![]() The flooding has forced local emergency crews to rescue more than 90 people in Monterey County, Sheriff Tina Nieto said in a news briefing Saturday afternoon. Soquel is one of the hardest-hit areas in Santa Cruz County, soaking more than 6.5 inches of rain in certain areas while widespread rainfall was about 2 inches, according to a report from the National Weather Service office in San Francisco.Īs of Saturday morning, more than 41,000 homes and businesses across the state were without power, with about 30,000 of those outages in coastal Monterey County, according to tracking site. snowbank survives nearly a week on croissants and candy Christian Jouret/Christian JouretĨ1-year-old stuck in Calif. Jerry Jouret, shown with grandson Christian, said he is recovering well. Flood warnings were still in effect across portions of northern and central California through early Saturday. Melting snowpack will play a role in prolonging flooding over the upcoming days, forecasters have said.Ībout 15 million people were under flood watches – stretching from as far north as Redding southward to San Bernardino in California, and included parts of northwest Nevada. The impacts from this week’s storms have been compounded after severe rainfall was dumped over the same areas buried by heavy snowfalls the past two weeks. “Overall the environmental ingredients aren’t as impressive as the recent strong atmospheric river event, but nonetheless a prolonged period of light to occasionally moderate rainfall is expected across parts of central to northern California” on Saturday, the Weather Prediction Center said. Nathan Frandino/ReutersĢ dead, nearly 10,000 under evacuation orders as California floods intensify A portion of Interstate 580 is closed due to flooding from an atmospheric river storm system in Oakland, California.
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