Dozens of Northern California residents were evacuated from their flooded homes on Wednesday by rescue workers using boats and firetrucks.
A drought-busting series of storms began to move out of the region after days of heavy rain and snow that toppled trees and wreaked havoc as far north as Portland, Oregon.
Reports of the flooding started about 2am Wednesday as water from a quickly rising creek in the small rural town of Hollister deluged homes on a two-lane stretch of road called Lovers Lane.
Torrents of rain gushed down the street even after rescuers finished evacuating residents more than seven hours later.
Drought-busting series of storms began to move out of the region after days of heavy rain and snow that toppled trees and wreaked havoc as far north as Portland, Oregon. Lorin Doeleman uses a kayak to check her flooded home on Wednesday, January 11 in Guerneville, California. She is moving her belongings to her Sacramento home
Reports of the flooding started about 2am Wednesday as water from a quickly rising creek in the small rural town of Hollister deluged homes on a two-lane stretch of road called Lovers Lane
Rescue workers used boats and firetrucks to evacuate dozens of Northern California residents from their flooded homes Wednesday
Some homes had mudlines about five feet high, marking how far the water rose. The water by that time was receding but still waist-deep in places. A young girl helps her father out of his kayak on Drake Road in Guerneville, California
Some homes had mudlines about five feet high, marking how far the water rose. The water by that time was receding but still waist-deep in places.
Forecasters said precipitation would continue through Thursday, but the brunt of the back-to-back systems fueled by an ‘atmospheric river’ weather phenomenon had passed after delivering the heaviest rain in a decade to parts of Northern California and Nevada.
The massive rain and snowfall that prompted a rare blizzard warning in parts of the Sierra Nevada mountains is helping much of Northern California recover from a six-year drought.
The series of storms has also added 39 billion gallons of water to Lake Tahoe since January 1……More Here