Flood problems grow as new storm moves into California

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By HAVEN DALEY and JOHN ANTCZAK today

WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Crews rushed to repair a levee break on a storm-swollen river in California’s central coast as yet another atmospheric river arrived Monday with the potential to wallop the state’s swamped farmland and agricultural communities.

The Pajaro River’s first levee rupture grew to at least 400 feet (120 meters) since it failed late Friday, officials said. More than 8,500 people were forced to evacuate, and about 50 people had to be rescued as the water rose that night.

Still, some stayed behind in Pajaro, an unincorporated community that’s known for its strawberry crops and is now mostly flooded. The largely Latino farmworker community there is already struggling to find food with so many roads and businesses closed in the storm’s aftermath.

“Some people have nowhere to go and maybe that’s why there’s still people around,” resident Jorbelit Rincon said Monday. “Pretty much they don’t know where to go and don’t have money to provide for themselves.”



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/california-storms-atmospheric-river-flood-37859295c926b976de21a236783b6bf4

[Achilleaze]

1. G.O.P. climate-change lies FAIL to block floody rupture in farmville

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Since the governor signaled that they (in CA) need to retain some of this water for future use,

to prep for future droughts, etc., where are all of the 100 water trucks, constantly going back and forth between the flooded areas and places like Death Valley (and dumping the water there)? Think of how much water they could migrate out of the flooded areas, reduce the negative impacts of the flooding by 100 trucks worth' of water day in, day out.

I'm just jesting here, but the governor does have a point in trying to retain as much of this water as reasonably can be. Who knows when such a watershed (pun intended) event like these rain events in CA will happen again?