![]() Most of the increase came between Saturday and Monday, during the height of the storm, KHSL-TV reported. Lake Oroville, a major Northern California reservoir, saw its water levels rise 20 feet (6.10 meters) over the past week, according to the state’s Department of Water Resource. Two people were killed when a tree fell on a vehicle in the greater Seattle area. The same storm system also slammed Oregon and Washington state, causing power outages that affected tens of thousands of people. ![]() ![]() In California’s Colusa and Yolo counties, state highways 16 and 20 were shut for several miles because of mudslides, the state Department of Transportation said. Interstate 80, the major highway through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Reno, Nevada, was shut down by heavy snow early Monday. An hour later, crews rescued an individual and their dog stranded on an island in the middle of Coyote Creek.Īs the storm headed south, precipitation levels fell, though a flood warning still was issued Monday afternoon for Los Angeles County. San Jose Fire crews located one person clinging to a tree in the Guadalupe River at 3:30 a.m., but were unable to locate a second person. Water rose so quickly that two people and a dog needed rescuing from rising creeks in separate incidents early Monday in San Jose. “We need it to keep raining, but hopefully not that hard.”Īustralian floods could inundate or isolate 34,000 homes By ROD McGUIRK “It was crazy! I kept thinking it was going to stop, but it just kept going and going,” Casaclang said Monday as he headed to his job as a security guard in the Financial District. Social media filled with pictures that showed windshields splattered with droplets of water and single-word posts: RAIN!!!Įarl Casaclang of San Francisco kept waiting for a break in the rain Sunday to go out and smoke a cigarette. ![]() When the storm arrived during the weekend, people joyfully dusted off rain boots and jackets and children stomped in puddles. The wet weather also greatly reduces the chances of additional wildfires in a region that has borne the brunt of another devastating year of blazes in the state. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Across Northern California, crews worked Monday to clear streets of toppled trees and branches and to clean gutters clogged by debris carried by rainwater from a massive storm that caused flooding and rock slides, and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands.ĭespite the problems, the rain and mountain snow were welcome in Northern California, which is so dry that nearly all of it is classified as either experiencing extreme or exceptional drought. ![]()
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