Officials order evacuations in high-risk coastal area in latest in rapid series of ‘atmospheric rivers’ to hit state
in Sacramento county along a highway that flooded during the weekend storms, which resulted in at least four deaths.
Among the towns ordered to evacuate was Montecito, where five years ago huge boulders, mud and debris swept down mountains through the town to the shoreline, killing 23 people and destroying more than 100 homes. Waves that were forecast to top 25ft battered the Santa Cruz county coastline south of San Francisco, crashing into homes at the mouth of Soquel Creek in the seaside city of Capitola and knocking out a section of its historic wooden pier. A wharf at the nearby Seacliff State Beach was also heavily damaged.
In San Francisco, mayor London Breed, said at a news conference that the city was “preparing for a war”. Crews cleared clogged storm drains, tried to move homeless people into shelters and passed out emergency supplies and ponchos to those who declined to go.A damaged Valero gas station creaks in the wind during a ‘bomb cyclone’ rain storm in south San Francisco on 4 January.
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