![]() (Data courtesy National Weather Service Bay Area)Ĭentral California also saw impressive rainfall totals. ![]() California – 8.61 (Averaged across the state).San Francisco International Airport – 11.59 inches (Record-breaker).Oakland – 12.90 inches (Record-breaker). ![]() (Image courtesy Roberto Graves) 16-day rainfall totals San Francisco’s Marina district neighborhood was severely flooded on Dec. “In this time, California averaged 8.61 inches of precipitation, and the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan statistical area averaged 13.34 inches,” NWS forecasters wrote. On Wednesday afternoon, the NWS posted updated numbers tallied from atmospheric rivers that poured over California between December 26 and January 10. For Noah, the flooding translated to no work and a day's wages lost.SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Rainfall totals released by the National Weather Service Bay Area revealed that more than a foot of rain has drenched San Francisco and Oakland within the past 16 days. Residents without generators desperate to power up cell phones and get help found rest at a nearby evacuation center. The creeks are three times the size they normally are and we have swift water flowing," "This is the worst it's been," Hillary Goldschlager said. Rising water inundated and flooded streets, homes, and businesses. The Pescadero Creek overflowed its banks Monday quickly flooding the main part of town. They're also dealing with the worst flooding since heavy downpours and storms began on New Year's Eve. Meanwhile, Pescadero residents have been without electricity for days. near the Felton Grove neighborhood, trapping several residents who ignored the pre-dawn evacuation order delivered over loudspeakers by sheriffs deputies. Officials said the river crested at 24.52 feet at 7:45 a.m. The resort prepared by getting about 8,000 pounds of sandbags, readying generators, and handing out lanterns to guests who opted to weather the storm in their cabins. Still, Martin said she wasn't worried - her family has owned the property for about 60 years, and her grandfather checked out conditions Monday and shrugged it off. The river is usually about 60 feet below the cabins, Martin said, but it crept up to 12 feet from the cabins. Nicole Martin, third-generation owner of the Fern River Resort in Felton, said Monday that her clients sipped coffee, sat on cabin porches amid towering redwood trees, and were "enjoying the show" as picnic tables and other debris floated down the swollen San Lorenzo. "You can't really change Mother Nature you just have to roll with the punches and hope you don't get swept up into it." "A little coffee can't hurt anybody," she said. Her staff couldn't come in because of closed roads, including a bridge over the San Lorenzo. "It's been hell getting over here, we almost did this a few nights ago, but when we bought the property, we raised our levees up around us, another 16 inches so we're way above everybody us but we'd never thought it would come in from the back side of us," he said.įloodwaters also inundated the Santa Cruz Mountain community of Felton, flooding a neighborhood near the overflowing San Lorenzo River.Ĭhristine Patracuola, the owner of Rocky's Cafe for 25 years, handed out free coffee to customers whose homes lacked power Monday. Rick Wilkinson's family ranch in Hollister was under an evacuation warning and they decided it was time to head out when the back of their property began to flood. In the Watsonville and Hollister area, flood waters drove local residents from their homes and flowed onto Highway 101, shutting down the freeway for hours.
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