wanted to be careful to not “overpromise” and leave people “wanting and angry.” But, he added, “obviously the state, its intention, as is the federal government, is to help in the short run and the long run to be there for these businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:45 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>BART is reporting major delays at the Richmond station in the Berryessa, Richmond and Millbrae directions. There is a major power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:30 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>As thunderstorms rolled across the Bay Area, lightning struck some of San Francisco’s landmarks, including Sutro Tower and the Transamerica Pyramid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/hairessy/status/1612914815848308737?s=20&t=jJZMneLyAGl-C_PIeNG-Tg\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/BettyKPIX/status/1612943337493004288\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>Around 40 people in some 29 RVs sought refuge at the Forestville Youth Park in Sonoma County’s Forestville, after being forced to evacuate nearby RV parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darby, a Maribel resident who declined to give his last name, has been stationed at the park since Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He, along with around 28 other RVs, totaling some 40 people, moved their RVs to the park after flooding at the Mirabel RV Park and Guerneville’s River Bend RV Park sent people searching for higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been actually pretty crazy,” Darby said. “We’re not home. We don’t have electricity. We don’t have sewer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although evacuation orders lifted Tuesday, a power outage at the Mirabel RV Park means residents aren’t expected to return until Friday, said Tim Miller, executive director at West County Community Services, which has been helping provide some prepared meals, portable toilets and handwashing stations for the storm refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A line of RVs and cars along a rainy road, apparently during a sunny break in the storm, under tall, leafless trees and alongside a green athletic field.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 29 RVs sought refuge at the Forestville Youth Park in Forestville after storms pummeled the Bay Area and prompted evacuation orders for two nearby RV parks along the Russian River, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Miller said county workers also emptied refuse tanks for the RV dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is terrific,” he said, “because people have been here for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 20 years of working for the Red Cross and West County Community Services, Miller said he’s seen more intense flooding at the Russian River, but nothing quite so long-lasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just gone on for a really long time,” he said. “People living in RVs are pretty self-sufficient, but it’s expensive to live away from home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to plumbing or power, the bills for potable water and food that can be eaten without refrigeration add up, Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who are low-income, whether you’re homeless or in an RV, when you lose power or are displaced, the cost of living goes up,” he said. “And, that’s really taxing emotionally and financially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service is reporting that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1612872985437962240/photo/1\">thunderstorms will be possible Tuesday across Northern California\u003c/a>. And, a flash flood warning was issued for parts of San Francisco, Daly City and South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most likely time frame for the thunderstorms was estimated to be from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Potential impacts could include lightning, small hail, heavy rain, strong wing gusts and possible funnel clouds or even brief tornados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:10 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration posted a time-lapse video to Twitter Tuesday showing the massive atmospheric river that’s been battering the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-lapse spans from Jan. 6 through Jan. 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1612883133652926465\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office lifted an evacuation warning late Tuesday morning that had been in place since Jan. 4 for the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order affected thousands of people in low-lying areas between Healdsburg and Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Tuesday morning, around 3 a.m., the river crested fractions of an inch below flood stage and is now expected go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some roads are still closed, however, owing to flooded creeks and downed trees. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is planning to adopt an emergency declaration today, opening up a pathway for state and federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"rain pours off an overpass on a stormy gray day in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain pours off of the Central Freeway overpass near Folsom and 13th Streets in San Francisco on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:45 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/California-storm-rain-update-17706756.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported Tuesday that millions of gallons of stormwater mixed with raw sewage has made its way into creeks, the San Francisco Bay, and city streets as recent rains overwhelm sewers and treatment plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board told the Chronicle there were 90 reports of unauthorized wastewater or raw sewage discharges around the Bay Area between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3, totaling 14 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 8 million gallons of unauthorized discharges were reported during the storm on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"paywall\" class=\"content-wrapper\">\n\u003cp>“Don’t jump in puddles,” White told the Chronicle. “Especially in San Francisco — you want to be careful that there [could be] sewage in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:35 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>As of 11 a.m., at least 75,808 Pacific Gas and Electric households in the Bay Area were without power — down from the more than 93,700 customers without power earlier in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the South Bay were bearing the brunt of the outages, with 46,636 customers without power, followed by the Peninsula with 15,520 homes in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, 6,198 homes were without power; in San Francisco, the number was 3,909; and in the East Bay, 3,545 households were experiencing outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>Officials in Santa Clara County say the recent storms have significantly affected county-maintained roads, causing closures due to mudslides, flooding and downed trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews are working to reopen the roads, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>New Avenue from Leavesley to Buenavista due to wires on road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mt. Charlie due to tree down with power lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Idylwild due to tree down with power lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gist Road due to tree down with power lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bear Creek Road due to two slip outs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Castro Valley Road from Santa Teresa to Highway 101 due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frazer Lake at Highway 152 to the San Benito County line due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Uvas Road from Watsonville Road to the Uvas Reservoir boat ramp\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bolsa Road from Highway 25 to Bloomfield due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bloomfield Road from 152 to Frazer Lake due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Black Road from Thompson to Skyline due to mudslide\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Teresa Blvd. from Highland to California due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Calaveras Road from Felter Road to Alameda County line\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mines Road from Del Puerto Road to Alameda County line due to two washouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sierra Road from Skyview Drive to Felter Road due to slide/storm debris\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mesa Road from Santa Teresa to Highway101 due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mt. Madonna Road (dirt section) from 1.75 miles east of Redwood Retreat Road to Summit Road in Gilroy\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/PecpCZ6W5NuoDJXJtzk8_B?domain=sccgov.us5.list-manage.com\">More emergency road closure information is available at www.sccgov.org/roadclosures.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:15 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The death tally from the recent storms has now risen to 15 as of 8 a.m., said Brian Ferguson, spokesperson for the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began tracking weather-related deaths since the Dec. 30 storm, with one additional death reported overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no estimate yet for the total cost of storm-related damage, he said, but “because of the scope of the damage, we do estimate that it will be substantial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"firefighters work to remove a tree from the road after a storm\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco firefighters remove a large tree branch that fell onto a parked car due to high winds from the early Tuesday morning storm, Jan. 10, 2022. The San Francisco Bay Area and much of California continues to get drenched by powerful atmospheric river events that have brought high winds and flooding rains, toppling trees, flooding roads and cutting power to tens of thousands. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management said in a tweet Tuesday that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFDEM_MEC/status/1612864285629382656\">overnight wind and rain in the city caused 40 trees to fall or have damage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More rain, wind, high surf and possibly thunder and lighting on deck for today,” she said. “Be careful out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews were out Tuesday clearing the debris. Residents can text their ZIP code to AlertSF at 888-777 for road closures and areas to avoid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1612881982865956866\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:45 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The San Francisco Department of Parks and Recreation reported Tuesday that several parks were closed due to the storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The TPC Harding, Fleming, Golden Gate Park, Lincoln Park and Sharp Park golf courses were closed, along with the Japanese Tea Garden, the San Francisco Botanical Garden, SOMA West Skate Park, Grattan Playground, Peixotto Playground, Stern Grove, Pine Lake, the Great Highway and all grass fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The CHP is reporting a number of road closures as a result of the wet weather battering the Bay Area Tuesday. Public transit also is affected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Alameda County, State Route 84 between Niles Canyon and Pleasanton Sunol roads in Fremont is blocked due to flooding and a landslide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Great Highway south of Sloat Boulevard is closed due to storm-related erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further south, in San Mateo County, State Route 35 north of La Honda Road is blocked in both directions, due to downed wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in Santa Clara County, the connector ramp to southbound State Route 87 on southbound Interstate 280 in San José is closed, as is the right lane in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, State Route 9 east of Graham Hill Road is blocked in both directions due to downed wires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/Caltrain/status/1612864447483367424\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, BART is running trains at slower speeds due to the wet weather. The agency is asking passengers to add 20 minutes to their planned travel times to factor in the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak’s Capitol Corridors trains are also delayed, and as of 9:30 a.m., the Valley Transportation Authority reported the Green Line light rail continues to be replaced by buses between Diridon and Fruitdale stations, due to a power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on road closures and transit delays, visit \u003ca href=\"http://511.org/alerts/critical\">511.org/alerts/critical\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>At least 93,742 Bay Area households were without power Tuesday morning, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the South Bay were bearing the brunt of the outages, with 52,911 homes without power, followed by the Peninsula, with 19,053.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 8,221 people without power in the East Bay; 7,414 in the dark in the North Bay; and 6,143 households without power in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>A flood warning for the Russian River near Guerneville has been downgraded to an advisory, according to the National Weather Service’s Brooke Bingaman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still in ‘monitor’ stage,” Bingaman said. “That’s near flood stage, but not quite. So, folks near Guerneville and along the Russian River should still be vigilant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With another bout of rain expected Wednesday, Bingaman said the forecast could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a person is seen from the back looking at a tree floating down a river in a storm\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident looks at a boat that is caught in a tree in the Russian River on Jan. 9, 2023 in Rio Nido, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> A series of punishing storms continued to dump rain Tuesday across the Bay Area, with winds of up to 70 mph and a flood watch in effect until the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 189,000 PG&E customers are without power this morning, as the storm brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3629-pg-e-crews-full-force-restoring-power-amid-historic-storm-conditions-northern-central-california\">more than 100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes as of 5:30 a.m.\u003c/a>, company officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thunderstorm began offshore around the southern portion of Marin County through the Big Sur coastline, said Brooke Bingaman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the storm moved inland, San Francisco and Santa Cruz bore the brunt of it, she said, with the thunder rousing many from their sleep. But, it’s not the last of the storms for this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area can expect intermittent showers later today, along with the chance of thunderstorms later in the morning and into the afternoon. More rain is expected Wednesday morning and in the early afternoon, followed by another storm over the weekend, Bingaman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ground already saturated and more rain flowing into rivers and creeks, she said the effects of the storm will continue to be felt for days or even weeks after the rain stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weather has definitely been unrelenting recently, and I know that it feels like we’re in a boxing ring and it’s just round after round,” Bingaman said. “We appreciate the fact that people are still paying attention to the advice [the National Weather Service is] giving and they’re listening to local officials, and we just ask that people continue doing that until we definitely get back into a dry spell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 14 people have died as a result of the storm — more than the past two years of wildfires combined — officials from the governor’s office said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message to Californians is simple: be hyper-vigilant,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “There are still several days of severe winter weather ahead, and we need all Californians to be alert and heed the advice of emergency officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Newsom planned to unveil his budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins in July. The proposal includes\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4cKACOYZQzi208O8Hk0qMM?domain=mclist.us7.list-manage.com\"> $202 million\u003c/a> in new investments for long-term flood prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office issued an immediate evacuation order for residents in the low-lying areas of the Salinas River early Tuesday morning, after flooding south of San Lucas in the county’s southeastern corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents are being told to evacuate the following areas located south of San Lucas on the east side of U.S. Highway 101: Zone G-028A, south of Lockwood San Lucas Road, and north and west of Cattleman Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Lynda Hopkins described the past week as a marathon marked with an occasional sprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County supervisor, whose district encompasses the coast and the Russian River towns of Guerneville and Forestville, said she’s been busy keeping up with water levels that sometimes rise fast and recede just as quickly in between rounds of storm.[aside postID=news_11937103 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS61892_008_KQED_WoodStreetFlooding_01052023-qut-1020x680.jpg']“This has been a grind: a series of atmospheric rivers really devastating the electrical grid as well as our roads and infrastructure in western Sonoma County,” Hopkins told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been closely watching the river as it comes close to flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins said county authorities prioritized evacuating residents who live in trailers and low-lying areas. The trailer parks provide affordable housing for people who make up the area’s workforce, but some of those residents don’t have trucks to move their trailers to higher ground, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also opened community support centers to help residents who lost power recharge their electronic devices and to give out care packages that include a battery pack. She also heard from many small-business owners who were hampered by power outages and workers who had to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m expecting the economic ramifications of the flood to be substantial,” she said. “Even if the river doesn’t rise as high as we originally feared it would, we are looking at many millions, possibly tens of millions of dollars of infrastructure damage from this storm series, and we have had major catastrophic road failures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1/9/23 9:52AM: Moscow Rd near Monte Rio \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/2yPYwse9Bo\">pic.twitter.com/2yPYwse9Bo\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Sonoma Sheriff (@sonomasheriff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sonomasheriff/status/1612523317168336898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Evacuation orders have been lifted in many parts of Santa Cruz County as water levels near rivers and creeks begin to recede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities on Monday morning ordered residents who live near the rain-swollen San Lorenzo River and four other creeks to leave. Major flooding in the mountain community of Felton led firefighters to go by jetski and inflatable rescue boat to reach stranded residents. In one street intersection, the water reached as high as the bottom of a stop sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FELTON GROVE FLOODING | Water rescue checking on Felton Grove residents (Credit: Rachel Oliveira)\u003cbr>The latest: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/z8iHvTVtFN\">https://t.co/z8iHvTVtFN\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/H38wYnHIvx\">pic.twitter.com/H38wYnHIvx\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— KSBW Action News 8 (@ksbw) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ksbw/status/1612507596069511168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Watsonville, residents in areas at risk of flooding were evacuated Monday morning as water seeped into homes. Orders remained in place for areas near the Pajaro River as authorities continued to monitor the levees that\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hold the water back. A breach in the levees in 1995 caused widespread damage to homes and farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a knock at the door and as we’re leaving … the water was already underneath [the] car so we have to make it out fast,” Dan Morales, 74, told KQED at an evacuation center set up at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the only reason we’re here because [were it not] for the sheriff, we would have still been at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz announced classes will be held online on Tuesday because of rapidly changing impacts of the storm. \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/storm-impacts.html\">Student dorms were without power for most of Monday and power lines were in the roadway in parts of the campus\u003c/a>, according to the university’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Evacuation orders have been lifted in many parts of the County. Some zones remain in an evacuation warning. Check your zone at \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/s5GvnC3vMN\">https://t.co/s5GvnC3vMN\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/6DhEL1vIYc\">pic.twitter.com/6DhEL1vIYc\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1612637845017223170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The latest atmospheric river is causing flooding and widespread evacuations in many parts of California, and a second wave tonight is expected to bring isolated but intense thunderstorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unstable atmosphere could pack in strong winds, hail and a small chance of tornadoes, said Sean Miller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody is going to see it, but … for the folks that do see it, these thunderstorms can produce heavier rain rates,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the region already soaked from a series of atmospheric rivers that began on New Year’s Eve, Miller said, these thunderstorms could cause more flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937527\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937527 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A mangled, twisted asphalt mountain road with yellow tape strung across it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of road damage after storms and heavy rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley in Scotts Valley, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The weather service issued a flood watch for a large portion of Northern and Central California, with 6 to 12 inches of rain expected through Wednesday in the already saturated Sacramento-area foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller said the storms are anticipated to hit the Bay Area from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and later Tuesday morning. He urged morning commuters to drive with caution or avoid getting in their cars if they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have more issues with localized flooding in places that didn’t already receive it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Gilroy, traffic on both sides of U.S. 101 came to a standstill Monday afternoon when flooding overtook the roadway and there was no way for vehicles to turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highway 101 has turned into a moving river this afternoon. Do not drive into these flood waters, putting yourself and everyone around you at risk. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TurnAroundDontDrown?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TurnAroundDontDrown\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAwx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAflood?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAflood\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Vtn5EkcskG\">pic.twitter.com/Vtn5EkcskG\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1612579355322101761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this scenario, California Highway Patrol Officer Custodio Lopez advised motorists to pull over if it’s safe to do so and call 911 to report the flood. Make sure your now-stationary car is visible to others so you don’t get hit, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 5-year-old boy was swept away Monday morning after the truck he was riding in became stranded in floodwaters near Paso Robles in Central California. Bystanders were able to pull the boy’s mother out of the truck, but he was carried out of the vehicle and swept downstream, officials with the Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department said. There was no evacuation order in the area at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters searched for the boy for more than five hours, but called off the search Monday afternoon because the current and rising water levels of the Salinas River were too dangerous for divers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Central Coast, continuous rain, overflowing creeks and flooded roadways led the Santa Barbara County sheriff to evacuate nearly 10,000 people. The coastal community of Montecito was evacuated on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday to support storm response and relief efforts in more than a dozen counties, including Sacramento, Los Angeles and Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Head on a swivel! Damaged infrastructure, flooded roads, downed trees and power lines, and more! There are many hazards right now, with more wind on the way tonight. Please stay home and stay safe! \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CaWx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CaWx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/California?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#California\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/d0Z6JCTobn\">pic.twitter.com/d0Z6JCTobn\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE CZU (@CALFIRECZU) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1612591005815177216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services reported Monday that at least 14 people have died as a result of violent weather during the past 11 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 91,000 homes and businesses were without power as of 5 p.m. Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california\">according to PowerOutage.us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it brought in crews from out of state and Canada to cope with widespread damage to its power grid. The company is also providing power via portable electric generators to roughly 6,000 customers in Humboldt and Mendocino counties and bracing for the next round of storms, which could result in more outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These storms have caused widespread power outages. Trees weakened by the drought in saturated soil have come down. Flooding and mudslides have affected many areas,” Pacific Gas and Electric COO Adam Wright said during a media briefing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has created a double whammy, if you will: a loss of power from downed wires and poles, and restricted access to make assessments and repairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, expects a break in the rain after Jan. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The Bay Area is experiencing a brief respite in stormy conditions late Monday, after 8 inches of rain fell over 12 hours. But the pause will be brief with more heavy rain and winds expected to bring several more inches early Tuesday “\u003ca href=\"https://origin.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd\">as a parade of strong wet Pacific systems pushes more heavy precipitation across California\u003c/a>,” according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some northbound lanes of U.S. 101, a key coastal route, were closed, along with several other highways and local roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, evacuation orders for up to 32,000 residents remained in place near rain-swollen rivers and creeks, said Melodye Serino, deputy county administrative officer. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and drone footage showed numerous homes sitting in muddy brown water, the top halves of autos peeking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937497\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-800x483.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded houses with people walking through it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-800x483.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-1020x616.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along a flooded road near the San Lorenzo River in Felton, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large, muddy slide blocked both lanes of southbound Highway 17, a key but windy route into Santa Cruz from the San Francisco Bay Area. Vehicles were turned back at the summit as crews arrived to clean up. In Northern California, California Highway Patrol shared video of large boulders skidding down hillsides to block state roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 customers remained without power in Sacramento, down from more than 350,000 a day earlier after gusts of 60 mph knocked majestic trees into power lines, according to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Some Bay Area cities are opening or expanding shelters as storms create unsafe conditions for the unhoused community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/\">Omni Commons\u003c/a> has opened a 24-hour volunteer-run emergency shelter at 4799 Shattuck Ave. until noon Wednesday for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TheWaterAway/status/1611776064824709122\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Omni Commons is currently prioritizing families, women and people who identify as LGBTQ+.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Volunteer Geraldo Amador says the space can accommodate 30 to 40 people on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 8 a.m. every day. While intakes stop at 11 p.m., individuals can stay at the shelter overnight. Hot meals, sanitary products, COVID-19 tests, masks, bathrooms and beds with clean sheets are being provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people we’ve talked to just need a place to not be in the rain,” said Amador. “They love that we were able to provide it to them free of charge and not have a lot of expectations in terms of if they can stay in the space for specific amounts of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, Contra Costa Health Services (CCH) and community organizations are \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0108-Contra-Costa-Agencies-Expanding-Capacity-at-Homeless-Shelters-This-Week-as-Another-Big-Storm-Approaches.php\">expanding capacity at shelters in the county\u003c/a> for unsheltered individuals and families, as well as increasing outreach to deliver supplies to those who remain outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone needing assistance with shelter placement should contact the Contra Costa Crisis Center by calling 211.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCH has also temporarily expanded hours and staffing for the CORE unhoused-outreach program to help facilitate shelter placements and deliver supplies such as tarps, blankets, sleeping bag, gloves and beanies to unsheltered people who remain outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outreach teams are in need of — in order of importance — sleeping bags, gloves and beanies, tarps and blankets. Donations can be dropped off at 2400 Bisso Lane, Suite D in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937103/warming-shelters-flood-bomb-cyclone-storm-bay-area\">For more on where to find shelter throughout the nine-county Bay Area, go to our resource page.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The entire Bay Area is under a flood watch due to a series of major storms, with areas of greatest concern along the coast and in the North Bay, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 6:45 p.m. Saturday, the NWS issued a flood watch through Tuesday for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, urging residents to prepare for widespread flooding, mudslides and the rapid rise of creeks and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County along the Russian River from Jenner to Guerneville, and parts of Monterey County along the Carmel River, were elevated to flood warnings — the highest flood alert in the Weather Service’s three-tiered system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of Santa Cruz County is under a flash flood warning until further notice. \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/zones/US-CA-XCZ-CTL-E010?z=12.857381202840443&latlon=37.0075651410922%2C-121.940576729805\">An evacuation map for Santa Cruz County is here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-800x455.jpg\" alt=\"A bird's eye view of houses with flood waters flowing between them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-800x455.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-1020x580.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of flooded homes in Felton, Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A flood advisory was issued for most of the East Bay, South Bay, San Francisco and the Peninsula at about 10 a.m. Monday, and is expected to last until 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our rivers and streams today are really at some of their limits,” said NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of flooding is likely to be highest tonight for the region’s most affected areas as heavy rains continue and runoff from higher elevations filter down to already swollen waterways and saturated soils, Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current storm has already had a widespread impact across the Bay Area, with flooded roadways, downed trees and power lines creating hazardous driving conditions and leaving more than 14,000 PG&E customers without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 11:30 a.m., there were 7,823 without power in the North Bay, 3,763 on the Peninsula, 1,791 in the East Bay, 605 in the South Bay and 94 in San Francisco, according to Pacific Gas and Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has led to dozens of school closures in Santa Cruz County, the North Bay and San Joaquin County. Evacuation warnings and orders have been issued for parts of Monterey, Santa Cruz and Sonoma counties, as well as parts of Vacaville in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wet weather is expected to continue for at least the next week or so, with the largest amount of rainfall in the North Bay, Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wet time is going to continue and our long-term outlook still shows wet conditions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, expects a break in the rain after Jan. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 9 a.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, shuttering schools, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County for residents living near rapidly rising rivers and creeks. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and video on social media showed the rushing river overflowing its banks, and inundating a nearby neighborhood with muddy water. Officials warned mudslides and flooding were blocking roads and urged residents to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/abc7newsbayarea/status/1612502376753303552\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, evacuation orders were issued for low-lying areas of the Carmel River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/TessKenny12/status/1612512010696069121\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in Northern California, several school districts were closed due to the storms, including many campuses in Sonoma County. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/pub/htdocs/storm-update.html\">Click here for a full list of Sonoma County districts and schools closed as of 11 a.m. Monday.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area, Sunday night’s storm saw gusts of up to 70 mph and caused outages that left around 16,000 Bay Area residents without power, according to PG&E. In Sacramento, more than 36,000 customers remained without power Monday morning, down from more than 350,000 a day earlier after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smud.org/en/Customer-Support/Outage-Status\">gusts of 60 mph knocked trees into power lines\u003c/a>, according to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11937204,news_11937216,news_11936674\" label=\"Related Posts\"]The National Weather Service warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” — storms that are long plumes of moisture stretching out into the Pacific and are capable of dropping staggering amounts of rain and snow. The rain and snow expected over the next couple of days come after California has already been walloped by storms that last week knocked out power to thousands, flooded streets and battered the coastline with high surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday for California to support storm response and relief efforts in more than a dozen counties including Sacramento, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said 12 people died as a result of violent weather during the past 10 days, and he warned that this week’s storms could be even more dangerous. He urged people to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of the newest, heavier storms prompted the weather service to issue a flood watch for a large swath of Northern and Central California, with 6 to 12 inches of rain expected through Wednesday in the already saturated Sacramento-area foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Aptos, the coastal community in Santa Cruz County, crews put down sandbags ahead of high tide. The area flooded last week, leaving sand piles and debris in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"A flooded city neighborhood with a man riding by on a road bike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rides his bicycle on a flooded roadway in Aptos, Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles area, stormy conditions were expected to return Monday, with the potential for up to 8 inches in foothill areas. High surf was expected through Tuesday, with large waves on west-facing beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Dec. 26, San Francisco received more than 10 inches of rain, while Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski area in the Eastern Sierra, got nearly 10 feet of snow, the National Weather Service reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms won’t be enough to officially end California’s ongoing drought — but they have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Climatologist Michael Anderson said at a news briefing late Saturday that officials were closely monitoring Monday’s incoming storm and another behind it and were keeping an eye on three other systems farther out in the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Californians can expect to see a break in the rain after Jan. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press, Bay City News and KQED’s Ted Goldberg, Danielle Venton, Emily Hung and Rachael Myrow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will no longer be updated. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003cstrong>Update, 6:15 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> The body of a 43-year-old Ukiah woman was \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonoma.sheriff/posts/pfbid0EUopLZweo6aLz38eLT2PHomYTgq7NnUUfyTRp9WwGHKJ5rjtCLbcHXpwnYuwxynKl\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recovered from a submerged vehicle in Forestville today\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dispatch reported receiving a 911 call from a driver that her car was stuck in floodwaters in the 6000 block of Trenton-Healdsburg Road, Forestville. The caller reported there was water in the car before the line was disconnected. Dispatch immediately tried to call back several times with no response.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deputies from the Sheriff’s Office, fire personnel from Sonoma County Fire District and the California Highway Patrol\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> arrived Tuesday but couldn’t locate the vehicle, calling off the search at sunset when it became too dangerous to continue. The search resumed Wednesday when they found the vehicle submerged in 8\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">–\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">10 feet of flood water approximately 100 yards off the road.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The woman was identified as Daphne Fontino by the Sonoma County Coroner’s Office, according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/sonoma.sheriff/posts/pfbid0EUopLZweo6aLz38eLT2PHomYTgq7NnUUfyTRp9WwGHKJ5rjtCLbcHXpwnYuwxynKl\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news release\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. This brings the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-01-10/tracking-the-deaths-from-californias-winter-storms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">total number of confirmed deaths\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a result of storm events since Dec. 30 to 19, \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Los Angeles Times\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is reporting.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This morning we found a in a submerged car in the 6000 block of Trenton-Healdsburg Road, Forestville, with one occupant who had died. The occupant is Daphne Fontino, 43, Ukiah. Our deepest condolences to her family and friends. Details on our Facebook page. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/BO7qmJdvnG\">pic.twitter.com/BO7qmJdvnG\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Sonoma Sheriff (@sonomasheriff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sonomasheriff/status/1613241647357390848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hollister last night, a swift water rescue team made up of personnel from the Oakland Fire Department and members of seven other local agencies \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/swift-water-rescue-team-saves-two-adults-from-submerged-vehicle-in-hollister-ca-on-tuesday\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rescued two men after their truck was overwhelmed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by fast-moving floodwaters in the vicinity of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">595 Hospital Road, according to the City of Oakland.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The vehicle became stuck and was subsequently submerged in high water as the two passengers found themselves trapped on top of the vehicle. The rescue team used multiple ladders and other technical rescue tools to reach them and help them to safety. The men declined medical treatment but did not appear to be suffering from any injuries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“The technical skill and communication involved in the rescue was phenomenal, and I hope this incident is a reminder for everyone about the dangers of attempting to drive through powerful and unpredictable storm water,” said Oakland Fire Chief Reginald Freeman. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, Pacific Gas and Electric said power outages continued to affect more than 15,956 customers in the Bay Area as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, 13,059 of whom are in the South Bay, with \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1,304 PG&E customers without power in the North Bay, 1,457 on the Peninsula, 131 in the East Bay, and five without power in San Francisco.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4:45 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The PBF refinery in Martinez has released more than 11 million gallons of refinery-processed wastewater and storm water into the Carquinez Strait during the successive storms that have slammed the region over the last two weeks, according to the latest estimates from Bay Area water regulators.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That’s close to double the estimate from last Friday — the same day local residents complained of an odor coming from the facility, which has had a number of significant spills in recent years.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, said the discharge volume is now up to 11.2 million gallons for the Martinez refinery, but emphasized that “everything is still estimated.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White also confirmed that Chevron’s Richmond refinery is releasing wastewater into the bay as well, but it’s still unclear how much.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“It sounds like it’s ongoing, so we won’t have a spill volume until later,” she said. “Everyone’s still in the response mode, with three more atmospheric rivers forecasted for the next week.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The spills are among \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a number of local instances\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in which the recent torrential rains have overwhelmed infrastructure like storm drains, sewer lines and treatment plants, forcing significant amounts of wastewater into local waterways.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 1:40 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>Another day, another storm. Wednesday delivered more heavy rain to much of the Bay Area, a day after the region was hit with an extremely rare cocktail of hail, thunder and lightning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yesterday’s storm system, part of the recent unrelenting series of atmospheric river events blasting California, has now moved well inland and is currently bringing mountain snows across the Intermountain West and into much of the central Rockies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But now, \u003ca href=\"https://origin.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd\">“an enormous cyclone rotating well off the West Coast” is responsible for this latest round\u003c/a> of heavy precipitation and gusty winds in Northern California, according to the National Weather Service. The North Bay is forecast to get the worst of today’s storm, with the potential for 2–3 inches of rain through the day, along with up to another 2 inches on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 2–3 inches of rain are expected to fall in the East Bay Wednesday, along with 1–2 inches in Santa Cruz County and up to 1.5 inches in the South Bay, in San Francisco and down the Peninsula.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the North Bay, Thursday should bring a brief respite (relatively speaking) to the rest of the Bay Area, with just 0.1–0.5 inches expected, before \u003ci>another\u003c/i> storm front moves through the region Friday through Sunday. That storm is expected to drop 1–2 inches in San Francisco and on the Peninsula, 1.5–3 inches in Santa Cruz County, and 1–2 inches in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, in the North Bay, up to 4 inches are expected over the weekend, spurring new concerns of the Russian River flooding. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association/NWS California Nevada River Forecast Center had \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">predicted the Russian River would experience a double-crested flood\u003c/a>, but that prediction has been revised and the Russian River \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">is not expected to reach flood levels\u003c/a> again in the coming days. As of Wednesday, the Sonoma Sheriff’s Office lifted the evacuation warning for all residents living near the Russian River floodway and its tributaries just south of Healdsburg to Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/cs/blank/print/htdocs/storm-update.html\">Full school closures in four school districts of Sonoma County\u003c/a> remain in place Wednesday “due to storm related impacts,” according to the Sonoma County Office of Education. The affected school districts are Fort Ross Elementary, Horicon, Kashia and Montgomery Elementary, with no virtual or in-person classes. The school districts have been closed since last week, with Horicon since Jan. 4 and the others since Jan. 5. The announcement included the caveat that officials at school districts make decisions independent of the county office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/GOESEast?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GOESEast\u003c/a> monitors the U.S. today, a storm system associated with recent atmospheric river activity has moved well inland, bringing rain and mountain snow across the Intermountain West and into much of the central Rockies. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latest: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/wJGBXDcNu2\">https://t.co/wJGBXDcNu2\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/BBXfXHUw66\">pic.twitter.com/BBXfXHUw66\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NOAASatellites/status/1613238902093156353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 11, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> A rare display of hail, thunder and lightning hit parts of the Bay Area on Tuesday, the latest wrinkle in a series of dramatic winter storms that have slammed the region with heavy rain and high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pea-sized hail fell in numerous cities in the area, including in Berkeley, but no damage was reported as a result.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>A flood watch was in effect for much of the Bay Area through Tuesday afternoon as swollen rivers, creeks and streams threatened to overflow their banks, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several areas of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties remained under evacuation orders or warnings as of Tuesday afternoon. Monterey County residents are encouraged to check whether they are in an area under evacuation order by \u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3Za0Xc0\">typing in their address here\u003c/a>. Santa Cruz County residents can do the same \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/search\">via the Zonehaven platform\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, communities along the Russian River breathed a collective sigh of relief when evacuation warnings were lifted late Tuesday morning after officials determined that the river had crested at 31.7 feet earlier in the morning, just shy of the 32-foot flood stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday afternoon surveyed flood-damaged small businesses in Capitola Village, a community near Santa Cruz that has been particularly hard-hit by relentless storm surges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re soaked. This place is soaked,” he said, warning that additional storms in the coming days, even if less severe, will pack a mighty punch. “And now just more modest precipitation could have equal or greater impact in terms of the conditions on the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said an emergency declaration by President Biden now includes 31 California counties and means that “direct assistance will be forthcoming when conditions are right and we’ve assessed the damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not walking away,” he said, pledging to help small businesses recover. “Obviously, they’re going to have to assess their own insurance liabilities and it all will be determinative in terms of where we land. But we’ll do our best.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:15 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>Around 40 people in some 29 RVs sought refuge at the Forestville Youth Park in Sonoma County’s Forestville, after being forced to evacuate nearby RV parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Darby, a Maribel resident who declined to give his last name, has been stationed at the park since Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He, along with around 28 other RVs, totaling some 40 people, moved their RVs to the park after flooding at the Mirabel RV Park and Guerneville’s River Bend RV Park sent people searching for higher ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been actually pretty crazy,” Darby said. “We’re not home. We don’t have electricity. We don’t have sewer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although evacuation orders lifted Tuesday, a power outage at the Mirabel RV Park means residents aren’t expected to return until Friday, said Tim Miller, executive director at West County Community Services, which has been helping provide some prepared meals, portable toilets and handwashing stations for the storm refugees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937695\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937695 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A line of RVs and cars along a rainy road, apparently during a sunny break in the storm, under tall, leafless trees and alongside a green athletic field.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/69499143389__D36A8A0C-D653-4D4C-9860-56B164042D27-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">About 29 RVs sought refuge at the Forestville Youth Park in Forestville after storms pummeled the Bay Area and prompted evacuation orders for two nearby RV parks along the Russian River, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Danielle Venton/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Miller said county workers also emptied refuse tanks for the RV dwellers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Which is terrific,” he said, “because people have been here for a while.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 20 years of working for the Red Cross and West County Community Services, Miller said he’s seen more intense flooding at the Russian River, but nothing quite so long-lasting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just gone on for a really long time,” he said. “People living in RVs are pretty self-sufficient, but it’s expensive to live away from home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without access to plumbing or power, the bills for potable water and food that can be eaten without refrigeration add up, Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For people who are low-income, whether you’re homeless or in an RV, when you lose power or are displaced, the cost of living goes up,” he said. “And, that’s really taxing emotionally and financially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The National Weather Service is reporting that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSSacramento/status/1612872985437962240/photo/1\">thunderstorms will be possible Tuesday across Northern California\u003c/a>. And, a flash flood warning was issued for parts of San Francisco, Daly City and South San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most likely time frame for the thunderstorms was estimated to be from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Potential impacts could include lightning, small hail, heavy rain, strong wing gusts and possible funnel clouds or even brief tornados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:10 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration posted a time-lapse video to Twitter Tuesday showing the massive atmospheric river that’s been battering the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The time-lapse spans from Jan. 6 through Jan. 10.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office lifted an evacuation warning late Tuesday morning that had been in place since Jan. 4 for the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order affected thousands of people in low-lying areas between Healdsburg and Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Tuesday morning, around 3 a.m., the river crested fractions of an inch below flood stage and is now expected go down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some roads are still closed, however, owing to flooded creeks and downed trees. The Sonoma County Board of Supervisors is planning to adopt an emergency declaration today, opening up a pathway for state and federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"rain pours off an overpass on a stormy gray day in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/9087DD7B-BAED-4FD6-86F7-DAB5EA222B31.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rain pours off of the Central Freeway overpass near Folsom and 13th Streets in San Francisco on Jan. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:45 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/weather/article/California-storm-rain-update-17706756.php\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> reported Tuesday that millions of gallons of stormwater mixed with raw sewage has made its way into creeks, the San Francisco Bay, and city streets as recent rains overwhelm sewers and treatment plants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eileen White, executive officer of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board told the Chronicle there were 90 reports of unauthorized wastewater or raw sewage discharges around the Bay Area between Dec. 30 and Jan. 3, totaling 14 million gallons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 8 million gallons of unauthorized discharges were reported during the storm on Jan. 4 and Jan. 5.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv id=\"paywall\" class=\"content-wrapper\">\n\u003cp>“Don’t jump in puddles,” White told the Chronicle. “Especially in San Francisco — you want to be careful that there [could be] sewage in that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:35 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>As of 11 a.m., at least 75,808 Pacific Gas and Electric households in the Bay Area were without power — down from the more than 93,700 customers without power earlier in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the South Bay were bearing the brunt of the outages, with 46,636 customers without power, followed by the Peninsula with 15,520 homes in the dark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, 6,198 homes were without power; in San Francisco, the number was 3,909; and in the East Bay, 3,545 households were experiencing outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>Officials in Santa Clara County say the recent storms have significantly affected county-maintained roads, causing closures due to mudslides, flooding and downed trees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews are working to reopen the roads, including:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>New Avenue from Leavesley to Buenavista due to wires on road\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mt. Charlie due to tree down with power lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Idylwild due to tree down with power lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gist Road due to tree down with power lines\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bear Creek Road due to two slip outs\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Castro Valley Road from Santa Teresa to Highway 101 due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Frazer Lake at Highway 152 to the San Benito County line due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Uvas Road from Watsonville Road to the Uvas Reservoir boat ramp\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bolsa Road from Highway 25 to Bloomfield due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Bloomfield Road from 152 to Frazer Lake due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Black Road from Thompson to Skyline due to mudslide\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Santa Teresa Blvd. from Highland to California due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Calaveras Road from Felter Road to Alameda County line\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mines Road from Del Puerto Road to Alameda County line due to two washouts\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Sierra Road from Skyview Drive to Felter Road due to slide/storm debris\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mesa Road from Santa Teresa to Highway101 due to flooding\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Mt. Madonna Road (dirt section) from 1.75 miles east of Redwood Retreat Road to Summit Road in Gilroy\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/PecpCZ6W5NuoDJXJtzk8_B?domain=sccgov.us5.list-manage.com\">More emergency road closure information is available at www.sccgov.org/roadclosures.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:15 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The death tally from the recent storms has now risen to 15 as of 8 a.m., said Brian Ferguson, spokesperson for the California Office of Emergency Services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state began tracking weather-related deaths since the Dec. 30 storm, with one additional death reported overnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is no estimate yet for the total cost of storm-related damage, he said, but “because of the scope of the damage, we do estimate that it will be substantial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937648\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937648\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"firefighters work to remove a tree from the road after a storm\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455546837-1920x1286.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco firefighters remove a large tree branch that fell onto a parked car due to high winds from the early Tuesday morning storm, Jan. 10, 2022. The San Francisco Bay Area and much of California continues to get drenched by powerful atmospheric river events that have brought high winds and flooding rains, toppling trees, flooding roads and cutting power to tens of thousands. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management said in a tweet Tuesday that \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFDEM_MEC/status/1612864285629382656\">overnight wind and rain in the city caused 40 trees to fall or have damage\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More rain, wind, high surf and possibly thunder and lighting on deck for today,” she said. “Be careful out there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crews were out Tuesday clearing the debris. Residents can text their ZIP code to AlertSF at 888-777 for road closures and areas to avoid.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In addition, BART is running trains at slower speeds due to the wet weather. The agency is asking passengers to add 20 minutes to their planned travel times to factor in the delays.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amtrak’s Capitol Corridors trains are also delayed, and as of 9:30 a.m., the Valley Transportation Authority reported the Green Line light rail continues to be replaced by buses between Diridon and Fruitdale stations, due to a power outage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For more information on road closures and transit delays, visit \u003ca href=\"http://511.org/alerts/critical\">511.org/alerts/critical\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>At least 93,742 Bay Area households were without power Tuesday morning, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents in the South Bay were bearing the brunt of the outages, with 52,911 homes without power, followed by the Peninsula, with 19,053.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were 8,221 people without power in the East Bay; 7,414 in the dark in the North Bay; and 6,143 households without power in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 8:30 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>A flood warning for the Russian River near Guerneville has been downgraded to an advisory, according to the National Weather Service’s Brooke Bingaman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s still in ‘monitor’ stage,” Bingaman said. “That’s near flood stage, but not quite. So, folks near Guerneville and along the Russian River should still be vigilant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With another bout of rain expected Wednesday, Bingaman said the forecast could change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937592\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937592\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"a person is seen from the back looking at a tree floating down a river in a storm\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1455327013-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A resident looks at a boat that is caught in a tree in the Russian River on Jan. 9, 2023 in Rio Nido, California. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 a.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> A series of punishing storms continued to dump rain Tuesday across the Bay Area, with winds of up to 70 mph and a flood watch in effect until the afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 189,000 PG&E customers are without power this morning, as the storm brought \u003ca href=\"https://www.pgecurrents.com/articles/3629-pg-e-crews-full-force-restoring-power-amid-historic-storm-conditions-northern-central-california\">more than 100 cloud-to-ground lightning strikes as of 5:30 a.m.\u003c/a>, company officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thunderstorm began offshore around the southern portion of Marin County through the Big Sur coastline, said Brooke Bingaman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the storm moved inland, San Francisco and Santa Cruz bore the brunt of it, she said, with the thunder rousing many from their sleep. But, it’s not the last of the storms for this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area can expect intermittent showers later today, along with the chance of thunderstorms later in the morning and into the afternoon. More rain is expected Wednesday morning and in the early afternoon, followed by another storm over the weekend, Bingaman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ground already saturated and more rain flowing into rivers and creeks, she said the effects of the storm will continue to be felt for days or even weeks after the rain stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The weather has definitely been unrelenting recently, and I know that it feels like we’re in a boxing ring and it’s just round after round,” Bingaman said. “We appreciate the fact that people are still paying attention to the advice [the National Weather Service is] giving and they’re listening to local officials, and we just ask that people continue doing that until we definitely get back into a dry spell.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 14 people have died as a result of the storm — more than the past two years of wildfires combined — officials from the governor’s office said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our message to Californians is simple: be hyper-vigilant,” Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “There are still several days of severe winter weather ahead, and we need all Californians to be alert and heed the advice of emergency officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, Newsom planned to unveil his budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins in July. The proposal includes\u003ca href=\"https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/4cKACOYZQzi208O8Hk0qMM?domain=mclist.us7.list-manage.com\"> $202 million\u003c/a> in new investments for long-term flood prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7 a.m. Tuesday: \u003c/strong>The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office issued an immediate evacuation order for residents in the low-lying areas of the Salinas River early Tuesday morning, after flooding south of San Lucas in the county’s southeastern corner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents are being told to evacuate the following areas located south of San Lucas on the east side of U.S. Highway 101: Zone G-028A, south of Lockwood San Lucas Road, and north and west of Cattleman Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Lynda Hopkins described the past week as a marathon marked with an occasional sprint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County supervisor, whose district encompasses the coast and the Russian River towns of Guerneville and Forestville, said she’s been busy keeping up with water levels that sometimes rise fast and recede just as quickly in between rounds of storm.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This has been a grind: a series of atmospheric rivers really devastating the electrical grid as well as our roads and infrastructure in western Sonoma County,” Hopkins told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents have been closely watching the river as it comes close to flood level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hopkins said county authorities prioritized evacuating residents who live in trailers and low-lying areas. The trailer parks provide affordable housing for people who make up the area’s workforce, but some of those residents don’t have trucks to move their trailers to higher ground, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county also opened community support centers to help residents who lost power recharge their electronic devices and to give out care packages that include a battery pack. She also heard from many small-business owners who were hampered by power outages and workers who had to evacuate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m expecting the economic ramifications of the flood to be substantial,” she said. “Even if the river doesn’t rise as high as we originally feared it would, we are looking at many millions, possibly tens of millions of dollars of infrastructure damage from this storm series, and we have had major catastrophic road failures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1/9/23 9:52AM: Moscow Rd near Monte Rio \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/2yPYwse9Bo\">pic.twitter.com/2yPYwse9Bo\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Sonoma Sheriff (@sonomasheriff) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sonomasheriff/status/1612523317168336898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 7:30 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> Evacuation orders have been lifted in many parts of Santa Cruz County as water levels near rivers and creeks begin to recede.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authorities on Monday morning ordered residents who live near the rain-swollen San Lorenzo River and four other creeks to leave. Major flooding in the mountain community of Felton led firefighters to go by jetski and inflatable rescue boat to reach stranded residents. In one street intersection, the water reached as high as the bottom of a stop sign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FELTON GROVE FLOODING | Water rescue checking on Felton Grove residents (Credit: Rachel Oliveira)\u003cbr>The latest: \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/z8iHvTVtFN\">https://t.co/z8iHvTVtFN\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/H38wYnHIvx\">pic.twitter.com/H38wYnHIvx\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— KSBW Action News 8 (@ksbw) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/ksbw/status/1612507596069511168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Watsonville, residents in areas at risk of flooding were evacuated Monday morning as water seeped into homes. Orders remained in place for areas near the Pajaro River as authorities continued to monitor the levees that\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hold the water back. A breach in the levees in 1995 caused widespread damage to homes and farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a knock at the door and as we’re leaving … the water was already underneath [the] car so we have to make it out fast,” Dan Morales, 74, told KQED at an evacuation center set up at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the only reason we’re here because [were it not] for the sheriff, we would have still been at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Santa Cruz announced classes will be held online on Tuesday because of rapidly changing impacts of the storm. \u003ca href=\"https://news.ucsc.edu/2023/01/storm-impacts.html\">Student dorms were without power for most of Monday and power lines were in the roadway in parts of the campus\u003c/a>, according to the university’s website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Evacuation orders have been lifted in many parts of the County. Some zones remain in an evacuation warning. Check your zone at \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/s5GvnC3vMN\">https://t.co/s5GvnC3vMN\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/6DhEL1vIYc\">pic.twitter.com/6DhEL1vIYc\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1612637845017223170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 6 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The latest atmospheric river is causing flooding and widespread evacuations in many parts of California, and a second wave tonight is expected to bring isolated but intense thunderstorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unstable atmosphere could pack in strong winds, hail and a small chance of tornadoes, said Sean Miller, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not everybody is going to see it, but … for the folks that do see it, these thunderstorms can produce heavier rain rates,” Miller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with the region already soaked from a series of atmospheric rivers that began on New Year’s Eve, Miller said, these thunderstorms could cause more flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937527\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11937527 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A mangled, twisted asphalt mountain road with yellow tape strung across it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246117469.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of road damage after storms and heavy rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley in Scotts Valley, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The weather service issued a flood watch for a large portion of Northern and Central California, with 6 to 12 inches of rain expected through Wednesday in the already saturated Sacramento-area foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Miller said the storms are anticipated to hit the Bay Area from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m., 5 a.m. to 7 a.m. and later Tuesday morning. He urged morning commuters to drive with caution or avoid getting in their cars if they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have more issues with localized flooding in places that didn’t already receive it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Gilroy, traffic on both sides of U.S. 101 came to a standstill Monday afternoon when flooding overtook the roadway and there was no way for vehicles to turn around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Highway 101 has turned into a moving river this afternoon. Do not drive into these flood waters, putting yourself and everyone around you at risk. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/TurnAroundDontDrown?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TurnAroundDontDrown\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAwx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAwx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CAflood?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CAflood\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/Vtn5EkcskG\">pic.twitter.com/Vtn5EkcskG\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1612579355322101761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this scenario, California Highway Patrol Officer Custodio Lopez advised motorists to pull over if it’s safe to do so and call 911 to report the flood. Make sure your now-stationary car is visible to others so you don’t get hit, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A 5-year-old boy was swept away Monday morning after the truck he was riding in became stranded in floodwaters near Paso Robles in Central California. Bystanders were able to pull the boy’s mother out of the truck, but he was carried out of the vehicle and swept downstream, officials with the Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo County Fire Department said. There was no evacuation order in the area at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters searched for the boy for more than five hours, but called off the search Monday afternoon because the current and rising water levels of the Salinas River were too dangerous for divers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the Central Coast, continuous rain, overflowing creeks and flooded roadways led the Santa Barbara County sheriff to evacuate nearly 10,000 people. The coastal community of Montecito was evacuated on the fifth anniversary of a mudslide that killed 23 people and destroyed more than 100 homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday to support storm response and relief efforts in more than a dozen counties, including Sacramento, Los Angeles and Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Head on a swivel! Damaged infrastructure, flooded roads, downed trees and power lines, and more! There are many hazards right now, with more wind on the way tonight. Please stay home and stay safe! \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/CaWx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CaWx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/California?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#California\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/d0Z6JCTobn\">pic.twitter.com/d0Z6JCTobn\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— CAL FIRE CZU (@CALFIRECZU) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CALFIRECZU/status/1612591005815177216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services reported Monday that at least 14 people have died as a result of violent weather during the past 11 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 91,000 homes and businesses were without power as of 5 p.m. Monday, \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california\">according to PowerOutage.us\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E said it brought in crews from out of state and Canada to cope with widespread damage to its power grid. The company is also providing power via portable electric generators to roughly 6,000 customers in Humboldt and Mendocino counties and bracing for the next round of storms, which could result in more outages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These storms have caused widespread power outages. Trees weakened by the drought in saturated soil have come down. Flooding and mudslides have affected many areas,” Pacific Gas and Electric COO Adam Wright said during a media briefing Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has created a double whammy, if you will: a loss of power from downed wires and poles, and restricted access to make assessments and repairs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, expects a break in the rain after Jan. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:45 p.m. Monday:\u003c/strong> The Bay Area is experiencing a brief respite in stormy conditions late Monday, after 8 inches of rain fell over 12 hours. But the pause will be brief with more heavy rain and winds expected to bring several more inches early Tuesday “\u003ca href=\"https://origin.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/discussions/hpcdiscussions.php?disc=pmdspd\">as a parade of strong wet Pacific systems pushes more heavy precipitation across California\u003c/a>,” according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some northbound lanes of U.S. 101, a key coastal route, were closed, along with several other highways and local roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, evacuation orders for up to 32,000 residents remained in place near rain-swollen rivers and creeks, said Melodye Serino, deputy county administrative officer. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and drone footage showed numerous homes sitting in muddy brown water, the top halves of autos peeking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937497\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937497\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-800x483.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded houses with people walking through it.\" width=\"800\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-800x483.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-1020x616.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084-160x97.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115084.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along a flooded road near the San Lorenzo River in Felton, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A large, muddy slide blocked both lanes of southbound Highway 17, a key but windy route into Santa Cruz from the San Francisco Bay Area. Vehicles were turned back at the summit as crews arrived to clean up. In Northern California, California Highway Patrol shared video of large boulders skidding down hillsides to block state roads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 35,000 customers remained without power in Sacramento, down from more than 350,000 a day earlier after gusts of 60 mph knocked majestic trees into power lines, according to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Some Bay Area cities are opening or expanding shelters as storms create unsafe conditions for the unhoused community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://omnicommons.org/\">Omni Commons\u003c/a> has opened a 24-hour volunteer-run emergency shelter at 4799 Shattuck Ave. until noon Wednesday for people experiencing homelessness.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Hot meals, sanitary products, COVID-19 tests, masks, bathrooms and beds with clean sheets are being provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of people we’ve talked to just need a place to not be in the rain,” said Amador. “They love that we were able to provide it to them free of charge and not have a lot of expectations in terms of if they can stay in the space for specific amounts of time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Contra Costa County, Contra Costa Health Services (CCH) and community organizations are \u003ca href=\"https://cchealth.org/press-releases/2023/0108-Contra-Costa-Agencies-Expanding-Capacity-at-Homeless-Shelters-This-Week-as-Another-Big-Storm-Approaches.php\">expanding capacity at shelters in the county\u003c/a> for unsheltered individuals and families, as well as increasing outreach to deliver supplies to those who remain outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone needing assistance with shelter placement should contact the Contra Costa Crisis Center by calling 211.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CCH has also temporarily expanded hours and staffing for the CORE unhoused-outreach program to help facilitate shelter placements and deliver supplies such as tarps, blankets, sleeping bag, gloves and beanies to unsheltered people who remain outdoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outreach teams are in need of — in order of importance — sleeping bags, gloves and beanies, tarps and blankets. Donations can be dropped off at 2400 Bisso Lane, Suite D in Concord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937103/warming-shelters-flood-bomb-cyclone-storm-bay-area\">For more on where to find shelter throughout the nine-county Bay Area, go to our resource page.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>The entire Bay Area is under a flood watch due to a series of major storms, with areas of greatest concern along the coast and in the North Bay, according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At about 6:45 p.m. Saturday, the NWS issued a flood watch through Tuesday for the entire Bay Area and Central Coast, urging residents to prepare for widespread flooding, mudslides and the rapid rise of creeks and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonoma County along the Russian River from Jenner to Guerneville, and parts of Monterey County along the Carmel River, were elevated to flood warnings — the highest flood alert in the Weather Service’s three-tiered system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of Santa Cruz County is under a flash flood warning until further notice. \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/zones/US-CA-XCZ-CTL-E010?z=12.857381202840443&latlon=37.0075651410922%2C-121.940576729805\">An evacuation map for Santa Cruz County is here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-800x455.jpg\" alt=\"A bird's eye view of houses with flood waters flowing between them.\" width=\"800\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-800x455.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-1020x580.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115453.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of flooded homes in Felton, Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A flood advisory was issued for most of the East Bay, South Bay, San Francisco and the Peninsula at about 10 a.m. Monday, and is expected to last until 4 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of our rivers and streams today are really at some of their limits,” said NWS meteorologist Brayden Murdock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The risk of flooding is likely to be highest tonight for the region’s most affected areas as heavy rains continue and runoff from higher elevations filter down to already swollen waterways and saturated soils, Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The current storm has already had a widespread impact across the Bay Area, with flooded roadways, downed trees and power lines creating hazardous driving conditions and leaving more than 14,000 PG&E customers without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of 11:30 a.m., there were 7,823 without power in the North Bay, 3,763 on the Peninsula, 1,791 in the East Bay, 605 in the South Bay and 94 in San Francisco, according to Pacific Gas and Electric.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm has led to dozens of school closures in Santa Cruz County, the North Bay and San Joaquin County. Evacuation warnings and orders have been issued for parts of Monterey, Santa Cruz and Sonoma counties, as well as parts of Vacaville in Solano County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The wet weather is expected to continue for at least the next week or so, with the largest amount of rainfall in the North Bay, Murdock said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The wet time is going to continue and our long-term outlook still shows wet conditions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, expects a break in the rain after Jan. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 9 a.m. Monday: \u003c/strong>Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, shuttering schools, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders were issued in Santa Cruz County for residents living near rapidly rising rivers and creeks. The San Lorenzo River was declared at flood stage, and video on social media showed the rushing river overflowing its banks, and inundating a nearby neighborhood with muddy water. Officials warned mudslides and flooding were blocking roads and urged residents to stay home.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The National Weather Service warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” — storms that are long plumes of moisture stretching out into the Pacific and are capable of dropping staggering amounts of rain and snow. The rain and snow expected over the next couple of days come after California has already been walloped by storms that last week knocked out power to thousands, flooded streets and battered the coastline with high surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>President Joe Biden issued an emergency declaration Monday for California to support storm response and relief efforts in more than a dozen counties including Sacramento, Santa Cruz and Los Angeles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom said 12 people died as a result of violent weather during the past 10 days, and he warned that this week’s storms could be even more dangerous. He urged people to stay home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of the newest, heavier storms prompted the weather service to issue a flood watch for a large swath of Northern and Central California, with 6 to 12 inches of rain expected through Wednesday in the already saturated Sacramento-area foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Aptos, the coastal community in Santa Cruz County, crews put down sandbags ahead of high tide. The area flooded last week, leaving sand piles and debris in the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11937478\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11937478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-800x509.jpg\" alt=\"A flooded city neighborhood with a man riding by on a road bike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-800x509.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-1020x648.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180-160x102.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/GettyImages-1246115180.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man rides his bicycle on a flooded roadway in Aptos, Santa Cruz County, on Jan. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Los Angeles area, stormy conditions were expected to return Monday, with the potential for up to 8 inches in foothill areas. High surf was expected through Tuesday, with large waves on west-facing beaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Dec. 26, San Francisco received more than 10 inches of rain, while Mammoth Mountain, a popular ski area in the Eastern Sierra, got nearly 10 feet of snow, the National Weather Service reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms won’t be enough to officially end California’s ongoing drought — but they have helped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Climatologist Michael Anderson said at a news briefing late Saturday that officials were closely monitoring Monday’s incoming storm and another behind it and were keeping an eye on three other systems farther out in the Pacific.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Californians can expect to see a break in the rain after Jan. 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is my best guess right now, which is good because it will give the rivers in Northern California, and now in Central California, a chance to come down,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from The Associated Press, Bay City News and KQED’s Ted Goldberg, Danielle Venton, Emily Hung and Rachael Myrow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ci>This post will no longer be updated.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The weather in Northern California was significantly calmer on Friday, offering a brief respite before two more atmospheric rivers slam the region this weekend and into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, evacuation and shelter-in-place orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.saccounty.gov/news/latest-news/Pages/Orders-Lift-as-Storm-Calms-Stay-Vigilant.aspx\">had been lifted in Sacramento County\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/warnings-and-updates/\">Sonoma County, the evacuation warning was still in effect\u003c/a> for all residents living near the Russian River floodway and its tributaries from Healdsburg to Jenner, where the river is likely to flood in the coming days. \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/\">Marin County issued a flood watch\u003c/a> from 4 a.m. Saturday to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Various \u003ca href=\"https://www.acpwa.org/about-us/roadclosure.page\">roads also remained closed throughout Alameda and\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2811\">Contra Costa counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coastal areas on Friday, wave heights were significantly lower than in previous days, although the surf remained dangerous along much of the coast. As of Friday afternoon, an \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/zones/US-CA-XCZ-CTL-E051?z=13.023867033084587&latlon=36.9666360309846%2C-121.89697355280151\">evacuation order was lifted \u003c/a>for the low-lying areas of the Rio Del Mar Esplanade in Santa Cruz County, but \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/zones/US-CA-XCZ-CTL-E028?z=14.196877408496562&latlon=36.97848333718905%2C-121.95149665432541\">an evacuation warning remained in effect\u003c/a> for low-lying residences in sections of nearby Capitola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, Pacific Gas and Electric had restored power to more than 200,000 customers, but said that tens of thousands of residents in its service area were still without power, including up to 17,000 customers in the Bay Area, according to reporting from Bay City News. The utility reportedly mobilized 3,000 workers and contractors to continue repair work before the next storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent succession of storms have helped with \u003ca href=\"https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?West\">California’s drought conditions\u003c/a>, moving the state out of the “exceptional drought” category, but the precipitation won’t be nearly enough to officially end the four-year drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/b> Pacific Gas and Electric on Thursday afternoon said about 440,000 customers across its vast service area — including a number of schools — lost power at some point on Wednesday or Thursday morning. Roughly 325,000 have had their power restored, and another 40,000 should be back online by late Thursday, the utility said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers who still don’t have power after today could be in for a long wait, said Janisse Quiñones, PG&E’s senior vice president of electric operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we don’t have access to many of the areas, or the conditions are really dangerous for our crews, trees are falling around them, we have flooding and soil movement when they are trying to restore our service,” Quiñones said in an afternoon press briefing. She noted that winds late Wednesday reached close to 100 mph in some higher-elevation service areas. “Right now our [helicopters] are grounded. The weather is preventing us from bringing any aerial equipment up in the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñones said there are 369 PG&E restoration crews currently out in the field, along with about 25 crews from other West Coast utilities providing mutual aid. But the succession of storms and the short windows of time between them have made restoration efforts challenging, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a series of storms coming in the system. We got hit on New Year’s [Eve] with a storm, we got hit yesterday with a storm, we’re expecting a storm Saturday, and another storm system Monday, which creates a very limited window of opening for restoration for our crews,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñones urged anyone who sees a downed power line to first call 911 and then contact PG&E — and to never touch or get near it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 2:30 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Authorities have released more information about a 2-year-old boy who was killed by a falling tree in the Sonoma County community of Occidental on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy was sitting in his living room around 5 p.m. when the tree fell and landed on top of the mobile home, pinning him underneath, sheriff’s Sgt. Juan Valencia told KQED.[aside postID=news_11936674 hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/BL1_5579-1020x680.jpg\"]The boy’s father and some neighbors had pulled the boy from under the tree by the time first responders arrived, Valencia said. They performed CPR and the child was pronounced dead at 5:48 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy was one of at least two people who died in Wednesday’s storm. Fairfield police said a 19-year-old woman was killed when her car hydroplaned on a wet road and struck a pole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, authorities shuttered numerous roadways due to downed trees, power lines and other hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rockslide closed a stretch of Highway 1 between Stinson Beach and Muir Beach, Marin County said on Twitter. Further down the coast, a section of the coastal highway in Carmel was closed due to massive waves reaching the roadway, and another section south of Big Sur was closed because of falling rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Picture of slide on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hwy1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hwy1\u003c/a> from this morning at Polar Star, one mile south of Ragged Point. Contractor engaged to help clear. Full closure remains in place. Assessments ongoing. Continue to ask public to please keep out of the closure area which will permit crews to work safely. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/9TmAebtqJn\">pic.twitter.com/9TmAebtqJn\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Caltrans District 5 (@CaltransD5) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransD5/status/1611101375353716737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A landslide also blocked a lane of northbound Highway 1 in Pacifica, just past Manor Drive, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 1 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Santa Cruz County authorities lifted evacuation orders Thursday morning for potential flood areas as the worst of the storm has passed, but huge waves and high tides from the atmospheric river remained a threat to residents in coastal areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can evacuate safely, please do so immediately. If you are unable to evacuate, please shelter in place, move away from ocean facing windows,” the county sheriff’s office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service warned of dangerous swimming and surfing conditions as 20- to 30-foot-high waves hit the central California coastline. The waves broke apart two piers in Santa Cruz County, and flooded the picture-postcard town of Capitola. Dramatic eyewitness videos show water thrashing against waterfront restaurants and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Capitola Beach and Pier are under siege with tide and surf still rising. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/89b1CAGfg6\">pic.twitter.com/89b1CAGfg6\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— sports business (@soulfocussports) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soulfocussports/status/1611025441808330756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, the California Highway Patrol urged people to avoid coming to Seacliff State Beach in Aptos because of coastal flooding. An old concrete ship broke away from the beach’s pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In low-lying areas of Marin County, a combination of the rain and tides flooded some roadways. Authorities closed Miller Avenue, a major thoroughfare, and urged drivers to slow down and avoid large bodies of standing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, forecasters dialed back flood predictions for the Russian River in Sonoma County. The National Weather Service previously projected the area could become inundated by Thursday afternoon, potentially causing minor flooding in Guerneville, Monte Rio and other parts of the popular vacation getaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is now forecast to \u003ca href=\"https://cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">reach flood stage on Sunday afternoon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>Forecasters said lighter rain and isolated thunderstorms are expected to pass through the Bay Area the rest of Thursday, giving residents a bit of a break to clean up and assess damages before another storm arrives Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood watch remains in effect until 4 p.m. because additional rainfall to an already soaked region could lead to rapid rises along creeks, streams and flood-prone areas, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not done with the water just yet,” said Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “With our next pattern coming through, it’s going to be almost daily where we see some wet conditions. Luckily not seeing the rainfall amounts like we saw with the main rainband last night, but still we’re not done with this wet pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, gusty winds and towering waves split the Capitola wharf in half and flooded the Santa Cruz County seaside town. The waves also breached the seawall in Pacifica and prompted the weather service to issue a high surf warning until 3 a.m. Friday, urging beachgoers to stay off jetties and coastal rocks and stay out of the surf zone. Beaches could be hit by up to 30-foot waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The storm has caused significant damage throughout the county and along the coast, including heavy damage to piers in Capitola and Seacliff. High tide and large surf is a dangerous combination - avoid the coast. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/XiyuJBQUFB\">pic.twitter.com/XiyuJBQUFB\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1611050779439419394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest in a series of atmospheric rivers slammed into the Bay Area late Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and power outages affecting nearly \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">145,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers\u003c/a>. The weather contributed to at least two deaths: a toddler who was killed after a tree fell onto a house in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, and a Fairfield woman whose car hydroplaned on a wet road and slammed into a pole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a family was rescued by firefighters Wednesday evening when a tree fell onto their car on Larkin Street. Near the zoo, another tree fell onto a person who had to be rushed to a trauma center in stable condition, the city’s Fire Department tweeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters responded to dozens of calls about downed trees and power lines. Winds gusting to 85 mph forced the cancellation of more than 70 flights at San Francisco International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby in South San Francisco, the winds knocked over the roof of a Valero gas station’s canopy, damaging at least one fueling station. The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssf.net/home/showpublisheddocument/28668/638085077593622620\">opened a temporary evacuation center\u003c/a> for the more than 3,000 residents who were without power Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8:30 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Heavy rain and damaging winds from the “bomb cyclone” knocked down trees, flooded roads and cut power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses as of Thursday morning, and contributed to the deaths of at least two people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/toddler-dies-after-tree-lands-on-occidental-home/?ref=moststory\">A toddler was killed Wednesday night\u003c/a> after a tree fell and landed on a house in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, volunteer firefighters there told local media. In Fairfield, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FairfieldPolice\">a 19-year-old woman was killed \u003c/a>after she lost control of her vehicle on a flooded road and slammed into a utility pole, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm dropped heavy rain in parts of the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=mtr&issuedby=MTR&product=RR6\">A preliminary rainfall report \u003c/a>from the National Weather Service estimates that as much as 4 to 5 inches of rain fell over a 24-hour period in the mountains south of Monterey, while most of the rest of the region received 1 to 2 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any additional rain to areas already soaked by multiple storms since Christmas is prompting fears of mudslides, flooding and downed power lines and trees. California issued a state of emergency to support response to the storm and recovery efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california\">170,000 homes and businesses were without power in California Thursday morning\u003c/a>, according to poweroutage.us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Radar Update 6:52 AM - Don't put away those umbrellas yet. Here's a radar loop over the last hour showing showers. Some showers may be heavy at times. Allow extra time for the commute. For the rest of today showers and even thunderstorms are still possible. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/cawx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cawx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/WUq7TQGMDX\">pic.twitter.com/WUq7TQGMDX\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1611012763979231232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original story, 8:45 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>Gusting \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610799458618609666\">winds of up to 85 mph\u003c/a> in parts of the Bay Area bore down on the region Wednesday afternoon, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610779204517498881\">heaviest rainfall of the “bomb cyclone” hit \u003c/a>in the early evening, with heavy rain and winds to continue into Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm prompted evacuation warnings, triggered landslides, closed roads and downed trees. But the morning rain totals were less than predicted, with about a half-inch falling in San Francisco, said Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been a quiet day … until about an hour ago,” Carroll said as winds and rainfall picked up in the late afternoon. “The storm we have all been waiting for is here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610779204517498881\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She pleaded with residents to avoid calling 911, except for life-threatening emergencies, especially as rain totals continued to rise throughout the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“911 is extremely busy right now,” she said. “For storm-related issues, that are not life-safety, please use 311. That is the fastest way for us to get the information and dispatch a response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Warming centers open\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Warming centers and emergency shelters were open across the Bay Area for unhoused residents and those displaced by the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, the Valley Transportation Authority is offering free rides to warming centers through Friday, Jan. 6. \u003ca href=\"https://emergencymanagement.sccgov.org/residents/cold-weather-safety\">A list of centers in Santa Clara County can be found here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Red Cross also posted locations it manages or supports throughout the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/RedCrossNorCal/status/1610831460264742912\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is collaborating with various nonprofits to provide outreach services and shelter on a first-come, first-served basis at four locations through next week. \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/\">A list of those SF locations can be found here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco residents experiencing homelessness and in need of support are encouraged to contact the Homeless Outreach Team dispatch line at (628) 652-8000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, a number of warming centers and shelters are now open. Hayward secured additional hotel rooms and is prepared to open an emergency shelter at the Matt Jimenez Community Center in South Hayward for residents without housing or for those forced from home during rainstorms this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members living unsheltered or displaced due to flooding and other storm effects — or aware of someone in need of assistance — may contact the City of Hayward Emergency Operations Center at (510) 583-2182.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is partnering with its year-round shelter at St. Vincent de Paul, located at 675 23rd Street in West Oakland, to double their bed capacity to serve up to 100 people through Friday morning. Shelter beds can be secured through referral, reservation and walk-up on a first-come, first-served basis. People seeking shelter can contact St. Vincent de Paul directly at (510) 638-7600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland also is opening an additional emergency shelter at the Ira Jinkins Center at 9175 Edes Ave., near the Coliseum. This site will be able to accommodate all ages and families, and Oakland Animal Services will provide overnight shelter for pets. This shelter is currently anticipated to be open by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and will remain open until noon on Friday and can shelter up to 75 people. No referrals are needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936995\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the San José Conservation Corps pile sandbags along the San Francisquito Creek in East Palo Alto on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fremont opened an emergency storm shelter for Wednesday through Friday at the Washington High School gymnasium, located at 38442 Fremont Boulevard. The shelter can accommodate pets. Warm meals, face masks and beverages will be provided. Winter supplies also are available while they last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, Marin County and Santa Rosa both have opened emergency shelters and warming centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency shelter at 3240 Kerner Boulevard in San Rafael will open from 5 p.m. on Wednesday until 6:30 a.m. Thursday. A warming center will be open at that location on Thursday from 9 a.m.–3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in downtown Santa Rosa, a temporary warming center will be available Wednesday night at the Catholic Charities Caritas Center, at 301 6th Street, Suite 108. The center is a place to drop in and warm up, charge devices and get out of the storm, the city said. It is not a shelter, and no cots for sleeping will be available. Those seeking a place to sleep will be provided with a referral, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Road fatality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://nixle.us/E6ZAH\">traffic fatality was reported in Fairfield\u003c/a> Wednesday morning when, according to investigators and witness statements, a 19-year-old driver collided with a utility pole after entering the partially flooded Vanden Road at One Lake. The vehicle hydroplaned, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle. The victim’s name was not released by the Fairfield Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Thunderstorm warning for Inverness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610861507532967936\">severe thunderstorm warning\u003c/a> was in effect for Inverness and Point Reyes Station until 9:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds of up to 60 mph were expected, along with hail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School closures in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials in Sonoma County said Wednesday that some districts and school sites would be closed Thursday, Jan. 5, due to flooding, fallen trees, lack of electricity and other concerns related to the storm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/pub/htdocs/storm-update.html\">A full list of the affected schools in Sonoma County can be found here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>SFPW out of sandbags\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7 p.m., officials from San Francisco’s Department of Public Works said they were shutting down sandbag distribution for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department ran out of sandbags around 6 p.m., after giving away more than 3,400 bags. They were expecting another delivery Wednesday evening, but did not have an estimated arrival time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to reopen sandbag distribution around 6 a.m. on Thursday with a limited supply and will provide updates about any newly arrived supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flash flood warnings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Wednesday for southwestern Monterey County and northwestern San Benito County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of around 8 p.m., dam operators \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=MTR&wwa=flash%20flood%20warning\">reported a spillway had been compromised\u003c/a> and that water could overtop the spillway by Thursday morning. The weather service warned that flash flooding may occur immediately downstream, near Lovers Lane, with increased water flows into Pacheco Creek also likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, doppler radar around 6 p.m. indicated between a quarter- and a half-inch of rain had already fallen, with another half-inch to one-and-a-quarter inches of rain within the next hour. \u003ca href=\"https://inws.ncep.noaa.gov/a/a.php?i=78320965\">Flash flooding was expected\u003c/a> to be ongoing or to begin shortly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive rainfall over the burn area will result in debris flow moving through the Colorado and Dolan burn areas,” weather officials said in an advisory. “The debris flow can consist of rock, mud, vegetation and other loose materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jurisdictions proclaim emergency status\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/news-stories/news/emergency-notifications\">San José\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lovelafayette.org/Home/Components/News/News/9844/18?backlist=%2f\">Lafayette\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/city-of-oakland-declares-a-local-state-of-emergency-and-continues-to-provide-resources-to-community-members-impacted-by-the-winter-storm\">Oakland\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.livermoreca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/664/3774\">Livermore\u003c/a>, Santa Clara County and \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/sonoma-county-opens-emergency-operations-center-in-response-to-storms-and-possible-flooding-issues-public-safety-advisory\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> all declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declarations allow the jurisdictions greater flexibility in contracting and procuring supplies to respond to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First responders rescue SF family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police officers rescued a family trapped in a car that was hit by a falling tree, said San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family, including two adults and one child, were driving near the intersection of Larkin and Grove streets around 6 p.m. Police officers arrived on the scene first and were able to extract the car’s occupants. Firefighters were then able to remove the tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family suffered only minor injuries, and Baxter said, “Miraculously, the car only sustained minor damage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFFDPIO/status/1610823123292786688\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Countywide flood emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District CEO Rick Callender signed a countywide flood emergency Wednesday, which allows the water agency to take immediate action to protect public life and property from flooding and high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Localized flooding occurred along San Francisquito Creek, Upper Penitencia Creek, West Little Llagas Creek and Uvas Creek, agency officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uvas Reservoir spilled and is still spilling; spilling also has occurred in Almaden Reservoir. The County of Santa Clara issued evacuation warnings late Wednesday to community members residing in the watershed areas of the Uvas Reservoir and Pacheco Pass River Basin due to weather conditions and risks to the general public and property.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Power outages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, more than \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">96,000 PG&E customers were without power\u003c/a>. The greatest number of outages was on the Peninsula, with 41,189 customers in the dark, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 13,861 customers were without power in the South Bay, along with 12,686 in the North Bay, 21,097 in the East Bay, and 6,722 in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more#poweroutages\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Check out our guide on how to be prepared for power outages.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Road closures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7:15 p.m., a fallen tree was blocking state Highway 1 in both directions in Bodega Bay, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downed tree was reported at North Harbour Way and is blocking both the northbound and southbound lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of around 7 p.m. Wednesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/alerts/critical\">California Highway Patrol reported\u003c/a> landslides on CA Route 9 near Glengarry Road in Felton and on Route 84 at Mission Boulevard in Fremont, with traffic closed in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downed wires closed Route 35 at Skeggs Point in San Mateo County and Route 116 at Route 121 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936994\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two cars are stuck in a flooded underpass at 34th and Webster streets in Oakland on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Falling rocks, flooding and concerns about waterlogged soil and potential mudslides prompted Caltrans to close a portion of Highway 1 between Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County and Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road was closed as of 5 p.m., and there was no estimated time for reopening. Caltrans officials said crews are monitoring water and debris falling from above the roadway at a location one mile south of Ragged Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Some roads at Mount Diablo State Park are closed\u003c/a> due to rockslides and erosion. North Gate, South Gate and Summit Roads will remain closed until further notice. The closure applies to all visitors including hikers, bicyclists and equestrians and those with campers and vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mitchell Canyon and Macedo Ranch entrances, backcountry trails and fire roads remain open, but visitors are asked to use caution and report trail issues to park staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART delays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7:45 p.m., BART was reporting major systemwide delays due to wet weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was operating limited Green line service between Berryessa and Daly City. Passengers traveling from the San Francisco line can board a Dublin/Pleasanton train and transfer at Bayfair to a Berryessa train. Those traveling from the Berryessa line can board a Richmond train and transfer at Bayfair to a Daly City train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also major delays between Concord and Pleasant Hill in the Antioch and SFO directions due to an obstruction on the track. And, BART was operating limited Red line service on the Richmond line in the Millbrae direction. Passengers traveling from Richmond can board a Berryessa train, transfer at MacArthur to an SFO train, then transfer to a Millbrae train at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information can be found at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov\">www.bart.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Russian River evacuation order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders Wednesday for residents living along the Russian River from Healdsburg to Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasts for Wednesday and overnight into Thursday call for up to 5 inches of rain in the coastal hills and up to 4 inches in higher elevation inland areas. It’s expected that the river will crest at 33 feet by Thursday night and into the early hours on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is expected to recede below flood stage by Friday afternoon, but is forecasted to flood again at 40 feet on Sunday night and into Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For your safety, prepare to leave the areas below the 40-foot flood level along the Russian River,” the sheriff’s office said in an advisory. “Be sure to take essential items, such as medicines with you. If you live above the 40-foot level, your access may be reduced or eliminated due to flood waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information is available at \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/warnings-and-updates/\">www.socopsa.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other evacuation orders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Heavy rains, wind and runoff prompted an evacuation order earlier in the day for parts of Santa Cruz County, as did concerns about potential flooding, debris flow and other dangers in low-lying areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoAlert/status/1610765768160907279\">Alameda County issued evacuation warnings\u003c/a> “due to the storms, saturated soils and current runoff” for residents on Kilkare Road, Palomares Road and Niles Canyon Road. And evacuation orders were issued for areas of Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, where Corralitos and Salsipuedes creeks were expected to rise above their banks, according to a statement from City Manager René Mendez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents at 15 homes in the Seacliff development in Richmond had already evacuated Tuesday night and Wednesday after the hillside above them showed signs of mudslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A geologist was on-site at Seacliff Wednesday morning, as was a local contractor working to mitigate the damage, but there was no estimate for when the residents would be able to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a waiting game right now, with this atmospheric river coming in over the next few days,” said Richmond Police Sgt. Donald Patchin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, which began dumping rain Wednesday morning, has already closed several roads and prompted \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/search?z=8.441138139187743&latlon=37.82682855490971%2C-122.0775452214562\">evacuation warnings and advisories in other parts of Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, a temporary evacuation center was open at Pescadero High School in Pescadero, but as of Wednesday afternoon only a handful of evacuees had trickled in. Laurel Rodriguez-Mitton, an amateur radio emergency services volunteer, was getting ready for an expected increase in visitors later in the evening. The shelter is located inside the gym, where there are cots and tarps on the floor, along with water, snacks and other supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a couple of visitors who got to help out, but nobody who needs to be here for hours on end,” Rodriquez-Mitton said. “We’re expecting probably more people coming in as the storm gets worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of particular concern in Santa Cruz County is Butano Canyon, where the CZU Lightning Complex fire scarred the mountainside in 2020, leaving the slopes vulnerable to mudslide, said Kathleen Moazed, president of the La Honda Fire Brigade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very steep and hilly and wooded,” Moazed said, adding that there is only one road in and out. “I understand a number of people have already evacuated — a precautionary evacuation, just voluntary — in the past couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/search\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>See a list of evacuation orders, warnings and advisories here.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders for multiple areas of Santa Cruz County were issued Wednesday afternoon as more rainfall hit the county, bringing higher flood risks. Evacuation orders in those areas are mandatory and the areas are closed to public access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional locations that will see flooding include San Francisco, Santa Rosa, Richmond, Napa, Petaluma, San Rafael, Novato, Rohnert Park and Sebastopol, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>State of emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The evacuations follow a state of emergency issued Wednesday by the California Governor’s Office, along with the activation of the state’s Flood Operations Center. The center covers forecasting and reservoir operations coordination, and provides technical support and flood-fighting materials, such as sandbags, for local agencies.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gov. Gavin Newsom\"]‘California is mobilizing to keep people safe from the impacts of the incoming storm. This state of emergency will allow the state to respond quickly as the storm develops and support local officials in their ongoing response.’[/pullquote]“California is mobilizing to keep people safe from the impacts of the incoming storm,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement. “This state of emergency will allow the state to respond quickly as the storm develops and support local officials in their ongoing response.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service has forecast widespread flooding, along with washed-out roads, power outages, downed trees and the “likely loss of human life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flood watch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of Northern and Central California is under a flood watch and high-wind warning, and the agency took the unusual step of advising residents to prepare “go-bags” and insurance documentation in advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610802122521735169\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Girding for the storm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>City officials across the region scrambled Wednesday to prepare for the latest storm, while also dealing with the aftereffects of another \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936581/please-stay-home-bay-area-sees-widespread-flooding-road-closures-and-evacuations\">massive deluge over New Year’s Eve\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In East Palo Alto, workers on Wednesday built a 3-foot tarp wall and lined sandbags along the San Francisquito Creek, which overtopped a levee in the last storm and flooded apartments and garages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Palo Alto, like many Bay Area communities of color, has a long history of flooding. The creek serves as the dividing line between East Palo Alto and its affluent neighbors, Palo Alto and Menlo Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about the creek is that it’s a shared resource,” said East Palo Alto Vice Mayor Antonio López. “It’s a reminder [that] regardless of the different class, race or ZIP codes that we come from, we have this fault line that affects all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city reserved 75 rooms at nearby hotels for people the floodwaters displace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Wednesday’s storm won’t be the end of the region’s wet weather. Residual flooding could extend into the weekend, along with additional storms lingering into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Bay City News and KQED reporters Dana Cronin and Ezra David Romero contributed to this story. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ci>This post will no longer be updated.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> The weather in Northern California was significantly calmer on Friday, offering a brief respite before two more atmospheric rivers slam the region this weekend and into next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, evacuation and shelter-in-place orders \u003ca href=\"https://www.saccounty.gov/news/latest-news/Pages/Orders-Lift-as-Storm-Calms-Stay-Vigilant.aspx\">had been lifted in Sacramento County\u003c/a>. In \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/warnings-and-updates/\">Sonoma County, the evacuation warning was still in effect\u003c/a> for all residents living near the Russian River floodway and its tributaries from Healdsburg to Jenner, where the river is likely to flood in the coming days. \u003ca href=\"https://emergency.marincounty.org/\">Marin County issued a flood watch\u003c/a> from 4 a.m. Saturday to 4 p.m. Tuesday. Various \u003ca href=\"https://www.acpwa.org/about-us/roadclosure.page\">roads also remained closed throughout Alameda and\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.contracosta.ca.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=2811\">Contra Costa counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In coastal areas on Friday, wave heights were significantly lower than in previous days, although the surf remained dangerous along much of the coast. As of Friday afternoon, an \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/zones/US-CA-XCZ-CTL-E051?z=13.023867033084587&latlon=36.9666360309846%2C-121.89697355280151\">evacuation order was lifted \u003c/a>for the low-lying areas of the Rio Del Mar Esplanade in Santa Cruz County, but \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/zones/US-CA-XCZ-CTL-E028?z=14.196877408496562&latlon=36.97848333718905%2C-121.95149665432541\">an evacuation warning remained in effect\u003c/a> for low-lying residences in sections of nearby Capitola.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Friday morning, Pacific Gas and Electric had restored power to more than 200,000 customers, but said that tens of thousands of residents in its service area were still without power, including up to 17,000 customers in the Bay Area, according to reporting from Bay City News. The utility reportedly mobilized 3,000 workers and contractors to continue repair work before the next storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recent succession of storms have helped with \u003ca href=\"https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?West\">California’s drought conditions\u003c/a>, moving the state out of the “exceptional drought” category, but the precipitation won’t be nearly enough to officially end the four-year drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 4 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/b> Pacific Gas and Electric on Thursday afternoon said about 440,000 customers across its vast service area — including a number of schools — lost power at some point on Wednesday or Thursday morning. Roughly 325,000 have had their power restored, and another 40,000 should be back online by late Thursday, the utility said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers who still don’t have power after today could be in for a long wait, said Janisse Quiñones, PG&E’s senior vice president of electric operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because we don’t have access to many of the areas, or the conditions are really dangerous for our crews, trees are falling around them, we have flooding and soil movement when they are trying to restore our service,” Quiñones said in an afternoon press briefing. She noted that winds late Wednesday reached close to 100 mph in some higher-elevation service areas. “Right now our [helicopters] are grounded. The weather is preventing us from bringing any aerial equipment up in the air.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñones said there are 369 PG&E restoration crews currently out in the field, along with about 25 crews from other West Coast utilities providing mutual aid. But the succession of storms and the short windows of time between them have made restoration efforts challenging, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a series of storms coming in the system. We got hit on New Year’s [Eve] with a storm, we got hit yesterday with a storm, we’re expecting a storm Saturday, and another storm system Monday, which creates a very limited window of opening for restoration for our crews,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quiñones urged anyone who sees a downed power line to first call 911 and then contact PG&E — and to never touch or get near it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 2:30 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Authorities have released more information about a 2-year-old boy who was killed by a falling tree in the Sonoma County community of Occidental on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy was sitting in his living room around 5 p.m. when the tree fell and landed on top of the mobile home, pinning him underneath, sheriff’s Sgt. Juan Valencia told KQED.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The boy’s father and some neighbors had pulled the boy from under the tree by the time first responders arrived, Valencia said. They performed CPR and the child was pronounced dead at 5:48 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boy was one of at least two people who died in Wednesday’s storm. Fairfield police said a 19-year-old woman was killed when her car hydroplaned on a wet road and struck a pole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, authorities shuttered numerous roadways due to downed trees, power lines and other hazards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A rockslide closed a stretch of Highway 1 between Stinson Beach and Muir Beach, Marin County said on Twitter. Further down the coast, a section of the coastal highway in Carmel was closed due to massive waves reaching the roadway, and another section south of Big Sur was closed because of falling rock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Picture of slide on \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/Hwy1?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Hwy1\u003c/a> from this morning at Polar Star, one mile south of Ragged Point. Contractor engaged to help clear. Full closure remains in place. Assessments ongoing. Continue to ask public to please keep out of the closure area which will permit crews to work safely. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/9TmAebtqJn\">pic.twitter.com/9TmAebtqJn\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Caltrans District 5 (@CaltransD5) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/CaltransD5/status/1611101375353716737?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A landslide also blocked a lane of northbound Highway 1 in Pacifica, just past Manor Drive, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 1 p.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Santa Cruz County authorities lifted evacuation orders Thursday morning for potential flood areas as the worst of the storm has passed, but huge waves and high tides from the atmospheric river remained a threat to residents in coastal areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you can evacuate safely, please do so immediately. If you are unable to evacuate, please shelter in place, move away from ocean facing windows,” the county sheriff’s office said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service warned of dangerous swimming and surfing conditions as 20- to 30-foot-high waves hit the central California coastline. The waves broke apart two piers in Santa Cruz County, and flooded the picture-postcard town of Capitola. Dramatic eyewitness videos show water thrashing against waterfront restaurants and businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Capitola Beach and Pier are under siege with tide and surf still rising. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/89b1CAGfg6\">pic.twitter.com/89b1CAGfg6\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— sports business (@soulfocussports) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/soulfocussports/status/1611025441808330756?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby, the California Highway Patrol urged people to avoid coming to Seacliff State Beach in Aptos because of coastal flooding. An old concrete ship broke away from the beach’s pier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In low-lying areas of Marin County, a combination of the rain and tides flooded some roadways. Authorities closed Miller Avenue, a major thoroughfare, and urged drivers to slow down and avoid large bodies of standing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, forecasters dialed back flood predictions for the Russian River in Sonoma County. The National Weather Service previously projected the area could become inundated by Thursday afternoon, potentially causing minor flooding in Guerneville, Monte Rio and other parts of the popular vacation getaway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is now forecast to \u003ca href=\"https://cnrfc.noaa.gov/graphicalRVF.php?id=GUEC1\">reach flood stage on Sunday afternoon\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/strong>Forecasters said lighter rain and isolated thunderstorms are expected to pass through the Bay Area the rest of Thursday, giving residents a bit of a break to clean up and assess damages before another storm arrives Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A flood watch remains in effect until 4 p.m. because additional rainfall to an already soaked region could lead to rapid rises along creeks, streams and flood-prone areas, the National Weather Service said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not done with the water just yet,” said Brayden Murdock, a meteorologist with the weather service’s Bay Area office. “With our next pattern coming through, it’s going to be almost daily where we see some wet conditions. Luckily not seeing the rainfall amounts like we saw with the main rainband last night, but still we’re not done with this wet pattern.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the South Bay, gusty winds and towering waves split the Capitola wharf in half and flooded the Santa Cruz County seaside town. The waves also breached the seawall in Pacifica and prompted the weather service to issue a high surf warning until 3 a.m. Friday, urging beachgoers to stay off jetties and coastal rocks and stay out of the surf zone. Beaches could be hit by up to 30-foot waves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The storm has caused significant damage throughout the county and along the coast, including heavy damage to piers in Capitola and Seacliff. High tide and large surf is a dangerous combination - avoid the coast. \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/XiyuJBQUFB\">pic.twitter.com/XiyuJBQUFB\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Santa Cruz County (@sccounty) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/sccounty/status/1611050779439419394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest in a series of atmospheric rivers slammed into the Bay Area late Wednesday, causing widespread flooding and power outages affecting nearly \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">145,000 Pacific Gas and Electric customers\u003c/a>. The weather contributed to at least two deaths: a toddler who was killed after a tree fell onto a house in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, and a Fairfield woman whose car hydroplaned on a wet road and slammed into a pole.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a family was rescued by firefighters Wednesday evening when a tree fell onto their car on Larkin Street. Near the zoo, another tree fell onto a person who had to be rushed to a trauma center in stable condition, the city’s Fire Department tweeted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters responded to dozens of calls about downed trees and power lines. Winds gusting to 85 mph forced the cancellation of more than 70 flights at San Francisco International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby in South San Francisco, the winds knocked over the roof of a Valero gas station’s canopy, damaging at least one fueling station. The city \u003ca href=\"https://www.ssf.net/home/showpublisheddocument/28668/638085077593622620\">opened a temporary evacuation center\u003c/a> for the more than 3,000 residents who were without power Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Update, 8:30 a.m. Thursday: \u003c/b>Heavy rain and damaging winds from the “bomb cyclone” knocked down trees, flooded roads and cut power to tens of thousands of homes and businesses as of Thursday morning, and contributed to the deaths of at least two people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/toddler-dies-after-tree-lands-on-occidental-home/?ref=moststory\">A toddler was killed Wednesday night\u003c/a> after a tree fell and landed on a house in the Sonoma County town of Occidental, volunteer firefighters there told local media. In Fairfield, \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/FairfieldPolice\">a 19-year-old woman was killed \u003c/a>after she lost control of her vehicle on a flooded road and slammed into a utility pole, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm dropped heavy rain in parts of the Bay Area. \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=mtr&issuedby=MTR&product=RR6\">A preliminary rainfall report \u003c/a>from the National Weather Service estimates that as much as 4 to 5 inches of rain fell over a 24-hour period in the mountains south of Monterey, while most of the rest of the region received 1 to 2 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But any additional rain to areas already soaked by multiple storms since Christmas is prompting fears of mudslides, flooding and downed power lines and trees. California issued a state of emergency to support response to the storm and recovery efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://poweroutage.us/area/state/california\">170,000 homes and businesses were without power in California Thursday morning\u003c/a>, according to poweroutage.us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n\u003cp lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Radar Update 6:52 AM - Don't put away those umbrellas yet. Here's a radar loop over the last hour showing showers. Some showers may be heavy at times. Allow extra time for the commute. For the rest of today showers and even thunderstorms are still possible. \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hashtag/cawx?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#cawx\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://t.co/WUq7TQGMDX\">pic.twitter.com/WUq7TQGMDX\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1611012763979231232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 5, 2023\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cscript async src=\"https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\">\u003c/script>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Original story, 8:45 p.m. Wednesday: \u003c/b>Gusting \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610799458618609666\">winds of up to 85 mph\u003c/a> in parts of the Bay Area bore down on the region Wednesday afternoon, and the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610779204517498881\">heaviest rainfall of the “bomb cyclone” hit \u003c/a>in the early evening, with heavy rain and winds to continue into Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm prompted evacuation warnings, triggered landslides, closed roads and downed trees. But the morning rain totals were less than predicted, with about a half-inch falling in San Francisco, said Mary Ellen Carroll, executive director of San Francisco’s Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been a quiet day … until about an hour ago,” Carroll said as winds and rainfall picked up in the late afternoon. “The storm we have all been waiting for is here.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is collaborating with various nonprofits to provide outreach services and shelter on a first-come, first-served basis at four locations through next week. \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing-temporary-shelter/\">A list of those SF locations can be found here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco residents experiencing homelessness and in need of support are encouraged to contact the Homeless Outreach Team dispatch line at (628) 652-8000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the East Bay, a number of warming centers and shelters are now open. Hayward secured additional hotel rooms and is prepared to open an emergency shelter at the Matt Jimenez Community Center in South Hayward for residents without housing or for those forced from home during rainstorms this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members living unsheltered or displaced due to flooding and other storm effects — or aware of someone in need of assistance — may contact the City of Hayward Emergency Operations Center at (510) 583-2182.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is partnering with its year-round shelter at St. Vincent de Paul, located at 675 23rd Street in West Oakland, to double their bed capacity to serve up to 100 people through Friday morning. Shelter beds can be secured through referral, reservation and walk-up on a first-come, first-served basis. People seeking shelter can contact St. Vincent de Paul directly at (510) 638-7600.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland also is opening an additional emergency shelter at the Ira Jinkins Center at 9175 Edes Ave., near the Coliseum. This site will be able to accommodate all ages and families, and Oakland Animal Services will provide overnight shelter for pets. This shelter is currently anticipated to be open by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday and will remain open until noon on Friday and can shelter up to 75 people. No referrals are needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936995\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936995\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/B45F2848-0627-4A90-85AA-68FEAAB98F36.jpg 1384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the San José Conservation Corps pile sandbags along the San Francisquito Creek in East Palo Alto on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fremont opened an emergency storm shelter for Wednesday through Friday at the Washington High School gymnasium, located at 38442 Fremont Boulevard. The shelter can accommodate pets. Warm meals, face masks and beverages will be provided. Winter supplies also are available while they last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the North Bay, Marin County and Santa Rosa both have opened emergency shelters and warming centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An emergency shelter at 3240 Kerner Boulevard in San Rafael will open from 5 p.m. on Wednesday until 6:30 a.m. Thursday. A warming center will be open at that location on Thursday from 9 a.m.–3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in downtown Santa Rosa, a temporary warming center will be available Wednesday night at the Catholic Charities Caritas Center, at 301 6th Street, Suite 108. The center is a place to drop in and warm up, charge devices and get out of the storm, the city said. It is not a shelter, and no cots for sleeping will be available. Those seeking a place to sleep will be provided with a referral, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Road fatality\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://nixle.us/E6ZAH\">traffic fatality was reported in Fairfield\u003c/a> Wednesday morning when, according to investigators and witness statements, a 19-year-old driver collided with a utility pole after entering the partially flooded Vanden Road at One Lake. The vehicle hydroplaned, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle. The victim’s name was not released by the Fairfield Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Thunderstorm warning for Inverness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NWSBayArea/status/1610861507532967936\">severe thunderstorm warning\u003c/a> was in effect for Inverness and Point Reyes Station until 9:30 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Winds of up to 60 mph were expected, along with hail.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>School closures in Sonoma County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Officials in Sonoma County said Wednesday that some districts and school sites would be closed Thursday, Jan. 5, due to flooding, fallen trees, lack of electricity and other concerns related to the storm. \u003ca href=\"https://www.scoe.org/pub/htdocs/storm-update.html\">A full list of the affected schools in Sonoma County can be found here.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>SFPW out of sandbags\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7 p.m., officials from San Francisco’s Department of Public Works said they were shutting down sandbag distribution for the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department ran out of sandbags around 6 p.m., after giving away more than 3,400 bags. They were expecting another delivery Wednesday evening, but did not have an estimated arrival time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They plan to reopen sandbag distribution around 6 a.m. on Thursday with a limited supply and will provide updates about any newly arrived supply.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Flash flood warnings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings Wednesday for southwestern Monterey County and northwestern San Benito County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of around 8 p.m., dam operators \u003ca href=\"https://forecast.weather.gov/wwamap/wwatxtget.php?cwa=MTR&wwa=flash%20flood%20warning\">reported a spillway had been compromised\u003c/a> and that water could overtop the spillway by Thursday morning. The weather service warned that flash flooding may occur immediately downstream, near Lovers Lane, with increased water flows into Pacheco Creek also likely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Monterey County, doppler radar around 6 p.m. indicated between a quarter- and a half-inch of rain had already fallen, with another half-inch to one-and-a-quarter inches of rain within the next hour. \u003ca href=\"https://inws.ncep.noaa.gov/a/a.php?i=78320965\">Flash flooding was expected\u003c/a> to be ongoing or to begin shortly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Excessive rainfall over the burn area will result in debris flow moving through the Colorado and Dolan burn areas,” weather officials said in an advisory. “The debris flow can consist of rock, mud, vegetation and other loose materials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Jurisdictions proclaim emergency status\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/news-stories/news/emergency-notifications\">San José\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.lovelafayette.org/Home/Components/News/News/9844/18?backlist=%2f\">Lafayette\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/news/2023/city-of-oakland-declares-a-local-state-of-emergency-and-continues-to-provide-resources-to-community-members-impacted-by-the-winter-storm\">Oakland\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.livermoreca.gov/Home/Components/News/News/664/3774\">Livermore\u003c/a>, Santa Clara County and \u003ca href=\"https://sonomacounty.ca.gov/sonoma-county-opens-emergency-operations-center-in-response-to-storms-and-possible-flooding-issues-public-safety-advisory\">Sonoma County\u003c/a> all declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The declarations allow the jurisdictions greater flexibility in contracting and procuring supplies to respond to the storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>First responders rescue SF family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco police officers rescued a family trapped in a car that was hit by a falling tree, said San Francisco Fire Department spokesperson Jonathan Baxter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family, including two adults and one child, were driving near the intersection of Larkin and Grove streets around 6 p.m. Police officers arrived on the scene first and were able to extract the car’s occupants. Firefighters were then able to remove the tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family suffered only minor injuries, and Baxter said, “Miraculously, the car only sustained minor damage.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003ch2>Countywide flood emergency\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District CEO Rick Callender signed a countywide flood emergency Wednesday, which allows the water agency to take immediate action to protect public life and property from flooding and high winds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Localized flooding occurred along San Francisquito Creek, Upper Penitencia Creek, West Little Llagas Creek and Uvas Creek, agency officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Uvas Reservoir spilled and is still spilling; spilling also has occurred in Almaden Reservoir. The County of Santa Clara issued evacuation warnings late Wednesday to community members residing in the watershed areas of the Uvas Reservoir and Pacheco Pass River Basin due to weather conditions and risks to the general public and property.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Power outages\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, more than \u003ca href=\"https://pgealerts.alerts.pge.com/outagecenter/\">96,000 PG&E customers were without power\u003c/a>. The greatest number of outages was on the Peninsula, with 41,189 customers in the dark, according to PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another 13,861 customers were without power in the South Bay, along with 12,686 in the North Bay, 21,097 in the East Bay, and 6,722 in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more#poweroutages\">\u003cem>\u003cstrong>Check out our guide on how to be prepared for power outages.\u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Road closures\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7:15 p.m., a fallen tree was blocking state Highway 1 in both directions in Bodega Bay, according to the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The downed tree was reported at North Harbour Way and is blocking both the northbound and southbound lanes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of around 7 p.m. Wednesday, the \u003ca href=\"https://511.org/alerts/critical\">California Highway Patrol reported\u003c/a> landslides on CA Route 9 near Glengarry Road in Felton and on Route 84 at Mission Boulevard in Fremont, with traffic closed in both directions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Downed wires closed Route 35 at Skeggs Point in San Mateo County and Route 116 at Route 121 in Sonoma County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936994\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/E2081DCF-BC1D-480F-B27A-DBB7E0C45B3A.jpg 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two cars are stuck in a flooded underpass at 34th and Webster streets in Oakland on Jan. 4, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Falling rocks, flooding and concerns about waterlogged soil and potential mudslides prompted Caltrans to close a portion of Highway 1 between Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County and Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn in Monterey County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The road was closed as of 5 p.m., and there was no estimated time for reopening. Caltrans officials said crews are monitoring water and debris falling from above the roadway at a location one mile south of Ragged Point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=517\">Some roads at Mount Diablo State Park are closed\u003c/a> due to rockslides and erosion. North Gate, South Gate and Summit Roads will remain closed until further notice. The closure applies to all visitors including hikers, bicyclists and equestrians and those with campers and vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mitchell Canyon and Macedo Ranch entrances, backcountry trails and fire roads remain open, but visitors are asked to use caution and report trail issues to park staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>BART delays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As of around 7:45 p.m., BART was reporting major systemwide delays due to wet weather conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was operating limited Green line service between Berryessa and Daly City. Passengers traveling from the San Francisco line can board a Dublin/Pleasanton train and transfer at Bayfair to a Berryessa train. Those traveling from the Berryessa line can board a Richmond train and transfer at Bayfair to a Daly City train.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were also major delays between Concord and Pleasant Hill in the Antioch and SFO directions due to an obstruction on the track. And, BART was operating limited Red line service on the Richmond line in the Millbrae direction. Passengers traveling from Richmond can board a Berryessa train, transfer at MacArthur to an SFO train, then transfer to a Millbrae train at SFO.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More information can be found at \u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov\">www.bart.gov\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Russian River evacuation order\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office issued evacuation orders Wednesday for residents living along the Russian River from Healdsburg to Jenner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasts for Wednesday and overnight into Thursday call for up to 5 inches of rain in the coastal hills and up to 4 inches in higher elevation inland areas. It’s expected that the river will crest at 33 feet by Thursday night and into the early hours on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The river is expected to recede below flood stage by Friday afternoon, but is forecasted to flood again at 40 feet on Sunday night and into Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For your safety, prepare to leave the areas below the 40-foot flood level along the Russian River,” the sheriff’s office said in an advisory. “Be sure to take essential items, such as medicines with you. If you live above the 40-foot level, your access may be reduced or eliminated due to flood waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional information is available at \u003ca href=\"https://socoemergency.org/emergency/warnings-and-updates/\">www.socopsa.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Other evacuation orders\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Heavy rains, wind and runoff prompted an evacuation order earlier in the day for parts of Santa Cruz County, as did concerns about potential flooding, debris flow and other dangers in low-lying areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AlamedaCoAlert/status/1610765768160907279\">Alameda County issued evacuation warnings\u003c/a> “due to the storms, saturated soils and current runoff” for residents on Kilkare Road, Palomares Road and Niles Canyon Road. And evacuation orders were issued for areas of Watsonville in Santa Cruz County, where Corralitos and Salsipuedes creeks were expected to rise above their banks, according to a statement from City Manager René Mendez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Residents at 15 homes in the Seacliff development in Richmond had already evacuated Tuesday night and Wednesday after the hillside above them showed signs of mudslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A geologist was on-site at Seacliff Wednesday morning, as was a local contractor working to mitigate the damage, but there was no estimate for when the residents would be able to return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a waiting game right now, with this atmospheric river coming in over the next few days,” said Richmond Police Sgt. Donald Patchin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storm, which began dumping rain Wednesday morning, has already closed several roads and prompted \u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/search?z=8.441138139187743&latlon=37.82682855490971%2C-122.0775452214562\">evacuation warnings and advisories in other parts of Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Cruz County, a temporary evacuation center was open at Pescadero High School in Pescadero, but as of Wednesday afternoon only a handful of evacuees had trickled in. Laurel Rodriguez-Mitton, an amateur radio emergency services volunteer, was getting ready for an expected increase in visitors later in the evening. The shelter is located inside the gym, where there are cots and tarps on the floor, along with water, snacks and other supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had a couple of visitors who got to help out, but nobody who needs to be here for hours on end,” Rodriquez-Mitton said. “We’re expecting probably more people coming in as the storm gets worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of particular concern in Santa Cruz County is Butano Canyon, where the CZU Lightning Complex fire scarred the mountainside in 2020, leaving the slopes vulnerable to mudslide, said Kathleen Moazed, president of the La Honda Fire Brigade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very steep and hilly and wooded,” Moazed said, adding that there is only one road in and out. “I understand a number of people have already evacuated — a precautionary evacuation, just voluntary — in the past couple of days.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://aware.zonehaven.com/search\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>See a list of evacuation orders, warnings and advisories here.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Evacuation orders for multiple areas of Santa Cruz County were issued Wednesday afternoon as more rainfall hit the county, bringing higher flood risks. 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"content": "\u003cp>Raising questions about whether California’s elaborate system of flood protections will hold, another dangerous storm is barreling toward the Sacramento Valley, where rains already punched through some levees, and floods killed at least one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storms have already tested the flood-prevention infrastructure across the region, which sits at the confluence of two major rivers and bears the brunt of heavy rains. “It’s a bathtub, basically,” said Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer for the federal Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1.3 million people and $223 billion worth of property in the Central Valley are protected by the state-federal systems of levees, dams and other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California spends $48 million annually to operate flood protections but needs much more — “$3.2 billion over the next five years of implementation,” according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, a document produced in 2012 and updated last month. Of that, the state’s responsibility ranges from $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated $25 billion to $30 billion in funding over 30 years could help the state “avoid the astronomical cost of catastrophic flooding in the Central Valley estimated to be as high as $1 trillion, in addition to an incalculable toll on lives and public well-being,” the plan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png\" alt=\"Flooding area aerial view\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows flooded fields off River Road near Locke on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, this winter’s storms have been severe but not catastrophic: The New Year’s Eve storm “stalled out” over the watershed of the Cosumnes River. Portions of privately owned levees on the river gave way, flooding nearby areas. The levees, constructed to reclaim the land for agriculture, are generally rated only to handle a 10-year flood, according to Sacramento County officials. The breeching of the levees shut down Highway 99 and stranded motorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the region’s two major reservoirs held, and the Sacramento and American rivers did not experience major floods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investments we’ve made to the flood system have absolutely helped,” said Gary Lippner, the Department of Water Resources’ deputy director of flood management and dam safety. “At the larger scale, our system is much more ready for high-water events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Central Valley has a long, painful history of deluges: \u003ca href=\"https://cw3e.ucsd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dettinger_Ingram_sciam13.pdf\">The Great Flood of 1861–2 (PDF)\u003c/a>, triggered by weeks of rain and snow, is still remembered as the worst disaster ever to befall California, inundating the entire valley, killing thousands of people statewide and devastating the economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s capital city was built in a floodplain and requires an extensive system of dams and levees to protect it. Even now, federal, state and local authorities are in the midst of upgrading those defenses, particularly in the Sacramento region, where multiyear, multibillion-dollar projects are underway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Major improvements have been made in the region and more also are underway, thanks to about $1.8 billion in state and federal funds. The Army Corps and state have been upgrading about 45 miles of levees over a five-year period, and work on the final 2.8 miles is scheduled to begin in the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the structural upgrades are raising levee heights, boring as deep as 150 feet to reinforce levees to prevent seepage and piling rocks on riverbanks to reduce erosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the work that we’ve done along the American and Sacramento rivers are helping the current situation. We are not seeing flooding off these rivers,” Salyers said. The completed projects are now weather-tested, she said, and “performing the way we wanted them to.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer, US Army Corps of Engineers\"]‘All of the work that we’ve done along the American and Sacramento rivers are helping the current situation. We are not seeing flooding off these rivers.’ [/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials expressed confidence that the Central Valley’s levees and bypasses will contain the deluges coming this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a significant amount of capacity within the bypass system in that 1,600 miles of levee, and I don’t anticipate … there to be emergency management needs,” Lippner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every flood-protection system has its limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who studies extreme weather events, warned in a scientific report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">a major atmospheric river-type flood event could, in the worst of scenarios, cause $1 trillion in damage in the Central Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain and his co-author, Xingying Huang of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, warned that a storm could station itself over the state for weeks on end, producing 3 feet or more of rain, inundating major population centers and disrupting economic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, noted that impacts from the upcoming storm system could escalate to a “worst-case scenario” if it “becomes an unrelenting series of storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters are warning residents in the Sacramento region and the Bay Area to prepare today for yet another assault, this time from a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone/433474\">bomb cyclone\u003c/a>” spinning in the Pacific that will not make landfall but will amplify rain, wind and frigid temperatures along the coast and foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters today are expecting more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/02/california-drought-floods-atmospheric-rivers-reservoir-management-hurricane-hunters/\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> — the powerful streams of tropical moisture that deliver most of California’s winter rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a high-impact event, a pretty intense storm Wednesday night,” Swain said. “The stage is set for something potentially big to happen if the model trends toward the higher end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some flooding. It’s a question of how much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We like rain in California, but we love snow’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mountains that supply these reservoirs, snow levels are now above average. The Department of Water Resources’ first snow survey of the season took place on Tuesday at Phillips Station, in the Sierra Nevada, west of Lake Tahoe. Scientists measured 55.5 inches of snow and a snow water equivalent of 17.5 inches. That’s 177% of average for this location. Statewide, snowpack levels are at 174% of average for that date.[aside tag=\"flood, atmospheroc-river\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]This is the best start to California’s snow season in 40 years, according to Department of Water Resources officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be hasty, though, to assume the ongoing storms and wet forecast mark an end to the prolonged drought. In 2021, record rains and heavy snowfall arrived between October and December. Then, California experienced its driest January-through-March — typically the state’s wettest months — in recorded history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts say consecutive storms are made more dangerous by an already-soaked landscape’s inability to absorb more water. In addition to creating swollen creeks and mudslides, incessant rain reduces soil’s ability to hold vegetation, and California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2016/07/what-is-killing-californias-trees/\">millions of drought-ravaged trees\u003c/a> can easily fall over. Areas with wildfire burn scars are at risk of flash-flooding, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big wild card will be what happens next week,” Swain said. “There’s a wide range of uncertainty. If one or two of those events occur next week, then all bets are off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although rain has fallen on Southern California, the area has largely been spared. The worst of the coming storm will mostly stop at the northern edge of Los Angeles County, Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"”More\" aria-label=\"”Map”\" id=\"”datawrapper-chart-X61ZG”\" src=\"%E2%80%9Dhttps://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/X61ZG/3/%E2%80%9D\" scrolling=\"”no”\" frameborder=\"”0″\" style=\"”width:\" height=\"”692″\" data-external=\"”1″>!function(){“use\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe> [datawrapper]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Dolan, president of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, advised residents throughout the Central Valley to stay on guard and take warnings and advisories to heart. “If you’re at an elevation below 200 feet, near a levee that’s older than you, pay attention to alerts,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has established \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/with-another-significant-storm-looming-cal-oes-continues-to-deploy-resources-personnel-to-impacted-counties/\">emergency shelters\u003c/a> in Sacramento and San Mateo counties and has stockpiled 3.7 million sandbags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts think the flooding from the incoming storms could be tempered by the fact that the developing system is relatively cold. This will translate into more snow and less rain, at least at high elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storm was relatively warm and produced rainfall at high elevations, where the liquid water fell on several feet of snow, melting it and magnifying the runoff into streams and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s storm is colder. That means more precipitation will probably fall as snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like rain in California, but we love snow,” said \u003ca href=\"https://snri.ucmerced.edu/content/john-abatzoglou\">John Abatzoglou\u003c/a>, UC Merced professor of climatology. He said that over the weekend, rain fell at elevations of 8,000 feet or more and may have worsened lowland flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said today’s storm will probably produce rainfall at no higher than 5,000 to 6,000 feet and snowfall above that, minimizing rain-on-snow flooding impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a good mix of both heavy rain at the lower elevations, snowfall at the higher elevations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Need to act with renewed urgency’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate modeling suggests that global warming is likely to make storms larger, stronger and more intense. It will also cause more precipitation to fall in liquid form. This translates into worsening floods just as the Central Valley’s system of levees, weirs and bypasses ages past its prime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flood board’s updated \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, released last month, warns of “1,000-year storm events … and the need to act with renewed urgency and purpose before the next large flood event occurs in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls on nature-based solutions, like restored floodplains, and infrastructural improvements, like fortified levees near urban areas, to help reduce the impacts of higher-energy storm systems expected as a result of the warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the historic floodplains along the Central Valley’s rivers have been separated from the water by levees. Scientists now say that restoring floodplains can be an effective flood control strategy by allowing surging rivers to spill their banks and shed their energy on unpopulated flatlands, rather than bursting through aging levees surrounding populated areas. Floodplains also provide fish and wildlife habitat and serve as groundwater percolation beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png\" alt=\"View of flooding with some green grass amidst water\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field off Interstate 5 near Mokelumne City is flooded on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a lot of rain falls in a short span of time, it’s difficult for many regions to handle, especially low-lying coastal areas. Last weekend downtown San Francisco was drenched with nearly 6 inches of rain and incoming high tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of time for that water to find a way out,” said Mark Dickman, associate director for data at the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento. “There’s just nowhere for it to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a persistent and familiar challenge: what to do with water when there’s too much and how to manage when there isn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are built for this,” said Jeffrey Mount, a water specialist at the Public Policy Institute of California. “We built the system around the notion that we get occasionally wet years and mostly dry years. But, unlike the Colorado River Basin, where they can capture and control four years of runoff, we are full after one year. Our ability to store surface water is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the nature of a semi-arid climate that we will see this whiplash — the three driest years on record and, if this year continues, we will get a year like 2017, the wettest on record. We have not figured out how to better take advantage of these wet years to get us through the dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it takes decades to change traditional approaches to flood control, Mount said the current projects are a step in the right direction. “I see a lot of really good things coming out of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will it be a drought-buster?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ongoing rains are already boosting California’s water storage system. Major reservoirs are rising, some rapidly. Folsom Lake was 29% full on Dec. 20, and as of Jan. 2 it jumped to 61%. The much larger Lake Oroville jumped from 29% to 38% in the same window — an increase of more than 300,000 acre-feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought isn’t over yet and the West Coast remains dominated by a “weak to moderate” La Niña system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as the fall, scientists predicted California was in for a fourth year of drought and predicted the rare occurrence of a third consecutive La Niña, the El Niño counterpart associated with dry Southern California weather and, generally, 50-50 odds of drought farther north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abatzoglou of UC Merced said he suspects more rain will fall this month than fell from January through June last year. But he noted that recent forecasts for dry weather have not proven perfectly accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Forecasts were anticipating a dry January, February and March,” he said. “January is now going to be wet.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Raising questions about whether California’s elaborate system of flood protections will hold, another dangerous storm is barreling toward the Sacramento Valley, where rains already punched through some levees, and floods killed at least one person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storms have already tested the flood-prevention infrastructure across the region, which sits at the confluence of two major rivers and bears the brunt of heavy rains. “It’s a bathtub, basically,” said Beth Salyers, deputy district engineer for the federal Army Corps of Engineers in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated 1.3 million people and $223 billion worth of property in the Central Valley are protected by the state-federal systems of levees, dams and other structures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California spends $48 million annually to operate flood protections but needs much more — “$3.2 billion over the next five years of implementation,” according to the state’s \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, a document produced in 2012 and updated last month. Of that, the state’s responsibility ranges from $1.8 billion to $2.8 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An estimated $25 billion to $30 billion in funding over 30 years could help the state “avoid the astronomical cost of catastrophic flooding in the Central Valley estimated to be as high as $1 trillion, in addition to an incalculable toll on lives and public well-being,” the plan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936746\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936746\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png\" alt=\"Flooding area aerial view\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/An-aerial-view-shows-flooded-fields.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view shows flooded fields off River Road near Locke on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, this winter’s storms have been severe but not catastrophic: The New Year’s Eve storm “stalled out” over the watershed of the Cosumnes River. Portions of privately owned levees on the river gave way, flooding nearby areas. The levees, constructed to reclaim the land for agriculture, are generally rated only to handle a 10-year flood, according to Sacramento County officials. The breeching of the levees shut down Highway 99 and stranded motorists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State officials expressed confidence that the Central Valley’s levees and bypasses will contain the deluges coming this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do have a significant amount of capacity within the bypass system in that 1,600 miles of levee, and I don’t anticipate … there to be emergency management needs,” Lippner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But every flood-protection system has its limits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist who studies extreme weather events, warned in a scientific report that \u003ca href=\"https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abq0995\">a major atmospheric river-type flood event could, in the worst of scenarios, cause $1 trillion in damage in the Central Valley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swain and his co-author, Xingying Huang of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, warned that a storm could station itself over the state for weeks on end, producing 3 feet or more of rain, inundating major population centers and disrupting economic activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Anderson, a climatologist with the California Department of Water Resources, noted that impacts from the upcoming storm system could escalate to a “worst-case scenario” if it “becomes an unrelenting series of storms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters are warning residents in the Sacramento region and the Bay Area to prepare today for yet another assault, this time from a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/what-is-a-bomb-cyclone/433474\">bomb cyclone\u003c/a>” spinning in the Pacific that will not make landfall but will amplify rain, wind and frigid temperatures along the coast and foothills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters today are expecting more \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/environment/2020/02/california-drought-floods-atmospheric-rivers-reservoir-management-hurricane-hunters/\">atmospheric rivers\u003c/a> — the powerful streams of tropical moisture that deliver most of California’s winter rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a high-impact event, a pretty intense storm Wednesday night,” Swain said. “The stage is set for something potentially big to happen if the model trends toward the higher end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be some flooding. It’s a question of how much.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘We like rain in California, but we love snow’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the mountains that supply these reservoirs, snow levels are now above average. The Department of Water Resources’ first snow survey of the season took place on Tuesday at Phillips Station, in the Sierra Nevada, west of Lake Tahoe. Scientists measured 55.5 inches of snow and a snow water equivalent of 17.5 inches. That’s 177% of average for this location. Statewide, snowpack levels are at 174% of average for that date.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jane Dolan, president of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, advised residents throughout the Central Valley to stay on guard and take warnings and advisories to heart. “If you’re at an elevation below 200 feet, near a levee that’s older than you, pay attention to alerts,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has established \u003ca href=\"https://news.caloes.ca.gov/with-another-significant-storm-looming-cal-oes-continues-to-deploy-resources-personnel-to-impacted-counties/\">emergency shelters\u003c/a> in Sacramento and San Mateo counties and has stockpiled 3.7 million sandbags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some experts think the flooding from the incoming storms could be tempered by the fact that the developing system is relatively cold. This will translate into more snow and less rain, at least at high elevations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last weekend’s storm was relatively warm and produced rainfall at high elevations, where the liquid water fell on several feet of snow, melting it and magnifying the runoff into streams and rivers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But today’s storm is colder. That means more precipitation will probably fall as snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We like rain in California, but we love snow,” said \u003ca href=\"https://snri.ucmerced.edu/content/john-abatzoglou\">John Abatzoglou\u003c/a>, UC Merced professor of climatology. He said that over the weekend, rain fell at elevations of 8,000 feet or more and may have worsened lowland flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson said today’s storm will probably produce rainfall at no higher than 5,000 to 6,000 feet and snowfall above that, minimizing rain-on-snow flooding impacts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This will be a good mix of both heavy rain at the lower elevations, snowfall at the higher elevations,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Need to act with renewed urgency’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Climate modeling suggests that global warming is likely to make storms larger, stronger and more intense. It will also cause more precipitation to fall in liquid form. This translates into worsening floods just as the Central Valley’s system of levees, weirs and bypasses ages past its prime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flood board’s updated \u003ca href=\"http://cvfpb.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Central_Valley_Flood_Protection_Plan_Update_2022_ADOPTED.pdf\">Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (PDF)\u003c/a>, released last month, warns of “1,000-year storm events … and the need to act with renewed urgency and purpose before the next large flood event occurs in the Central Valley.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan calls on nature-based solutions, like restored floodplains, and infrastructural improvements, like fortified levees near urban areas, to help reduce the impacts of higher-energy storm systems expected as a result of the warming climate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the historic floodplains along the Central Valley’s rivers have been separated from the water by levees. Scientists now say that restoring floodplains can be an effective flood control strategy by allowing surging rivers to spill their banks and shed their energy on unpopulated flatlands, rather than bursting through aging levees surrounding populated areas. Floodplains also provide fish and wildlife habitat and serve as groundwater percolation beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11936751\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11936751\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png\" alt=\"View of flooding with some green grass amidst water\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/Flood_image3.png 975w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A field off Interstate 5 near Mokelumne City is flooded on Jan. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When a lot of rain falls in a short span of time, it’s difficult for many regions to handle, especially low-lying coastal areas. Last weekend downtown San Francisco was drenched with nearly 6 inches of rain and incoming high tide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It takes a lot of time for that water to find a way out,” said Mark Dickman, associate director for data at the U.S. Geological Survey in Sacramento. “There’s just nowhere for it to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a persistent and familiar challenge: what to do with water when there’s too much and how to manage when there isn’t enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are built for this,” said Jeffrey Mount, a water specialist at the Public Policy Institute of California. “We built the system around the notion that we get occasionally wet years and mostly dry years. But, unlike the Colorado River Basin, where they can capture and control four years of runoff, we are full after one year. Our ability to store surface water is limited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the nature of a semi-arid climate that we will see this whiplash — the three driest years on record and, if this year continues, we will get a year like 2017, the wettest on record. We have not figured out how to better take advantage of these wet years to get us through the dry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it takes decades to change traditional approaches to flood control, Mount said the current projects are a step in the right direction. “I see a lot of really good things coming out of this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will it be a drought-buster?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ongoing rains are already boosting California’s water storage system. Major reservoirs are rising, some rapidly. Folsom Lake was 29% full on Dec. 20, and as of Jan. 2 it jumped to 61%. The much larger Lake Oroville jumped from 29% to 38% in the same window — an increase of more than 300,000 acre-feet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the drought isn’t over yet and the West Coast remains dominated by a “weak to moderate” La Niña system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As recently as the fall, scientists predicted California was in for a fourth year of drought and predicted the rare occurrence of a third consecutive La Niña, the El Niño counterpart associated with dry Southern California weather and, generally, 50-50 odds of drought farther north.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abatzoglou of UC Merced said he suspects more rain will fall this month than fell from January through June last year. But he noted that recent forecasts for dry weather have not proven perfectly accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The snowpack covering California’s mountains is off to one of its best starts in 40 years, officials announced Tuesday, raising hopes that the drought-stricken state could soon see relief in the spring when the snow melts and begins to refill parched reservoirs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roughly a third of California’s water each year comes from melted snow in the Sierra Nevada, a mountain range that covers the eastern part of the state. The state has built a complex system of canals and dams to capture that water and store it in huge reservoirs so it can be used the rest of the year when it doesn’t rain or snow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UCB_CSSL/status/1609590448368275457\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is why officials closely monitor how deep the snow is in the mountains — and Tuesday was the first formal snow survey of the winter, a sort of Groundhog Day event where Californians get their first glimpse of how helpful the winter might be. Statewide, snowpack is at 174% of the historical average for this year, the third-best measurement in the past 40 years. Even more snow is expected later this week and over the weekend, giving officials hope for a wet winter the state so desperately needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a good start doesn’t guarantee a good finish. Last year, the statewide snowpack was at 160% of average at the first survey. What followed were the three driest months ever recorded in California. By April 1 — when the Sierra snowpack is supposed to be at its peak — the snow was just 38% of historic average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That history prompted muted optimism from state officials on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we see a terrific snowpack — and that in and of itself may be an opportunity to breathe a sigh of relief — we are by no means out of the woods when it comes to drought,” Karla Nemeth, director of the California Department of Water Resources, said Tuesday after a ceremonial snow measurement in the community of Phillips, just west of Lake Tahoe.[aside postID=\"news_11936674,news_1935067\"] This winter’s promising start was aided by a spate of strong storms last month, most notably on New Year’s Eve, when much of the state was drenched in heavy rain causing floods that killed one person and damaged a levee system in Sacramento County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That storm was warmer, so it brought more rain than snow. Two more powerful storms are expected to hit the state this week, and these will be much colder. The National Weather Service says the mountains could get up to 5 feet of snow between the two storms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the precipitation seemed out of character for the parched state, it reflects the type of rainfall the state would expect to see during a normal winter but that has been absent in recent drought-driven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Southern California, weather forecasters said “all systems go” for a major storm to sweep over the area Wednesday and Thursday, with peak intensity occurring from midnight to noon Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong winds will add to impressive storm dynamics “setting the stage for a massive rainfall event” across south-facing coastal mountains, especially the Santa Ynez range in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, forecasters said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could cause dangerous conditions. On Jan. 9, 2018, the community of Montecito in the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains was ravaged by a massive debris flow that killed 23 people when a downpour fell on a fresh wildfire burn scar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The storms in California still aren’t enough to officially end the drought, now entering its fourth year. The U.S. Drought Monitor showed that most of the state is in severe to extreme drought. Most of the state’s reservoirs are still well below their capacity, with Lake Shasta 34% full and Lake Oroville just 38% full. It takes even longer for underground aquifers to refill, with groundwater providing about 38% of the state’s water supply each year. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jeanine Jones, drought manager, California Department of Water Resources\"]‘We know that it’ll take quite a bit of time and water to recover this amount of storage, which is why we don’t say that the drought is over once it starts raining.’[/pullquote]“We know that it’ll take quite a bit of time and water to recover this amount of storage, which is why we don’t say that the drought is over once it starts raining,” said Jeanine Jones, drought manager for the California Department of Water Resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But back-to-back-to-back powerful storms have left many Californians preparing for the worst. In San Francisco, crews were rushing to clear trash, leaves and silt that clogged some of the city’s 25,000 storm drains during Saturday’s downpour before the next storm hits later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service is predicting up to 6 inches of rain in San Francisco with wind speeds of up to 30 mph with gusts of 60 mph.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor London Breed said city workers may not have enough time to clean all the storm drains before Wednesday and asked the public to prepare by getting sandbags to prevent flooding, avoiding unnecessary travel and only calling 911 in a life-or-death emergency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials had distributed 8,500 sandbags as of Tuesday, asking residents only to get them if they have experienced flooding in the past. Tink Troy, who lives in South San Francisco, picked up some sandbags from the city’s public works department on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said [Saturday’s storm] was going to be bad, and it was really bad. Now they’re saying this one’s going to be worse. So I want to make sure I’m prepared and not having to do this when it’s pouring rain tomorrow,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press reporters John Antczak contributed from Los Angeles. AP writers Olga Rodriguez and Haven Daley contributed from San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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