The Caldor Fire has burned for more than two months and in early September it prompted the unprecedented evacuation of the entire city of South Lake Tahoe. “It should end fire season and it should end our need - to a large degree - to fight this fire.” “This amount of rainfall is what we call a season-ending event,” Brigham said. “California still needs more precipitation, and it really needs it in high elevations and spread out over a longer time so it’s not hazardous.”Ĭhristy Brigham, chief of resource management and science at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, said the rain was a huge relief after the Caldor Fire torched an unknown number of the giant trees in the park, along with thousands of pines and cedars. “While this rain is welcome, it comes with these hazards and it won't necessarily end the drought,” Mankin said. Justin Mankin, a geography professor at Dartmouth College and co-lead of the Drought Task Force at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the cycle of going from years-long drought to record-breaking downpours is something expected to continue due to climate change. 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.
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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. Pacific Gas & Electric reported Sunday evening that 380,000 homes and businesses lost power, though most had it back Monday. The storm was accompanied by strong winds that knocked down trees and even toppled two big rigs on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge. Northeast of the San Francisco Bay Area, 5.44 inches (13.82 centimeters) fell on downtown Sacramento, shattering the one-day record for rainfall that had stood since 1880. “We literally have gone from fire/drought conditions to flooding in one storm cycle.”
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“It’s been a memorable past 24 hours for the Bay Area as the long talked-about atmospheric river rolled through the region,” the local weather office said. The National Weather Service called preliminary rainfall totals “staggering,” including 11 inches (28 centimeters) at the base of Marin County’s Mount Tamalpais and 4 inches (10 centimeters) in downtown San Francisco, the fourth-wettest day ever for the city. “We need it to keep raining, but hopefully not that hard.” “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.