Storm Pounds NorCal Knocking Out Power, Flooding Streets And Toppling Trees
Residents of Northern California were hit hard early Sunday as a powerful storm drenched the area with yet another round of pounding rain and strong winds.
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Residents of Northern California were hit hard early Sunday as a powerful storm drenched the area with yet another round of pounding rain and strong winds.
People living near the Truckee River are bracing themselves for what's predicted to come. It's big, powerful, and soon the river will come knocking.
Employees with the Department of California Water Resources are calling this storm the region's biggest in the last six years.
The bank of the Truckee River was moving quickly Friday night. Although it wasn't near a flood stage, by Sunday morning, the river may rise four feet.
The second round of a wet, windy storm is moving across Northern California, bringing with it localized flooding, knocking down trees and snarling traffic on the roads.
The rain hitting the region this week has some thinking about the last big floods in the area.
The parking lot at a popular Roseville shopping center is a muddy mess after a broken fire hydrant flooded it early Monday morning.
Romney was asked at a presidential debate whether FEMA should be shut down in light of the deficit. Romney replied that FEMA should "absolutely" be shut down. He was asked specifically if that included disaster relief. He replied that it was "immoral" to provide such relief in the face of "larger debts", emphasizing that "it makes no sense at all" to have such programs.
An attempted burglary caused a building to flood over the weekend. The incident happened on Sunday at an industrial building on Del Monte Street.
Vacaville has suffered 12 floods in the last five decades, but the city's latest effort to stop any further damage and protect its citizens is in jeopardy.
It was a treacherous commute for much of Northern California as a morning downpour caused a bevy of accidents as water pooled on Valley roadways and snow piled up on Sierra passes.
Last night's storm has left the area after dropping an inch of rain and causing some damage in the process.
The winter's first big storm dumped several inches of rain in the valley and several feet of snow in the mountains.
Firefighters say a broken sprinkler head caused a flood at a Panda Express restaurant in Antelope last night.
A runaway trailer created quite a mess after it rolled down a steep hill and sheared off a fire hydrant causing a small flood.
A popular Sacramento restaurant had to clean up a soggy mess after the eatery flooded.
Crews on California's Central Coast were working Friday to reopen a highway through the Big Sur area and repair damage from a flood that forced the evacuation of a mobile home park, as the region got a respite from a powerful storm that brought heavy wind and rain.
Crews are making emergency repairs to an eroding levee south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in case a heavy mountain snowpack cause flooding problems this spring.
A Pacific storm system is bringing rain and mountain snow to northern California. More than half of an inch has already reported throughout Sacramento and northern San Joaquin Valleys.
Many California residents who endured flooding, mudslides and evacuations during a weeklong onslaught of rain must now clean up or even rebuild -- and could face the prospect of not being able to spend Christmas at home.
A storm pounding California with record rain forced authorities in the San Joaquin Valley to call Monday for the evacuation of some 2,000 residents of the farming community of McFarland due to major flooding.
A storm walloped parts of California with up to 7 inches of rain and spawned minor flooding, mudslides and road closures Monday, but forecasters warn the bad weather's real impact may be yet to come.
