She had some moderate injuries but she’s at the hospital now, she’s being taken care of.” Hana Mohsin, right, carries belongings from a neighbor’s home which was damaged in a mudslide on Wednesday, Jan. “We have one injury that occurred with a resident as the mud was coming in. “A couple of them were extreme, where the mud actually went into the house,” Priolo said. Deputy Fire Marshal Dorothy Priolo with the Monterey County Regional Fire District said 20 to 25 homes were damaged by mudflows coming down from the River Fire burn scar on the 800 block and the 1300 block of River Road. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)įarther south, mudflows damaged homes south of Salinas along River Road. “If you want to be safe, you should factor in that there is the possibility of another burst of heavy rain up there.”ĭANVILLE, CA – JANUARY 27: Parker Scott walks along a roadway that received a light dusting of snow near the summit of Mount Diablo State Park on Wednesday, Jan. “It does look like the atmospheric river is swinging back north,” Marty Ralph, director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes at UC San Diego, said Wednesday afternoon. Much of the region, including those areas burned by wildfires last year, remains under a flood watch through Thursday afternoon. Wednesday but was later extended through 2:30 a.m. The advisory was initially set to run through 5:15 p.m. Forecasters warned that small streams and creeks could overflow their banks. Wednesday, the National Weather Service issued an areal flood advisory for much of the South Bay, including San Jose, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, and Santa Cruz County and northern Monterey and San Benito counties. That led the National Weather Service to reissue a flash flood warning for the burn areas in northern Santa Cruz and southern San Mateo counties until 6:30 p.m., just a few hours after it had cancelled earlier warnings, calling the bursts of heavy rain “a life-threatening situation.”Īround 2:45 p.m. The drenching, atmospheric river storm took a circuitous path across the area, shifting to the south in the early morning hours Wednesday and battering Monterey County before turning and heading back north in the early afternoon. It creates a much more dangerous situation.” You have all this debris on the forest floor that can wash down where roads and houses are built. “But because of the fires, it’s a different dynamic. “In any other year we wouldn’t even blink about getting 3 or 4 inches of rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains in a day,” said Jan Null, a meteorologist with Golden Gate Weather Services in Half Moon Bay. The good news: Although several slides were reported on Highway 1 in Big Sur south of Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park, by Wednesday evening no major damage had been reported in the Bay Area, particularly in the Santa Cruz Mountains around Boulder Creek, Ben Lomond and other communities where the CZU Lightning Complex Fire in August had left vast areas denuded and at risk. With more rain brewing off the Pacific coast early Thursday morning, the North Bay was expected to see scattered showers throughout the day, in addition to heavier rainfall further south toward Big Sur, before the storm system shifts eastward by Thursday night, said meteorologist David King, with the NWS Monterey office. The city limits of San Jose picked up close to an inch overnight with the potential for another inch of rainfall throughout the day Thursday. Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. Overnight, rain continued to hammer the South Bay, dumping up to 2.5 inches at the highest peaks of the Santa Cruz Mountains just from 6 p.m. While the rain and blustery conditions were expected to continue into Thursday evening, about 5,000 residents in the Santa Cruz Mountains remained under evacuation as the fear of potentially deadly mudslides persisted into the night. The Bay Area’s most powerful storm in 12 months socked and soaked the region Wednesday with a double dose of rain, snow and intense winds that downed trees and knocked out power from Sonoma to Monterey County.
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