Posted on 03/09/2023 10:42:57 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Officials in California are imploring residents to prepare for a powerful storm set to lash the region with torrential rain later this week as the state continues to recover from colossal amounts of snow that trapped mountain communities.
Previous severe weather was responsible for the death of one person in the San Bernardino Mountains area. The San Bernardino County Sheriff's Office said the person died in a traffic accident. Other deaths since February 25 don't appear to be weather-related but investigations are ongoing, spokesperson Mara Rodriguez said.
About 17.5 million people across central and Northern California -- including the San Francisco Bay area and Sacramento -- and parts of Nevada were under flood watches Wednesday ahead of a storm set to drench the region Thursday with dangerous amounts of rain in most of the places that currently have existing layers of heavy snow from previous brutal storms.
"A storm arriving Thursday will bring a threat of flooding from a combination of heavy rain and snowmelt to lower elevations and foothills in California, especially below 5000 feet," the Weather Prediction Center said. "And heavy, wet snow at higher elevations will lead to difficult travel and impacts from snow load.
"Creeks and streams in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada will be most vulnerable to flooding from rain and snowmelt."
In response to the ominous forecast, officials in Marin and Monterey counties in California have begun preparations ahead of the looming storm, which is expected to strike the area as a strong atmospheric river event.
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Those who laugh at preppers are Still laughing....right?
Big Sur is absolutely beautiful, but reachable by one highway (ex US 101/now Cal 1) that often gets closed because of landslides.
Some people will stock up on weed and consider themselves covered.
I have no sympathy at all for the idiots in California. They voted for this sh!t.
They should be used to it from all the snow.
They should have enough sense to fend for themselves and not depend on their crappy government this time
Hey Whoopi, this is what they get for voting for Biden, right?
“ Some people will stock up on weed and consider themselves covered.”
That’s to keep you from going nuts from cabin fever. It’s an essential according to my state government and *must* be available even during pandemics
WE were preppers in the 80’s..........
California isn't providing free weed yet?
A lot like the southern Oregon coast.
They voted for this! Oh, wait...
People can grow it. I’m sure the peeps in Big Sur do so.
One of my favorite drives, ever.
🎶 It never rains in California
But girl, don’t they warn ya?
It pours, man, it pours🎶
Whatever happened to the impending ice age, I mean global warming, I mean climate change, water shortage?
Voted for what? You don’t get to vote on weather! We don’t have elections in this country anymore! U.S. Selections are manipulated from data centers all over mainland China!
>(ex US 101/now Cal 1)
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I’m a graybeard and a Native Son of the Golden West and 101 has always been 101 and 1 has always been 1. CA1 goes along the coast, AKA Pacific Coast Highway (PCH), 101 is somewhat inland and more or less follows the path of the Spanish missionaries. There are spots where 1 and 101 are on the same strip of highway, the Golden Gate bridge and northward is an example.
And the nerd joke is that 101 is binary for 5 which is the north/south interstate.
I wonder where Gavin Newsom is going on vacation now?
You might be right, but I remember its being 101/PCH through my hometown, Long Beach, and 101 down to San Diego back in the day, and it’s Cal 1 now.
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