Emergency officials in California's San Luis Obispo County spent early Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers after an atmospheric river storm drenched the already-saturated state with torrential rain, raising the flooding risk in some areas.
"We're very concerned. Since January, it's been raining steadily here and so our ground is fully saturated and our creeks are full," Dion said, noting that more than 1,200 residents were under evacuation orders and warnings.The heavy rains in northern and central California raised concerns that melting snow from a spate of blizzards in mid-elevation mountains could add to runoff and cause flooding downstream.
It marks the latest of 10 such California storms since Christmas, adding to an exceptionally wet, snowy winter in a state that in recent years has been plagued far more by drought and wildfires than by severe precipitation. In Santa Cruz County, officials overnight issued evacuation orders, telling residents living near rivers to move to higher ground as the National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for that area.
Waterfront communities along several major rivers and their tributaries across the state also braced for the possibility of overflowing streams swollen by heavy showers and runoff of melting snow.
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