[csusbpeace] Northern California Sees More Rain While The South Dries Out
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- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2023 11:08:58 -0800
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/california-storms-rain-flooding_n_63bee25fe4b0d6f0ba009398
Northern California Sees More Rain While The South Dries Out
At least 17 people have died in the storms battering the state. The figure is
likely to rise.
Jan 11, 2023
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Storm-ravaged California
<https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/california> scrambled to clean up and
repair widespread damage on Wednesday as the lashing rain eased in many
areas, although thunderstorms led a new atmospheric river
<https://apnews.com/article/4032ebd7e5e04800b44c35241b66a6a7> into the
northern half of the state.
The plume of moisture lurking off the coast stretched all the way over the
Pacific to Hawaii, making it “a true Pineapple Express,” the National Weather
Service said.
Its rains were expected to impact only impact Northern California, giving the
south a break until more wet weather arrives by the weekend.
At least 17 people have died in the storms battering the state
<https://apnews.com/article/floods-weather-natural-disasters-landslides-and-mudslides-storms-21b103e791710f4af6ca0ce45c6030b5>.
The figure is likely to rise, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday during a visit
to the scenic town of Capitola on the Santa Cruz coast that was hard hit by
high surf and flooding creek waters last week.
A pickup truck driver and a motorcyclist were killed early Tuesday in the San
Joaquin Valley when a tree that had been struck by lightning fell on them,
authorities said.
More than half of California’s 58 counties were declared disaster areas, the
governor said.
The previous storm that began Monday
<https://apnews.com/article/california-flooding-Montecito-evacuation-order-7c151eeaf3f567a125d74245173327f1>
was one in a series that began late last month
<https://apnews.com/b83bb05fa2d21796a85be9bfc690cf17> and repairing the
damage may cost more than $1 billion, said Adam Smith, a disaster expert with
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Los Angeles Times
reported.
Jesus Torres carries belongings from his flooded Merced, Calif., home on
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
Crews worked to reopen major highways that were closed by rockslides, swamped
by flooding or smothered with mud while more than 10,000 people who were
ordered out of seaside towns on the central coast were allowed to return home.
They included Montecito, a wealthy Santa Barbara County community that is
home to Prince Harry and other celebrities where 23 people died and more than
100 homes were destroyed in a mudslide five years ago
<https://apnews.com/article/3fff145e651f4a81b1cf71177153c337>.
Yet thousands of people living near rain-swollen creeks and rivers remained
under evacuation orders. In the San Joaquin Valley, raging waters from Bear
Creek flooded parts of the city of Merced and neighboring Planada, a small
agricultural community along a highway leading to Yosemite National Park.
All 4,000 residents of Planada were ordered to leave Tuesday morning.
Neighborhoods were under water with cars submerged up to their roofs.
Residents ordered to evacuate carried whatever they could salvage on their
backs as they left in the rain.
Other evacuations were ordered because of levee breaches
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in parts of Monterey County.
Despite the rain, most of the state remained in extreme or severe drought
<https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-california-droughts-storms-04a759ff7f9db227d226ce098ad62b6d>,
according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
The storms may help locally “but will not resolve the long-term drought
challenges,” said Rick Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
San Diego firefighters help Humberto Maciel rescue his dog from his flooded
home in Merced, California, on January 10, 2023. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON/AFP
via Getty Images)
JOSH EDELSON via Getty Images
Damage from the storm included washed-out roads and seaside businesses
flooded by 20-foot (6-meter) surf that pounded Santa Cruz County.
Many areas saw unprecedented amounts of rain coupled with furious winds and
even hail and lightning that knocked down trees and damaged electrical lines.
More than 75,000 homes and businesses around the state were without power as
of late Tuesday night, according to the website Poweroutage.us.
<https://poweroutage.us/>
Mudslides damaged some homes in pricey Los Angeles hillside areas, while
further up the coast a sinkhole damaged 15 homes in the rural Santa Barbara
County community of Orcutt.
Kevin Costner, best-actor winner in a television drama series for
“Yellowstone,” was unable to attend Tuesday’s Golden Globe awards in Los
Angeles because of the weather. Presenter Regina Hall said he was sheltering
in place in Santa Barbara due to flooding.
In San Francisco, a tree fell on a commuter bus on Tuesday without causing
injuries and lightning struck the city’s iconic Transamerica Pyramid building
without damage. High winds also ripped away part of the roof on a large
apartment building.
Some people found themselves stranded in small communities inundated with
water and mud.
Brenda Ortega, 15, salvages items from her flooded Merced, Calif., home on
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
“We’re all stuck out here,” Brian Briggs said, describing a scary night
during which the deluge unleashed mudslides in remote Matilija Canyon that
buried one house and cut off the only road to nearby Ojai. The canyon creek
began to flood yards and the surrounding hills, which were stripped of
vegetation in the 2017 Thomas Fire, began to tumble down in the dark.
Mudflows dragged sheds, gazebos and outhouses into the creek, Briggs said.
After helping neighbors get to higher ground, he returned home to find his
fence destroyed by waist-deep mud.
A helicopter dropped 10 sheriff’s deputies Tuesday to help the residents of
dozens of canyon homes.
The wet and blustery weather left California’s large homeless population in a
precarious situation. At least two homeless people in Sacramento County died
and more than a dozen people were rescued from a homeless encampment on the
Ventura River.
Theo Harris, who has lived on San Francisco’s streets since 2016, fortified
his shelter with tarps and zip ties Tuesday and took in his girlfriend after
her tent flooded.
“The wind has been treacherous, but you just got to bundle up and make sure
you stay dry,” Harris said. “Rain is part of life. It’s going to be sunny.
It’s going to rain. I just got to strap my boots up and not give up.”
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