It was the third time since the New Year’s Eve storm that Ruben Renteria, 30, will have to rip out and replace linoleum flooring in his rental properties on East Lake Avenue, across from a raspberry farm. Flood waters on Friday morning poured through several neighborhoods close to Corralitos Creek, which spills into the Pajaro River. The mud is sticky and stinky and not very fun to deal with.”īut Watsonville wasn’t spared. I’m just really really, really grateful that we didn’t have all the mud. ![]() “I just am amazed that we didn’t get a big flood like last time. “I was up all night watching the river gauge,” Wright, 63, said. His neighbor, Virginia Wright, was relieved as she and her dog, Sobaka, went for a walk on the muddy streets near the Covered Bridge in Felton. “It looks like the rest of the neighborhood fared pretty good this time,” said Jason Dietz, 48, who hosed muddy water out of the concrete garage below the living quarters of his Felton home Friday morning. It was enough to fill a few streets with brown, knee-high deep water that quickly receded. Emergency officials in Santa Cruz County had issued evacuation warnings for Felton Grove, Paradise Park and other areas along the San Lorenzo River that that flood often in big storms.Īt Felton Grove, which flooded badly in January, the river crested Friday morning at 20 feet - nearly 4 feet above its flood level, but 3 feet less than had been predicted. No major rivers in the Bay Area suffered significant flooding. We’re planning to reassess and try to re-open tomorrow.” “When we get transitional weather like this, like wet storms, it can really affect lift operations. “This most recent storm is a real wallop of an atmospheric river,” said Maggie Eshbaugh, a Sugar Bowl spokeswoman. At Palisades Tahoe, a 139 mph gust was recorded atop one of the ridgelines shortly before dawn. High winds and avalanche concerns prompted several ski resorts in the Lake Tahoe area to close Friday, including Palisades Tahoe, Kirkwood and Sugar Bowl. In Southern California, the storms caused serious flooding in parts of Kernville, a town 50 miles north of Bakersfield, where the rain melted snow that had accumulated in recent weeks at lower elevations.įorecasters said that more snow is expected in the Sierra in large amounts this weekend, with another 3 or 4 feet possible at Donner Summit and 6 feet or more expected at Tioga Pass in Yosemite National Park, which has been closed all week. We’ll be talking about the January storms.” “Next year when we are talking about the storms of this winter, we won’t be talking about this one. ![]() “It was a typical winter storm in the Bay Area,” Null said. ![]() The Santa Cruz Mountains absorbed 4 to 6 inches and Big Sur, where Caltrans closed Highway 1 due to rockslides, saw 10 inches at the highest elevations. Oakland, Walnut Creek and much of the East Bay saw about 2 inches. Friday, San Jose, San Francisco and most towns in the Peninsula had received about 1 inch of rain over the previous 24 hours. Rain totals were generally at, or slightly below the amounts forecasted by the National Weather Service.īy 3 p.m. The goal was to have roughly 1,000 residents in the Soquel Hills able to cross it by Saturday. and 1:30 p.m., sending motorists onto side streets in a confused tangle of traffic.įlood waters tore out a large section of North Main Street in Soquel Village in Santa Cruz County, scrambling county road workers to repair it with a steel plate and rocks. To the south, surging waters from Uvas Creek flooded Highway 101 south of Gilroy between about 10 a.m.
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