Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads in the Bay Area as a winter storm roared ashore Saturday bringing drenching rain to a parched state as the year drew to a close.
The first storm earlier this week dumped nearly five inches of rain on Mt. Tamalpais and also in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
"My house is near a creek that rises above my house level. And they try to enforce it every year, but we usually get flooding," said King."So, this year I'm a little more concerned." "Friday and Saturday seem like the bulk of extreme weather will be, so we'll look at staffing our stations with more people," said Marin County Fire Deputy Chief Chris Martinelli."If we see creek levels getting up higher that's what will trigger us to staff our water rescue resources.""We are in for an extended wet pattern where these saturated soils won't have time to really dry out," the weather service said.
Avalanche warnings were issued in the backcountry around Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes south of Yosemite.