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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he full story of what happened at Oroville Dam this February has hardly begun to be told. How and why the dam’s main spillway failed, whether state and federal officials and independent consultants were complacent about the potential dangers of an emergency spillway system that proved to be vulnerable to erosion, whether the episode reveals wider inspection and oversight problems at dams throughout the state — the digging into all those questions and many more will be going on for a while.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What we know now, a month after workers discovered a huge hole had opened up in the main spillway just as managers needed to ramp up releases to accommodate a torrent of storm-fed runoff, is that we’ve witnessed an epic spectacle of destruction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/flowinguphill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Someone\u003c/a> out in the Twitterverse quoted a poem to me after looking at some images of the spillway, the obliteration of which was only fully visible Monday after the Department of Water Resources halted flows down the broken structure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The poem is “\u003ca href=\"https://www.poetryfoundation.org/resources/learning/core-poems/detail/46565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ozymandias\u003c/a>,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, a brief reflection on the human delusion of omnipotence and immortality. Here’s the text:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>I met a traveller from an antique land\u003cbr>\nWho said: ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone\u003cbr>\nStand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,\u003cbr>\nHalf sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,\u003cbr>\nAnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,\u003cbr>\nTell that its sculptor well those passions read\u003cbr>\nWhich yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,\u003cbr>\nThe hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:\u003cbr>\nAnd on the pedestal these words appear:\u003cbr>\n‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:\u003cbr>\nLook on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’\u003cbr>\nNothing beside remains. Round the decay\u003cbr>\nOf that colossal wreck, boundless and bare\u003cbr>\nThe lone and level sands stretch far away.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>No, I wouldn’t call Oroville Dam “a colossal wreck.” But I can’t help but be impressed by how quickly an unexpected event featuring nature and a key piece of infrastructure can puncture our illusion of control.\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\nBelow:\u003c/strong> \u003cem>A Department of Water Resources gallery of photographs taken between Feb. 27 and March 6, 2017, showing Oroville Dam’s main spillway before and after flows were halted, the work to assess the structure and crews clearing debris from the river channel Click on an image to open the collection as a slideshow.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[gallery type=\"square\" columns=\"1\" size=\"large\" ids=\"11338065,11338063,11338054,11338060,11338055,11338487,11338489,11338488,11338064,11338482,11338484,11338485,11338483,11338058,11338490,11339745,11339743,11339740,11339744,11339741,11343046,11343050,11343042,11343048,11343044,11343045,11343043,1347669,11347670,11347671,11347672,11347674,11347675,11347676,11347677,11347678,11347669\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ive months after dozens of Vallejo residents sought medical treatment after being overpowered by an unbearable odor that spread over their community, a collection of federal, state and local agencies have failed to follow up on the cause or have declined to release results of their investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fumes prompted about 800 phone calls to authorities, who imposed a shelter-in-place order covering much of the city of 118,000. The onset of the sickening odor appears to have coincided with a petroleum spill at the Phillips 66 refinery the same evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The noxious smell dissipated within a few hours. By then, local, regional, state and federal agencies had been alerted and said they were trying to pinpoint the source and composition of the fumes -- both of which remain unconfirmed today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"ZB8Pth0HV2bnjkBQ2TZhLuNCenbEg1ig\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Vallejo, which told residents several times that its Fire Department was investigating the odor, never actually launched a probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Air Quality Management District, whose job it is to regulate sources of air pollution, said it investigated the odor. But the agency never compiled a report on its source, and its staff says they never even made written notes about the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Coast Guard announced in October that it had determined that crude oil detected in the waters of San Pablo Bay came from either a marine terminal at the Phillips 66 refinery in Rodeo or a tanker that was unloading there. The agency has yet to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for documents on the incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife Office of Spill Prevention and Response says it has completed an investigation but is refusing to release its results. It also says it did not focus on finding the cause of the odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overpowering Odor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overpowering odor was first reported at 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 20, according to Joanna Altman, an assistant to Vallejo's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few hours residents complained to city officials that the odor, whatever its source, was causing headaches, sore throats, burning eyes, chest pain and nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Carle, who lives near the Carquinez Strait, was one of the residents sickened by the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden the air that was coming through windows was just about toxic,” Carle said. “I could feel that I was starting to get very congested in my lungs, which is not normal, and my head just started pounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the Baylink ferry Intintoli was sailing through waters near Vallejo and the Rodeo refinery when the crew reported \"a very pungent odor ... like bunker fuel.\" The report, recorded at 8 p.m. by the federal National Response Center, described the odor as \"unbearable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an \"unknown odor,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642658872569838\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo issued a shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> in the southern part of town, advising residents to stay indoors, turn off air-conditioning units and close windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642665665902492\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the order\u003c/a>, advising all residents to stay indoors \"until the source is determined.\" The city said that PG&E and public safety officials were working to determine the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two hours after the odor was first reported, city officials were told that Phillips 66 had shut down some of its operations but were not told why, Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:43 p.m., the city produced a video (below) in which Altman said emergency dispatchers had received 800 calls about the problem and that some residents were going to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JmUFScfqC_4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, the city sent out another message: \"Given the direction of the winds and investigation, it is likely that the source is not from Vallejo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following morning the shelter-in-place order was lifted and natural gas was eliminated as the source by hazardous materials crews, the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Fire Department will continue to investigate the root cause,\" said a reverse 911 call to residents, as well as two city of Vallejo press releases that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it appears the Fire Department investigation never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have very limited authority to investigate outside the boundaries of Vallejo and we have really very little ability to investigate this kind of thing,\" Fire Chief Jack McArthur said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Phillips 66 reopened its marine terminal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/phillips-66-refinery-in-rodeo-reopens-marine-terminal-as-oil-spill-investigation-continues/\" target=\"_blank\">the oil tanker tied to the spill\u003c/a> was allowed to leave San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Fails to Buy Promised Air-Monitoring Gear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after the apparent spill and resulting fumes, Chief McArthur, Mayor Bob Sampayan and City Manager Daniel Keen all told KQED that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">they wanted new air monitors\u003c/a> because the ones the city does have did not detect anything the night of the odor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan went further. He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/19/new-vallejo-mayor-wants-oil-industry-to-pay-for-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">called on the oil industry to pay for new monitors\u003c/a> in Vallejo and communities near the four major oil refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after the mysterious odor, the city has yet to buy new devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have identified the equipment we think will be most useful, but have not yet purchased it,\" Keen said in a recent email. \"This will be part of budget discussions we'll be having with the City Council shortly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still carrying this as a priority project,\" Sampayan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it was just recently that -- for the first time since the odor -- Vallejo city officials met with Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff to discuss the September mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Regulators: No Documentation on Vallejo Incident \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says it completed its investigation into the noxious fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air District reached the same conclusions as the lead agency (U.S. Coast Guard),\" district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said in a recent email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies were unable to determine the exact cause of the spill. In addition there was no conclusive determination for the cause of the odor in Vallejo,\" Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED requested a copy of the air district's report about the odor. But no report was ever written, Borrmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We only write a report when a violation of a district regulation is documented,\" Borrmann said. \"In this case there were no violations.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED then requested copies of all documents and email correspondence related to the air district's work on the odor and spill. But no such materials exist, district officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I have spoken to our enforcement staff, and there are no documents or emails,\" wrote Rochelle Reed, an employee at the air district's public records office, in an email. \"The air district had a minor role, and staff consulted by phone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Coast Guard Investigation\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district is not the only agency that has failed to produce evidence of its inquiry into the Phillips 66 oil spill that apparently led to the Vallejo incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Coast Guard seeking documentation of its spill investigation beyond the summary it offered in an October press release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The release said the agency's inquiry determined both Phillips 66 and Teekay Shipping, the owner of the oil tanker Yamuna Spirit, were responsible for the spill. 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It also says it did not focus on finding the cause of the odor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/309997283'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Overpowering Odor\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overpowering odor was first reported at 7:15 p.m. on Sept. 20, according to Joanna Altman, an assistant to Vallejo's city manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few hours residents complained to city officials that the odor, whatever its source, was causing headaches, sore throats, burning eyes, chest pain and nausea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Carle, who lives near the Carquinez Strait, was one of the residents sickened by the smell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden the air that was coming through windows was just about toxic,” Carle said. “I could feel that I was starting to get very congested in my lungs, which is not normal, and my head just started pounding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crew of the Baylink ferry Intintoli was sailing through waters near Vallejo and the Rodeo refinery when the crew reported \"a very pungent odor ... like bunker fuel.\" The report, recorded at 8 p.m. by the federal National Response Center, described the odor as \"unbearable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing an \"unknown odor,\" \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642658872569838\" target=\"_blank\">Vallejo issued a shelter-in-place order\u003c/a> in the southern part of town, advising residents to stay indoors, turn off air-conditioning units and close windows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city quickly \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cityofvallejo/posts/642665665902492\" target=\"_blank\">expanded the order\u003c/a>, advising all residents to stay indoors \"until the source is determined.\" The city said that PG&E and public safety officials were working to determine the cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the two hours after the odor was first reported, city officials were told that Phillips 66 had shut down some of its operations but were not told why, Altman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 9:43 p.m., the city produced a video (below) in which Altman said emergency dispatchers had received 800 calls about the problem and that some residents were going to the hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/JmUFScfqC_4\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before midnight, the city sent out another message: \"Given the direction of the winds and investigation, it is likely that the source is not from Vallejo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The following morning the shelter-in-place order was lifted and natural gas was eliminated as the source by hazardous materials crews, the city said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Fire Department will continue to investigate the root cause,\" said a reverse 911 call to residents, as well as two city of Vallejo press releases that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it appears the Fire Department investigation never materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have very limited authority to investigate outside the boundaries of Vallejo and we have really very little ability to investigate this kind of thing,\" Fire Chief Jack McArthur said in an interview.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week later, Phillips 66 reopened its marine terminal and \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/09/28/phillips-66-refinery-in-rodeo-reopens-marine-terminal-as-oil-spill-investigation-continues/\" target=\"_blank\">the oil tanker tied to the spill\u003c/a> was allowed to leave San Pablo Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>City Fails to Buy Promised Air-Monitoring Gear\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months after the apparent spill and resulting fumes, Chief McArthur, Mayor Bob Sampayan and City Manager Daniel Keen all told KQED that \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/02/oil-spill-sickening-odor-prompt-vallejo-to-consider-buying-new-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">they wanted new air monitors\u003c/a> because the ones the city does have did not detect anything the night of the odor incident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sampayan went further. He \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/12/19/new-vallejo-mayor-wants-oil-industry-to-pay-for-air-monitors/\" target=\"_blank\">called on the oil industry to pay for new monitors\u003c/a> in Vallejo and communities near the four major oil refineries in Contra Costa and Solano counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five months after the mysterious odor, the city has yet to buy new devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have identified the equipment we think will be most useful, but have not yet purchased it,\" Keen said in a recent email. \"This will be part of budget discussions we'll be having with the City Council shortly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm still carrying this as a priority project,\" Sampayan said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, it was just recently that -- for the first time since the odor -- Vallejo city officials met with Bay Area Air Quality Management District staff to discuss the September mystery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Air Regulators: No Documentation on Vallejo Incident \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The air district says it completed its investigation into the noxious fumes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Air District reached the same conclusions as the lead agency (U.S. Coast Guard),\" district spokesman Ralph Borrmann said in a recent email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies were unable to determine the exact cause of the spill. 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"content": "\u003cp>Mushroom foragers are having a heyday this winter. All over the Bay Area they’re bringing home soggy buckets and heavy bags brimming with edible varieties, whether for themselves, restaurants, or farmers markets. After four years of drought, the moisture, temperature and light are finally ideal for fungi to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Warning: Mushrooms Can Be Deadly\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The death cap mushroom kills and poisons more people every year than any other mushroom. This year the California Poison Control System received a record number of calls in December from foragers who accidentally consumed the toxic variety. \u003cstrong>Watch \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b\"> to learn more.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Ahhh… chanterelle!” enthusiastically exclaims Brennan Wenck-Reilly, the president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco, who was foraging in a lush forest near Pacifica. He’s uncovered a squash-colored trumpet mushroom underneath a layer of saturated leaves. He wipes off the gill-like ridges and sniffs for the characteristic nutty aroma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenck says this year’s bounty is outstanding even for a wet winter. “On a scale of one to ten I’d probably give it like a 12.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of chanterelles collected along the northern California coast. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pile of chanterelles collected along the northern California coast. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent hunt in Mendocino County, Wenck says foragers simply stopped picking because the abundance was staggering. “If you really wanted to, you could have collected hundreds of pounds of this \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/coccora.html\">cocora\u003c/a> that was just coming up everywhere,” says Wenck. Coccora is one of northern California’s most prized varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Every Mushroom Is Created Equal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But foragers have to be careful, Wenck warns. He points to an egg-shaped white mushroom lurking behind the trunk of a large tree. The small fungi looks harmless, but it’s a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death cap\u003c/a>\u003cb>, \u003c/b>easy to confuse with other wild varieties like coccora, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_mushroom\">caesar’s mushroom\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvariella_volvacea\">straw mushroom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘On a scale of one to ten I’d probably give it like a 12.’ \u003ccite>Brennan Wenck-Reilly, Mycological Society of San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Poison Control System received a record number of calls from people who got sick from eating wild mushrooms in December — although no one who ate them died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though fungi are prolific this season, there are some species foragers haven’t seen at all — even with the rain. Mycologists aren’t sure why some mushrooms produced copious fruiting bodies this winter and others lay dormant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know a lot about the ecology of mushrooms in general, hence we don’t even know how to get a lot of them to produce fruiting bodies for commercial production,” says Wenck. “Some mushrooms, like white buttons, are really easy to cultivate, but most mushrooms are really cryptic in what gets them to actually grow. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1425934 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601.jpg\" alt=\"An inedible rosy russula in Redwood Regional Park. \" width=\"710\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-240x204.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-375x319.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-520x442.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inedible rosy russula in Redwood Regional Park. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Mystery of Mushrooms\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to study fungi because most of the kingdom is actually invisible to us. The cap, or fruiting body, so easy to see on the forest floor is only the tip of a much bigger main organism called \u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mycelium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mycelium \u003c/a>— the root-like, feathery tendrils that thread underground, deriving nourishment from the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact the largest organism on the planet is thought to be a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141114-the-biggest-organism-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humungous fungus\u003c/a> spreading for miles underground in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if a mushroom doesn’t produce a fruiting body above ground, scientists have to search hard to find suspected fungi by taking soil samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a biologist walks out in the woods they’re going to see virtually all of the plants species,” says San Francisco State University mycologist J.R. Blair. “If you go out during all seasons you’re going to see all the bird species in a certain area too. But if the mushrooms don’t produce fruiting bodies you’re not going to know that they’re there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mystery of mushroom ecology and the unpredictability of mushroom caps is part of what hooks foragers, but they’re not the only ones fascinated by fungi. Mushrooms are increasingly popular with foodies as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Maitake mushroom surrounded by King Trumpet and button mushrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-520x348.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maitake mushroom surrounded by King Trumpet and button mushrooms. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mushroom Demand Skyrockets\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for commercially cultivated mushrooms has been spiking in recent years, with U.S. farms producing 25 percent more mushrooms today than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest mushroom farm in North America is just south of Santa Cruz. \u003ca href=\"http://www.montereymushrooms.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monterey Mushrooms\u003c/a> produces about 120,000 pounds of mushrooms daily, most of it is just one species — Agaricus bisporus, grown a few different ways. Most common is the white button. A cremini is the brown version. A portabello is the mature version. Portabellos boast the richest flavor because they have the least water content, leading to a more profuse mushroom flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fruiting bodies grow at the rate of about an inch and a half a day. “They’re actually growing right in front of your eyes,” says Monterey Mushroom employee Matt Fuller as he swings opens the door to a dimly lit room inside a humid barn. Stacks of layered planter boxes brim with portobello caps from floor to ceiling. But Fuller says the mushrooms are actually not growing fast enough to keep up with increasing demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medicinal Value\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mushroom Council, an industry group, credits the demand to consumers looking for nutrient rich alternatives to meat. But it’s not just the chewy texture of mushrooms that’s appealing; they’re also marketed as a superfood, and the trend has some research behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1426048\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 274px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1426048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016.jpg\" alt=\"The nutritional value of five white button mushrooms. \" width=\"274\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016.jpg 274w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016-160x303.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016-240x455.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nutritional value of five white button mushrooms. \u003ccite>(Mushroom Council )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.christopherhobbs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Hobbs\u003c/a> says mushrooms are a nutritional powerhouse. Hobbs is also an herbalist and the author of the book \u003cem>Medicinal Mushrooms\u003c/em>. “Three oyster mushroom fruiting bodies would be comparable to a half cup of greens that are cooked and two eggs, for instance,” says Hobbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3595?manu=&fgcd=&ds=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Department of Agruiculture (USDA)\u003c/a> says fungi are low in fat, sodium and cholesterol. Plus they contain protein, vitamins and trace minerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic researchers in both the U.S. and abroad are \u003ca href=\"http://m.mushroominfo.com/research/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studying\u003c/a> whether mushrooms can boost the immune system to fight allergies and viruses. Currently most of the science is preliminary, though Asian cultures have used mushrooms as medicine for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oyster mushrooms and the shiitake are well-known to decrease cholesterol levels and also stabilize blood sugar levels,” says Hobbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"XXX sold by Farwest Fungi in San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow oyster mushrooms sold by Farwest Fungi in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20196600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers\u003c/a> in Korea found that a mushroom extract reduced blood sugar in diabetic rats as effectively as the standard diabetes drug, metformin. More human trials are needed to confirm the research results found in animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western practitioners are beginning to follow the example of Japanese and Chinese doctors who use medicinal mushrooms in standard cancer treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF oncologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/donald.abrams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Donald I. Abrams\u003c/a> recommends mushroom extracts to his patients to boost their immune response, complement chemotherapy or help with treatment side affects. 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I’m trying to present and assimilate the data for patients or practitioners who are interested in the research available on mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abram says more research is necessary to conclude how mushrooms can fight cancer. “Yet, my patients don’t necessarily have time for the research to catch up, so I want to offer them something helpful that’s not likely harmful.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mushroom foragers are having a heyday this winter. All over the Bay Area they’re bringing home soggy buckets and heavy bags brimming with edible varieties, whether for themselves, restaurants, or farmers markets. After four years of drought, the moisture, temperature and light are finally ideal for fungi to thrive.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Warning: Mushrooms Can Be Deadly\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The death cap mushroom kills and poisons more people every year than any other mushroom. This year the California Poison Control System received a record number of calls in December from foragers who accidentally consumed the toxic variety. \u003cstrong>Watch \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this video\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b2b2b\"> to learn more.\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Ahhh… chanterelle!” enthusiastically exclaims Brennan Wenck-Reilly, the president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco, who was foraging in a lush forest near Pacifica. He’s uncovered a squash-colored trumpet mushroom underneath a layer of saturated leaves. He wipes off the gill-like ridges and sniffs for the characteristic nutty aroma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenck says this year’s bounty is outstanding even for a wet winter. “On a scale of one to ten I’d probably give it like a 12.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425933\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A pile of chanterelles collected along the northern California coast. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/chanterrelle-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pile of chanterelles collected along the northern California coast. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a recent hunt in Mendocino County, Wenck says foragers simply stopped picking because the abundance was staggering. “If you really wanted to, you could have collected hundreds of pounds of this \u003ca href=\"http://www.bayareamushrooms.org/mushroommonth/coccora.html\">cocora\u003c/a> that was just coming up everywhere,” says Wenck. Coccora is one of northern California’s most prized varieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Not Every Mushroom Is Created Equal\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But foragers have to be careful, Wenck warns. He points to an egg-shaped white mushroom lurking behind the trunk of a large tree. The small fungi looks harmless, but it’s a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/02/23/this-mushroom-starts-killing-you-before-you-even-realize-it/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death cap\u003c/a>\u003cb>, \u003c/b>easy to confuse with other wild varieties like coccora, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar%27s_mushroom\">caesar’s mushroom\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvariella_volvacea\">straw mushroom\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘On a scale of one to ten I’d probably give it like a 12.’ \u003ccite>Brennan Wenck-Reilly, Mycological Society of San Francisco\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The California Poison Control System received a record number of calls from people who got sick from eating wild mushrooms in December — although no one who ate them died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though fungi are prolific this season, there are some species foragers haven’t seen at all — even with the rain. Mycologists aren’t sure why some mushrooms produced copious fruiting bodies this winter and others lay dormant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t know a lot about the ecology of mushrooms in general, hence we don’t even know how to get a lot of them to produce fruiting bodies for commercial production,” says Wenck. “Some mushrooms, like white buttons, are really easy to cultivate, but most mushrooms are really cryptic in what gets them to actually grow. ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 710px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1425934 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601.jpg\" alt=\"An inedible rosy russula in Redwood Regional Park. \" width=\"710\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601.jpg 710w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-160x136.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-240x204.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-375x319.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/rosy-rusula-e1487800779601-520x442.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An inedible rosy russula in Redwood Regional Park. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Mystery of Mushrooms\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s difficult to study fungi because most of the kingdom is actually invisible to us. The cap, or fruiting body, so easy to see on the forest floor is only the tip of a much bigger main organism called \u003ca href=\"https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mycelium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mycelium \u003c/a>— the root-like, feathery tendrils that thread underground, deriving nourishment from the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact the largest organism on the planet is thought to be a \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141114-the-biggest-organism-in-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humungous fungus\u003c/a> spreading for miles underground in the Blue Mountains of Oregon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if a mushroom doesn’t produce a fruiting body above ground, scientists have to search hard to find suspected fungi by taking soil samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a biologist walks out in the woods they’re going to see virtually all of the plants species,” says San Francisco State University mycologist J.R. Blair. “If you go out during all seasons you’re going to see all the bird species in a certain area too. But if the mushrooms don’t produce fruiting bodies you’re not going to know that they’re there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mystery of mushroom ecology and the unpredictability of mushroom caps is part of what hooks foragers, but they’re not the only ones fascinated by fungi. Mushrooms are increasingly popular with foodies as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-800x535.jpg\" alt=\"Maitake mushroom surrounded by King Trumpet and button mushrooms. \" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-800x535.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-768x514.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-960x642.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-240x161.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-375x251.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1-520x348.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/mushroom-gravy1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maitake mushroom surrounded by King Trumpet and button mushrooms. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mushroom Demand Skyrockets\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Demand for commercially cultivated mushrooms has been spiking in recent years, with U.S. farms producing 25 percent more mushrooms today than a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The largest mushroom farm in North America is just south of Santa Cruz. \u003ca href=\"http://www.montereymushrooms.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monterey Mushrooms\u003c/a> produces about 120,000 pounds of mushrooms daily, most of it is just one species — Agaricus bisporus, grown a few different ways. Most common is the white button. A cremini is the brown version. A portabello is the mature version. Portabellos boast the richest flavor because they have the least water content, leading to a more profuse mushroom flavor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fruiting bodies grow at the rate of about an inch and a half a day. “They’re actually growing right in front of your eyes,” says Monterey Mushroom employee Matt Fuller as he swings opens the door to a dimly lit room inside a humid barn. Stacks of layered planter boxes brim with portobello caps from floor to ceiling. But Fuller says the mushrooms are actually not growing fast enough to keep up with increasing demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Medicinal Value\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mushroom Council, an industry group, credits the demand to consumers looking for nutrient rich alternatives to meat. But it’s not just the chewy texture of mushrooms that’s appealing; they’re also marketed as a superfood, and the trend has some research behind it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1426048\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 274px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1426048\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016.jpg\" alt=\"The nutritional value of five white button mushrooms. \" width=\"274\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016.jpg 274w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016-160x303.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Mushroom-Nutrition-Facts2016-240x455.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 274px) 100vw, 274px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nutritional value of five white button mushrooms. \u003ccite>(Mushroom Council )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biologist \u003ca href=\"http://www.christopherhobbs.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christopher Hobbs\u003c/a> says mushrooms are a nutritional powerhouse. Hobbs is also an herbalist and the author of the book \u003cem>Medicinal Mushrooms\u003c/em>. “Three oyster mushroom fruiting bodies would be comparable to a half cup of greens that are cooked and two eggs, for instance,” says Hobbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/3595?manu=&fgcd=&ds=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Department of Agruiculture (USDA)\u003c/a> says fungi are low in fat, sodium and cholesterol. Plus they contain protein, vitamins and trace minerals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Academic researchers in both the U.S. and abroad are \u003ca href=\"http://m.mushroominfo.com/research/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">studying\u003c/a> whether mushrooms can boost the immune system to fight allergies and viruses. Currently most of the science is preliminary, though Asian cultures have used mushrooms as medicine for centuries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The oyster mushrooms and the shiitake are well-known to decrease cholesterol levels and also stabilize blood sugar levels,” says Hobbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1425937\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1425937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"XXX sold by Farwest Fungi in San Francisco. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/yellow-mushroom-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yellow oyster mushrooms sold by Farwest Fungi in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Lesley McClurg/ KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20196600\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">researchers\u003c/a> in Korea found that a mushroom extract reduced blood sugar in diabetic rats as effectively as the standard diabetes drug, metformin. More human trials are needed to confirm the research results found in animals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Western practitioners are beginning to follow the example of Japanese and Chinese doctors who use medicinal mushrooms in standard cancer treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF oncologist \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsfhealth.org/donald.abrams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dr. Donald I. Abrams\u003c/a> recommends mushroom extracts to his patients to boost their immune response, complement chemotherapy or help with treatment side affects. He says each species has different health benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For example, I recommended \u003ca href=\"http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-602-cordyceps.aspx?activeingredientid=602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cordyceps\u003c/a> to a recent patient who was concerned with his libido,” says Abrams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams is helping the National Cancer Institute compile a detailed review of all the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/mushrooms-pdq#link/_97_toc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animal \u003c/a>and human \u003ca href=\"https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/mushrooms-pdq#link/_77_toc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clinical trials\u003c/a> on mushrooms used to treat cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most studies to date have been done in China,” says Abrams. “But we are quite American-centric and so anything done in another country tends to get discounted. I’m trying to present and assimilate the data for patients or practitioners who are interested in the research available on mushrooms.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many Californians are still in disbelief that after five years of too little water during the drought, now the problem is too much water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy winter storms have done more than cause problems at Oroville Dam, where thousands of people were evacuated after erosion of a critical spillway. They’ve also stressed thousands of miles of levees and flood infrastructure downstream of the major dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say it’s a wake-up call because the state’s warming climate could mean more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downstream Stress\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With rivers running high, levee patrols have been on high alert for any sign of damage. Earlier this month, 60 feet of levee collapsed on Tyler Island, near the town of Walnut Grove in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our water system was really built in an old climate. It’s a climate that is no longer the climate of California.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A huge crane was brought in to dump rocks in the gash, in the hope of preventing the river from breaking through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every hour we work, we’re safer,” said Mello, a farmer on the island who anxiously watched every rock load. “We’re not out of the woods yet by a long shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby farms and homes would be underwater without the levee, as the island sits 17 feet below sea level at its lowest point. Mello watched the levee disintegrate in just 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s ‘New Climate’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford University. “It’s actually exactly what’s been predicted by scientists for at least 30 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1431485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1020x614.jpg\" alt=\"California's backlog of levee maintenance runs hundreds of millions of dollars. \" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1180x710.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-960x578.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-375x226.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-520x313.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s backlog of levee maintenance runs hundreds of millions of dollars. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diffenbaugh says while drought and floods aren’t new for California, climate change could make them both more extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s hot out, water is going to evaporate,” said Diffenbaugh. “And that’s what happens with soils. We’re getting more frequent occurrences of low precipitation leading to drought because the temperatures are higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During wet years, warmer temperatures will cause more precipitation to fall as rain instead of snow. The snowpack is also showing signs of melting earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contrary, California’s water system was designed a century ago, around having a predictable snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which acts like frozen reservoir, storing water until the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”1Ml3NikETEPKAYD1HkA1KCiMZpc4D7eJ”]California’s flood system can handle that slow melt, but isn’t really equipped for a huge amount of runoff all at once, Diffenbaugh says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our water system was really built in an old climate,” he says. “It’s a climate that is no longer the climate of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating Infrastructure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s dams have struggled to handle the influx of winter rain, some are calling for more water storage projects to be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly our water model isn’t working,” reads a \u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/opinion/editorials/article133907709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent editorial in the Modesto Bee\u003c/a>. “We need more dams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if dams are big enough to capture flood events, the channels below the dams may not be able to handle higher flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spillway on Don Pedro Dam near Modesto \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/17/another-california-dam-grapples-with-flood-danger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was opened \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/17/another-california-dam-grapples-with-flood-danger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently \u003c/a> for the first time in 20 years, to prevent the reservoir from overflowing. But the amount of water operators could release has been limited by the capacity of the river channel below it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1431486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1020x583.jpg\" alt=\"A dredge drops rock on Tyler Island.\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1020x583.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-768x439.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1180x675.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-960x549.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-520x297.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dredge drops rock on the Tyler Island levee. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This flood here has really tested us,” said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. “We’ve found we have quite a bit of levees to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams also aren’t the only option for storing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest source of water storage in California is groundwater and it always will be,” says Lund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been experimenting with diverting floodwater onto fields, where it can seep into aquifers that were drawn down dramatically during the recent drought. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Many Californians are still in disbelief that after five years of too little water during the drought, now the problem is too much water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy winter storms have done more than cause problems at Oroville Dam, where thousands of people were evacuated after erosion of a critical spillway. They’ve also stressed thousands of miles of levees and flood infrastructure downstream of the major dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some say it’s a wake-up call because the state’s warming climate could mean more of the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Downstream Stress\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With rivers running high, levee patrols have been on high alert for any sign of damage. Earlier this month, 60 feet of levee collapsed on Tyler Island, near the town of Walnut Grove in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘Our water system was really built in an old climate. It’s a climate that is no longer the climate of California.’\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Noah Diffenbaugh, Stanford University\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>A huge crane was brought in to dump rocks in the gash, in the hope of preventing the river from breaking through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every hour we work, we’re safer,” said Mello, a farmer on the island who anxiously watched every rock load. “We’re not out of the woods yet by a long shot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearby farms and homes would be underwater without the levee, as the island sits 17 feet below sea level at its lowest point. Mello watched the levee disintegrate in just 15 minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>California’s ‘New Climate’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This shouldn’t be a surprise,” says Noah Diffenbaugh, climate scientist at Stanford University. “It’s actually exactly what’s been predicted by scientists for at least 30 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431485\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1431485\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1020x614.jpg\" alt=\"California's backlog of levee maintenance runs hundreds of millions of dollars. \" width=\"640\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-1180x710.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-960x578.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-240x144.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-375x226.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee2-web-520x313.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California’s backlog of levee maintenance runs hundreds of millions of dollars. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Diffenbaugh says while drought and floods aren’t new for California, climate change could make them both more extreme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it’s hot out, water is going to evaporate,” said Diffenbaugh. “And that’s what happens with soils. We’re getting more frequent occurrences of low precipitation leading to drought because the temperatures are higher.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During wet years, warmer temperatures will cause more precipitation to fall as rain instead of snow. The snowpack is also showing signs of melting earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the contrary, California’s water system was designed a century ago, around having a predictable snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, which acts like frozen reservoir, storing water until the spring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>California’s flood system can handle that slow melt, but isn’t really equipped for a huge amount of runoff all at once, Diffenbaugh says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our water system was really built in an old climate,” he says. “It’s a climate that is no longer the climate of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updating Infrastructure\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As California’s dams have struggled to handle the influx of winter rain, some are calling for more water storage projects to be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly our water model isn’t working,” reads a \u003ca href=\"http://www.modbee.com/opinion/editorials/article133907709.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent editorial in the Modesto Bee\u003c/a>. “We need more dams.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if dams are big enough to capture flood events, the channels below the dams may not be able to handle higher flows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spillway on Don Pedro Dam near Modesto \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/17/another-california-dam-grapples-with-flood-danger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was opened \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2017/02/17/another-california-dam-grapples-with-flood-danger/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently \u003c/a> for the first time in 20 years, to prevent the reservoir from overflowing. But the amount of water operators could release has been limited by the capacity of the river channel below it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1431486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1431486\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1020x583.jpg\" alt=\"A dredge drops rock on Tyler Island.\" width=\"640\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1020x583.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-160x92.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-800x458.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-768x439.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-1180x675.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-960x549.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-240x137.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-375x214.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/02/Levee3-web-520x297.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A dredge drops rock on the Tyler Island levee. \u003ccite>(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This flood here has really tested us,” said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. “We’ve found we have quite a bit of levees to work on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dams also aren’t the only option for storing water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest source of water storage in California is groundwater and it always will be,” says Lund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has been experimenting with diverting floodwater onto fields, where it can seep into aquifers that were drawn down dramatically during the recent drought. That could potentially allow reservoirs to leave more room in the winter to catch extreme runoff events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re able to move some of the storage to aquifers,” says Lund, “that should free up more storage in the reservoirs to capture that now bigger annual cycle of wet months.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge for improving California’s flood readiness has long been funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has identified \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/main/blog_detail.asp?i=2232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">billions of dollars of flood control projects\u003c/a> and levee maintenance that’s needed, as part of its Central Valley Flood Protection Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the big holes in our water system is that we don’t have very good regular funding for flood control,” notes Lund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, Gov. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles, residential streets dead-end at oil refineries. Diesel trucks crawl through, carrying containers from nearby ports. Longtime resident Magali Sanchez Hall says the pollution from all that \u003ca href=\"http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/02/02/68616/is-california-climate-law-worsening-pollution-in-c/\">has taken a toll\u003c/a>, right on the street where she lives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people that live here, the mother died of cancer,” she says, pointing to a modest one-story home. “The people that live here, three people died of cancer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s own research finds people in Wilmington are about twice as likely to get cancer as the average person in greater Los Angeles. That’s mostly due to diesel fumes, but also the toxic chemicals that mix with the greenhouse gas emissions of refineries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez Hall wipes her finger across the hood of a car and holds it up. “Black dust,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”O2acFWnir4mdzUZBjXuzRErsmrU7ZwAq”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Given all this, you might think Sanchez Hall would be excited about California’s so-called cap-and-trade program, which aims to get polluting companies, like the refineries here, to reduce emissions. But she and others say the state’s signature climate change program is failing them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first heard about cap and trade, I couldn’t conceive how pollution had become a commodity to profit from,” says Alicia Rivera of Communities for a Better Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program, California sets an overall cap on carbon emissions. In order to meet it, companies have three choices: cut their emissions directly; buy and sell permits that allow them to keep emitting; or make up for their emissions by reducing emissions somewhere else. That last option is called an “offset,” and environmental justice activists like Rivera hate it the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t care if they have a project for tree planting elsewhere,” she says. “When are they going to reduce pollution here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study finds that emissions in places like Wilmington actually increased during the first two years of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s cap-and-trade system faces other challenges, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lawsuit-not-Trump-threatens-California-s-10631542.php\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> by the California Chamber of Commerce, which alleges the program is an illegal tax unless it garners two-thirds approval in the Legislature. Gov. Jerry Brown is urging lawmakers to give that approval, and extend cap and trade beyond 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”EOfUcfyunfr8WCwnoIoFzCTbD1QnOhid”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some lawmakers are sympathetic to the environmental justice position. And some advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/meetings/01182017/20170112ca_ej_declaration_on_carbon_pricing_reform.pdf\">recently declared\u003c/a> they will “fight at every turn” efforts to extend cap and trade, and push instead for something that guarantees direct emissions reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who run the cap-and-trade program say they are listening, and acting. “It’s probably premature to try to judge the program’s total effectiveness at this point because it hasn’t been in effect very long,” says Dave Clegern of the California Air Resources Board. But he says the board is proposing that refineries cut their emissions by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the state says it also wants to keep cap and trade, which a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3553\">legislative report \u003c/a>deemed the “likely most cost-effective” approach to reducing greenhouse gases. Clegern says auctioning off carbon credits also generates a lot of money, and by law, half of it must benefit people living in disadvantaged communities. “What we have basically is a balancing act,” he says, “where we need to be able to keep the economy alive, [and] keep public health improving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Air Resources Board will consider whether and how to amend its cap-and-trade program in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Wilmington, some are losing patience. Longtime resident Magali Sanchez Hall says the polluted air affects even her smallest daily decisions, like where to work out. “I try to come to exercise here at this park,” she says, driving down her street. “But it just feels weird to be exercising and breathing all this, you know? It’s just weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I first heard about cap and trade, I couldn’t conceive how pollution had become a commodity to profit from,” says Alicia Rivera of Communities for a Better Environment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the program, California sets an overall cap on carbon emissions. In order to meet it, companies have three choices: cut their emissions directly; buy and sell permits that allow them to keep emitting; or make up for their emissions by reducing emissions somewhere else. That last option is called an “offset,” and environmental justice activists like Rivera hate it the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t care if they have a project for tree planting elsewhere,” she says. “When are they going to reduce pollution here?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent study finds that emissions in places like Wilmington actually increased during the first two years of the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s cap-and-trade system faces other challenges, including \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Lawsuit-not-Trump-threatens-California-s-10631542.php\">a lawsuit\u003c/a> by the California Chamber of Commerce, which alleges the program is an illegal tax unless it garners two-thirds approval in the Legislature. Gov. Jerry Brown is urging lawmakers to give that approval, and extend cap and trade beyond 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some lawmakers are sympathetic to the environmental justice position. And some advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/ejac/meetings/01182017/20170112ca_ej_declaration_on_carbon_pricing_reform.pdf\">recently declared\u003c/a> they will “fight at every turn” efforts to extend cap and trade, and push instead for something that guarantees direct emissions reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who run the cap-and-trade program say they are listening, and acting. “It’s probably premature to try to judge the program’s total effectiveness at this point because it hasn’t been in effect very long,” says Dave Clegern of the California Air Resources Board. But he says the board is proposing that refineries cut their emissions by 20 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the state says it also wants to keep cap and trade, which a recent \u003ca href=\"http://www.lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3553\">legislative report \u003c/a>deemed the “likely most cost-effective” approach to reducing greenhouse gases. Clegern says auctioning off carbon credits also generates a lot of money, and by law, half of it must benefit people living in disadvantaged communities. “What we have basically is a balancing act,” he says, “where we need to be able to keep the economy alive, [and] keep public health improving.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s Air Resources Board will consider whether and how to amend its cap-and-trade program in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Wilmington, some are losing patience. Longtime resident Magali Sanchez Hall says the polluted air affects even her smallest daily decisions, like where to work out. “I try to come to exercise here at this park,” she says, driving down her street. “But it just feels weird to be exercising and breathing all this, you know? It’s just weird.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Copyright 2017 Southern California Public Radio. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"http://www.kpcc.org/\">Southern California Public Radio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Jerry Brown is calling on the state to \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/2.24.17_Finance_Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">invest more than $400 million\u003c/a> in flood control and emergency response. The governor's move on Friday comes after heavy storms damaged a spillway at \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/12/photos-oroville-dam-spillway-trouble-and-evacuation/\" target=\"_blank\">Oroville Dam\u003c/a> earlier this month, forcing the evacuation of more than 100,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of this fiscal year, $50 million for immediate flood prevention will be redirected to the general fund. Brown is also requesting the Legislature approve spending more than $380 million from the \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_1,_Water_Bond_(2014)\" target=\"_blank\">water bond\u003c/a> voters approved in 2014. That money would go to various flood control projects over the coming two fiscal years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown says, overall, California has $187 billion worth of infrastructure needs that it must start addressing right away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the roof is leaking, if you don’t fix it, it will cost more later. So yeah, it’s serious, but I wouldn’t panic,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11332277\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11332277\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"The damaged main Oroville Dam spillway next to the resultant severely eroded hillside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24249_Main_Rainbow-qut-800x600-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The damaged main Oroville Dam spillway next to the resultant severely eroded hillside. \u003ccite>(William Croyle/California Dept. of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Brown has \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/docs/2.24.17_Infrastructure_Letters.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter to President Trump\u003c/a> listing 10 high-priority infrastructure projects he hopes the White House can assist with. But Brown acknowledges the state's currently tense relationship with the administration presents some challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We have to, I think, walk a very thoughtful line here seeking help that we need, but also calling attention to those things that we object to and fighting vigorously when required,\" Brown said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California may have recently gotten a glimpse of what its contentious relationship with the federal government could cost the state. Last week, federal transportation officials said they're delaying a \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/17/feds-delay-caltrain-electrification-money/\" target=\"_blank\">$647 million grant\u003c/a> that would have helped electrify Caltrain between San Jose and San Francisco. Brown called the project a no-brainer and questioned the motives behind the delay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you're not for that, you're really not for infrastructure,\" he said. \"The only thing you can say for that is it's scoring political points by politicians that know better and should do better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to more spending for flood prevention, Brown also wants more detailed inspections of dam structures and legislation requiring emergency action plans for state-regulated dams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration's Department of Finance estimates that damages from storms throughout the state in January and February, including the Oroville Dam, will cost California more than $1 billion.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:55 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Most of the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes by flooding southeast of downtown San Jose have been allowed to go home, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city said Thursday morning that about 3,800 people from 1,100 residences are still under mandatory evacuation orders as crews work to pump water out of their inundated neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city announced that much of an area west and north of a mandatory evacuation zone north of Interstate 280 and west of U.S. 101 had escaped serious flooding, and residents there were allowed to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three areas remain evacuated — \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66354\" target=\"_blank\">see the city’s official map\u003c/a> — as authorities try to drain standing water left behind after Coyote Creek, swollen with floodwater spilling from Anderson Reservoir, overflowed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods include the neighborhood immediately surrounding William Street Park, just south of downtown; the Rock Springs area, where flooding first occurred Tuesday afternoon; and three mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road in north San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. Mitch Matlow said Tuesday afternoon. “In the history of San Jose, I don’t know if it’s been bigger, but this is probably in the top 10.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andy Seoung was among the residents rescued by fire crews. “At some parts of the street the water is as high as your waist, my waist,” Seoung said. “I’m 6 feet tall and my waist is about 30 inches off the ground.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said Tuesday that officials suspect a breach of the creek’s bank caused the rapid flooding in Rock Springs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly, there’s a source in the creek where there’s a significantly large amount of water that’s rushing in,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Peter Jon Shuler contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 9:55 a.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> Most of the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes by flooding southeast of downtown San Jose have been allowed to go home, city officials say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the city said Thursday morning that about 3,800 people from 1,100 residences are still under mandatory evacuation orders as crews work to pump water out of their inundated neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city announced that much of an area west and north of a mandatory evacuation zone north of Interstate 280 and west of U.S. 101 had escaped serious flooding, and residents there were allowed to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three areas remain evacuated — \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66354\" target=\"_blank\">see the city’s official map\u003c/a> — as authorities try to drain standing water left behind after Coyote Creek, swollen with floodwater spilling from Anderson Reservoir, overflowed on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those neighborhoods include the neighborhood immediately surrounding William Street Park, just south of downtown; the Rock Springs area, where flooding first occurred Tuesday afternoon; and three mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road in north San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the three areas still under mandatory evacuation orders, Rock Springs appeared to be the hardest hit. Floodwaters were the deepest there, and a sewage pumping station that serves the neighborhood was inundated and knocked out of service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials say they expect the bill for repairs to flooded property to be in the tens of millions of dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On KQED’s \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em> program Thursday morning, San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the city needs to work with the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which operates Anderson Reservoir, to find out why the available streamflow data for Coyote Creek failed to alert officials to the potential for widespread flooding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some technical issues that need to be resolved, and we need to figure quickly, because I know rains will continue this season,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jim Fiedler, the water district’s chief operating officer, also appeared on \u003cem>Forum\u003c/em>. He disputed suggestions that his agency was responsible for stream conditions near Rock Springs that some city officials have said may have contributed to flooding there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The particular stretch around one of those areas in question is property that’s not owned by the water district,” Fiedler said. “The area by Rock Springs in fact is owned by the city of San Jose. In fact, much of the stream land … unless there’s been improvements made over the years, are not owned by the district, so we don’t regularly maintain those.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 5:10 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> City officials say they’re going house to house in neighborhoods inundated by floodwaters late Tuesday and early Wednesday to assess the extent of damage and decide when residents can return home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fire Department and other city crews are also pumping water out of mobile home parks and other areas where water that surged outside the banks of Coyote Creek has not receded naturally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the city has issued \u003ca href=\"http://sanjoseca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/66339\" target=\"_blank\">a checklist\u003c/a> of procedures for residents when they return to flooded homes, officials still haven’t said when the 14,000 people forced to leave their homes will be able to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be people allowed to return tonight,” said Dave Sykes, director of the city’s emergency operations center. Those areas cleared for residents to return would be posted on the city’s website, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those evacuated were from three areas, the city said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Mobile home parks near Old Oakland Road: South Bay Mobile Home Park, Golden Wheel, and River Bend Mobile Home Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Neighborhoods near Williams Street Park\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Rock Springs neighborhood\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Assistant Fire Chief Robert Sapien said continuing concern about water that had been contaminated as it flowed the 30 miles from over-full Anderson Reservoir to San Francisco Bay was cited as the chief reason the mandatory evacuation order was still in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water between Anderson Lake to the end point of the bay in San Jose means it has traveled through every product source available between those two points,” Sapien said. “That includes vehicle fuels, oils, any homes that may have had pesticides, any sewage backups that may have occurred, anything that was in the creekways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sapien advised anyone who comes into contact with the water to wash thoroughly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other developments:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The city said it would maintain emergency shelters at Evergreen High School and James Lick High School. Two other shelters were closed because they were lightly used, officials said.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The San Jose Water Co., which provides drinking water to the inundated area, advised customers its supplies are uncontaminated and safe to consume.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The city of San Jose has established a fund to help those affected by the flood. Donations can be made through the San Jose mayor’s office — or \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjmayor.org\" target=\"_blank\">http://www.sjmayor.org\u003c/a> — or the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — or \u003ca href=\"https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.siliconvalleycf.org/sjflood\u003c/a>.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:20 p.m.:\u003c/strong> San Jose officials say residents forced to leave their homes late Tuesday and early Wednesday by inundation along Coyote Creek should not return immediately because of concern about contaminated floodwater.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water is not safe,” Mayor Sam Liccardo said during a media briefing Wednesday morning. “There is contamination in this water, and the contamination runs the gamut” from gasoline and oil to raw sewage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not safe for people to go into the water to go back to their homes,” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the city was looking at whether it had done enough to alert residents along the path of the creek, which overflowed because of flood releases from the Santa Clara County Water District’s Anderson Reservoir, that they might have to evacuate their homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the first time that a resident is aware that they need to get out of a home is when they see a firefighter in a boat, then clearly there’s been a failure,” Liccardo said. “We are assessing what it is that happened that led to that failure.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said about 400 residents had been rescued from their homes by emergency crews in boats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials expressed uncertainty about exactly why the flooding happened when and where it happened. From \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/02/22/san-jose-flood-update-mandatory-evacuations-expand-overnight-about-14000-affected/\" target=\"_blank\">the San Jose Mercury News account\u003c/a> of their remarks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Assistant City Manager Dave Sykes said the breach of the creek Tuesday morning in the Rock Springs neighborhood near Kelley Park “happened at a flow level much below the capacity of the channel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the issue we need to investigate,” Sykes said. “We were not anticipating flows to come out of the channel at that time. So we need to figure out what went on. Were there blockages? What were the issues that contributed to flows coming out of the channel at that point?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sykes later added: “We weren’t expecting to have issues at Rock Springs for many, many hours, and we certainly weren’t expecting Rock Springs to be the first place we had issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said “clearly there was a failure” leading to the unprecedented flooding that left some homes in nearly eight feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One failure, according to the mayor, is the city was told by the Santa Clara Valley Water District that the area wouldn’t flood unless water flow topped 7,400 cubic feet per second. But waters began creeping into neighborhoods well before that level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we’re learning is the data’s wrong and we need to understand why that is,” Liccardo told this news organization following a press conference Wednesday. “Obviously that’s something we need to undertake in partnership with other agencies that have the experts. We don’t have the hydrologists. They do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachael Gibson, the district’s emergency operations center spokeswoman, said that model was based on “best available data,” and hydrologists were analyzing flow rates Wednesday afternoon. They did not immediately know what rate was reached on Tuesday and Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson added that other factors are tough or impossible to predict, such as blockages in the creek that could affect capacity.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post:\u003c/strong> Thousands of San Jose residents and city officials are facing a massive cleanup after overnight flooding along Coyote Creek prompted emergency evacuations in neighborhoods along the stream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although waters were slowly receding by dawn Wednesday, flooding was still a concern.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although the rain has largely stopped, flooding is continuing along Coyote Creek as reservoirs continue to spill and creek flow is extremely high,” said Cheryl Wessling, a spokeswoman for the city’s Emergency Operations Center, in an email early Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those high flows, which flooded the Rock Springs neighborhood southeast of downtown Tuesday afternoon, led to a 12:15 a.m. evacuation order covering about 14,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city set up evacuation centers at the Mayfair and Shirakawa community centers, overnight shelters at Evergreen Valley and James Lick high schools, and winter warming centers at four library branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The inundation follows weeks of storms that have slammed the region. The last system in the most recent series of storms, on Presidents Day, hit the South Bay with particularly heavy rain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deluges have filled Anderson Reservoir to capacity, causing water to rush down the dam’s spillway and into Coyote Creek. The stream flows through neighborhoods in South San Jose, then east of downtown to the bayside community of Alviso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>High water flooded a wide area southeast, east and northeast of downtown and prompted the 12:15 a.m. evacuation order for the area adjacent to Coyote Creek north of Interstate 280, west of U.S. 101 and south of Highway 237.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flooding forced the closure of more than a dozen roads, including both directions of 101 between I-280 and I-880.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara Valley Water District officials said Wednesday morning that their crews had completed temporary repairs to Coyote Canal, work that was aimed at preventing more flooding onto 101.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The expanded evacuation orders early Wednesday came hours after fire crews rushed to rescue hundreds of people in the city’s Rock Springs neighborhood, where homes and cars were inundated under several feet of water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11328231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11328231\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg\" alt=\"City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1035\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-800x1035.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-160x207.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-960x1242.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-240x311.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-375x485.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap-520x673.jpg 520w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/sjevacuationmap.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City of San Jose map showing area where evacuations were ordered after Coyote Creek flooded.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have specific numbers for other water rescue operations, but I can tell you in my career this is probably the biggest,” San Jose Fire Department Capt. 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"headTitle": "The California Report | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>A series of storms soaked Northern California over the President's Day Holiday weekend, triggering flooding, mudslides and road damage in its wake. Some communities braced for further flooding as heavy waters made its way downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some photos of the rains, floods and response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People fill sandbags in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men fill sandbags in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men fill sandbags in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose's Fire Department rescues people caught in floodwaters on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose's Fire Department rescues people caught in floodwaters on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Jose Fire Department searches for people caught in floodwaters in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327173\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Road washed away on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County on Feb. 20, 2017. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Road washed away on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County on Feb. 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327174\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Water washes over Coyote Creek Trail in Coyote Creek Golf Club in Santa Clara County on Feb. 20, 2017. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-1180x1573.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-960x1280.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-240x320.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-375x500.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut-520x693.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24295_CoyoteCreek_SantaClara-qut.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water washes over Coyote Creek Trail in Coyote Creek Golf Club in Santa Clara County on Feb. 20, 2017. \u003ccite>(Santa Clara County Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327543\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327543\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A rainbow brightens stormy skies in San Francisco on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of storms swept through Northern California over the President Day's holiday weekend.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24332_16836596_10155037303303103_3921211739671265903_o-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A rainbow brightens stormy skies in San Francisco on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of storms swept through Northern California over the President Day's holiday weekend. \u003ccite>(Wendy Goodfriend/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327180\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Slide and road closure on Sir Francis Drake just west of Fairfax. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24306_Drake_closure05-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slide and road closure on Sir Francis Drake just west of Fairfax. \u003ccite>(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327251\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327251\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Slide and road closure on Sir Francis Drake just west of Fairfax.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24303_Drake_closure02-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Slide and road closure on Sir Francis Drake just west of Fairfax. \u003ccite>(Mark Fiore/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A series of storms soaked Northern California over the President's Day Holiday weekend, triggering flooding, mudslides and road damage in its wake. Some communities braced for further flooding as heavy waters made its way downstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some photos of the rains, floods and response:\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327181\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"People fill sandbags in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24309_IMG_3330-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men fill sandbags in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327247\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24315_IMG_3422-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327248\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24319_IMG_3402-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327249\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Flooded Terrace Trailer Park in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24321_IMG_3335-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Men fill sandbags in Modesto on Feb. 21, 2017, after a series of weekend storms struck California. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327177\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327177\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Jose's Fire Department rescues people caught in floodwaters on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24298_IMG_6647-qut-2-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jose's Fire Department rescues people caught in floodwaters on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327544\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327544\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24325_IMG_6568-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327545\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327545\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24327_IMG_6570-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Jose Fire Department searches for people caught in floodwaters in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327179\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24300_IMG_6694-qut-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strong storms trigger flooding in San Jose on Feb. 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Peter Jon Shuler/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11327173\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11327173\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Road washed away on Mount Hamilton in Santa Clara County on Feb. 20, 2017. \" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/RS24294_MountHamilton_SantaClara-qut-960x720.jpg 960w, 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"content": "\u003cp>An \"atmospheric river\" is a colorful term for a sinuous plume of moisture that travels up from the tropics — a single plume can carry more water than the Mississippi River at its mouth. But new research shows that atmospheric rivers are also among the most damaging weather systems around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The atmospheric rivers that soaked California this winter did some good — they ended an epic drought in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This has been a very active winter, atmospheric river-wise,\" reports Jeff Zimmerman of the National Weather Service. \"We've probably had 10 or more ... this winter.\" The norm is just a few; being a La Niña year, with cooler water in the eastern Pacific, was part of the reason for the abundance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11326937\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/atmospheric-river-9Jan17.gif\" alt=\"atmospheric-river-9Jan17\" width=\"700\" height=\"508\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Atmospheric rivers are famously wet. But atmospheric scientist \u003ca href=\"https://www.atmos.ucla.edu/people/faculty/duane-waliser\">Duane Waliser\u003c/a> has done some new research that shows they're also remarkably windy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waliser studied two decades of storms around the globe at mid-latitudes — that is, outside the tropics. When he focused on the very windiest — the top 2 percent — he found that \"atmospheric rivers are typically associated with 30 and even up to 50 percent of those very extreme cases.\" Atmospheric rivers were also responsible for almost that percentage of the very wettest storms, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the windiness was surprising. Waliser found that winds during an atmospheric river are typically twice the speed of the average storm. He says emergency responders need to know that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not only do [atmospheric rivers] come with this potential for flooding hazards,\" he says, \"they also come with potential for high-impact winds and extremes that can produce hazardous conditions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the atmospheric river that hit California on Jan. 8 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/09/508919216/iconic-sequoia-tunnel-tree-brought-down-by-california-storm\">knocked over a famous — and gigantic — sequoia\u003c/a> in a state park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11326939\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85.png\" alt=\"1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85.png 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-160x90.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-240x135.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-375x211.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/02/1988v1_20170110-westcoast_wide-6908c0c402373b4a08b369319e53b3a6b12e20b9-s600-c85-520x292.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waliser, who's with NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California, says the combination of water and high wind is especially costly. Over the past two decades, for example, Europe experienced 19 storms that each did at least a billion dollars in damage. \"And so out of these 19 storms,\" he says, \"we associated atmospheric rivers with 14 out of the 19.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waliser's research appears in the journal \u003cem>Nature Geoscience\u003c/em>. He says his next project is to find out if climate change will make atmospheric rivers more frequent.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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