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Storm in California causes rock slides, flooding while dumping heavy rain and snow
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A robust storm introduced drenching rain or heavy snowfall to a lot of California on Saturday, snarling site visitors and shutting highways because the state ready to usher in a brand new 12 months. Within the excessive Sierra Nevada, as a lot as 2 ft of snow might accumulate into early Sunday.
The Nationwide Climate Service in Sacramento warned about hazardous driving circumstances and posted photographs on Twitter displaying site visitors on snow-covered mountain passes, the place autos had been required to have chains or four-wheel drive.
The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in an extended and extensive plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean. Flooding and rock slides closed parts of roads throughout Northern California.
“Too many street closures to rely at this level,” the climate company in Sacramento mentioned in a day tweet. Sacramento County urged residents within the unincorporated neighborhood of Wilton to evacuate, warning that flooded roadways might “reduce off entry to go away the world.”
Officers in Santa Cruz County posted a photo of a big sinkhole that opened alongside a street.
Rainfall in downtown San Francisco on Saturday topped 5 inches at midafternoon, making it the second-wettest day on document, behind a November 1994 deluge. With rain persevering with to fall, it might threaten the practically three-decade previous document.
The California Freeway Patrol mentioned a bit of U.S. 101 — one of many state’s primary site visitors arteries — was closed indefinitely south of San Francisco due to flooding. Movies on Twitter confirmed mud-colored water streaming alongside San Francisco streets, and a staircase in Oakland changed into a veritable waterfall by heavy rains.
Climate service meteorologist Courtney Carpenter mentioned the storm might drop over an inch of rain within the Sacramento space earlier than transferring south. One ski resort south of Lake Tahoe closed chair lifts due to flooding and operational issues, and posted a photograph on Twitter displaying one raise tower and its empty chairs surrounded by water.
“We’re seeing loads of flooding,” Carpenter mentioned.
The Sacramento company launched a map of 24-hour precipitation via Saturday morning, displaying a variety of totals within the area, from lower than an inch in some areas to greater than 5 inches within the Sierra foothills.
The Mammoth Mountain Ski Space reported quite a few raise closings, citing excessive winds, low visibility and ice.
The Stockton Police Division posted photographs of a flooded railroad underpass and a automotive that appeared stalled in additional than a foot of water.
The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California, however far more precipitation is required to make a big distinction. The previous three years have been California’s driest on document.
A winter storm warning was in impact into Sunday for the higher elevations of the Sierra from south of Yosemite Nationwide Park to north of Lake Tahoe, the place as a lot as 5 ft of snow is feasible atop the mountains, the Nationwide Climate Service mentioned in Reno, Nevada.
A flood watch was in impact throughout a lot of Northern California via New 12 months’s Eve. Officers warned that rivers and streams might overflow and urged residents to get sandbags prepared.
Some rainfall totals within the San Francisco Bay Space topped 4 inches.
The state transportation company reported quite a few street closures, together with Freeway 70 east of Chico, which was partially closed by a slide, and the northbound facet of Freeway 49, east of Sacramento, which was closed due to flooding. In El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, a stretch of Freeway 50 was closed due to flooding.
Humboldt County, the place a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Dec. 20, additionally noticed roadways start to flood, in accordance with the Nationwide Climate Service’s Eureka workplace. A bridge that was quickly closed final week as a consequence of earthquake harm could also be closed once more if the Eel River, which it crosses, will get too excessive, officers mentioned.
It was the primary of a number of storms anticipated to roll throughout California over the following week. The present system is anticipated to be hotter and wetter, whereas subsequent week’s storms might be colder, mentioned Hannah Chandler-Cooley, a meteorologist on the Nationwide Climate Service in Sacramento.
The Sacramento area might obtain a complete of 4 to five inches of rain over the span of the week, Chandler-Cooley mentioned.
“Sturdy winds might trigger tree harm and result in energy outages and excessive waves on Lake Tahoe could capsize small vessels,” the climate service in Reno mentioned.
Avalanche warnings had been issued within the backcountry round Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes south of Yosemite.
On the Sierra’s jap entrance, flood watches and warnings had been issued into the weekend north and south of Reno, Nevada, the place minor to reasonable flooding was forecast alongside some rivers and streams.
In Southern California, moderate-to-heavy rain was falling Saturday. The area will start drying out on New 12 months’s Day, with no rainfall anticipated throughout Monday’s Rose Parade in Pasadena.
One other spherical of heavy showers was forecast for Tuesday or Wednesday, the Nationwide Climate Service in Oxnard mentioned.
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4-year-old California boy found safe after spending night alone in wilderness
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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. — A 4-year-old boy from Torrance, California was found safe Friday morning after he spent the night in the wilderness in Fresno County, California.
Christian Ramirez went missing Thursday morning from a campground.
Search teams found him Friday about a quarter-mile from where he disappeared.
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Ramirez was hungry and tired, but otherwise found in good condition. He was reunited with his parents.
It’s still unclear exactly how he got separated from his family, but authorities said it appeared he wandered off while they were at the campground.
KFSN-TV contributed to this report.
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An Interview with Retired California Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye
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Tani Cantil-Sakauye was the 28th Chief Justice of the State of California. The first Asian Filipina American and the second woman to serve as the state’s chief justice, she is the current president and CEO of the Public Policy Institute of California. Before sitting on the panel for “What Makes a Great California Idea?,” part of the inaugural CalMatters Ideas Festival, Cantil-Sakauye joined us in the green room to talk about humor, mediation, and the “Sackamenna Kid.”
Q:
In this event description, we referred to California as Tomorrowland. If you could create any land, what land would it be?
A:
I would call it Opportunityland, and I would like it to be a place where people could try out new things, find who they really are, find their passions and their talents instead of finding out too late, or never finding out at all, or being wistful that they had tried something else.
Q:
Can you give us an example?
A:
I was a lawyer at a time when there weren’t a lot of female prosecutors in the courtroom. And I was standing by the elevator once, and the lawyer said to me, Cantil, it looks like you’re gaining weight. And I said to him: you should talk, you have seven hairs on your head and four are loose. And so, we are friends to this day, but I always felt that insulting attorneys going into trial about their hair sort of took them off balance.
Q:
What have you learned as a mediator about navigating conflict?
A:
It takes a while, and it requires multiple steps along the way and then an assessment of how the steps are going with talking to them. So for me, and for contemporary mediation, we meet in separate rooms. It’s about getting to know not necessarily the lawyer, but the client of the lawyer. I think it’s a lot of listening and empathizing, and truly understanding and standing in the shoes of who they are, their experiences, and how it’s feeling to them now.
Q:
Was there a journalist that you particularly admired growing up?
A:
I’m old enough to remember and appreciate Herb Caen, who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. He was from Sacramento, but he was basically, professionally, in the Bay Area. And he was called the “Sackamenna Kid.” He wrote about current events and insights into politics with humor, and he had his own column. While I was aware of all the other news, Herb Caen was the piece of paper that I would always grab and read. I didn’t understand most of it, frankly, because it was all political insider stuff. But he did it in such a humorous way that was pithy and funny but meaningful; so that was what I remember. When I was growing up, there were like three TV stations. There wasn’t cable. There wasn’t streaming. There wasn’t internet. There wasn’t anything. There was like one or two newspapers, and that was it. So you know, you made your joy wherever you could find it.
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Want to move to Nevada? California-based class teaches how
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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Hundreds of thousands of people have moved to Nevada since the pandemic, and a class helps Northern California residents make informed decisions before the leap to relocate to the Silver State.
The class is titled “Exit Strategies for Leaving the Bay Area,” offered by Campbell Adult & Community Education in San Jose. Realtor Punam Navalgund created the class in 2019 and tells FOX5 that the concept was born out of necessity by a demand from clients.
“It was me hearing a need from home sellers to make more informed decisions about making their move,” Navalgund said. “There are people from all walks of life, people looking to retire, people who want to raise a family somewhere else where the cost of living isn’t as high as it is here in the Bay Area. It’s people who have a lot of equity in their homes, who aren’t really sure how much they’re going to have left at the end of the transaction,” she said.
Navalgund said students have moved to states such as Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Texas, Florida and Georgia, but Nevada remains a popular relocation destination.
“We help people build a support team here locally, as well as in their destination. So whether that’s looking for lawyers, looking for real estate agents, looking for tax professionals, financial planners, I really want people to feel secure about making that decision,” she said.
According to data from the Lee School of Business at UNLV, 355,088 people moved from California from 2020 to 2023 and 148,939 people were from California. Data came from licenses surrendered to the Nevada DMV.
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