
Only 50 to 60 in the camp of roughly 200 to 250 people heeded warnings to evacuate before the rains came and moved to a parking garage where a temporary shelter was created and they were offered food and blankets. No one had to be rescued from the encampment in the city park and there were no injuries of deaths, city spokeswoman Elizabeth Smith said. No victims were immediately located and authorities had no updates Wednesday.ĭrone footage showed a large homeless encampment of tents and tarps flooded on the banks of the San Lorenzo River in Santa Cruz. Two were pinned against a bridge abutment.
STORM OVER THE PACIFIC 1960 WATCH ONLINE TORRENT
Three cars washed down the concrete channel of the Los Angeles River when it became a raging torrent Tuesday. It frequently experiences damage during wet weather. The coastal route south of the San Francisco Bay Area got more than a foot (30 centimeters) of rain in 24 hours. More than 4.6 inches (12 centimeters) fell within 24 hours in Orange County's Silverado Canyon, south of LA, unleashing mud that swamped some homes and led to damage and several rescues but no injuries.Ī 40-mile (64-kilometer) stretch of the scenic Highway 1 in the Big Sur area remained closed to repair damage and clean up rocks that tumbled onto the road. More than 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rain fell in Santa Barbara County.

The storm dumped more than 11 inches (28 centimeters) of rain over three days at Mount Tamalpais, north of San Francisco.


In terms of making up those lost elements of storage, you're making some progress but maybe not as much as you'd like. The storm that began over the weekend and what's predicted to come this month will deliver about average precipitation, but that's far better than the past few years, he said.īut you also started the year in record-setting drought territory, Anderson noted. It was still too early to tell what impact the multiday atmospheric river a long plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean that delivered remarkable precipitation as far inland as Nevada will have on the state's water supply.ĭecember kicks off the big three months for precipitation in California, with about half of the state's annual rain and snow falling in December, January and February, said Michael Anderson, California's state climatologist.
