Central California’s Monterey Peninsula could become isolated from the rest of the state Thursday as the Salinas River surges toward an expected moderate flood stage, authorities warned.
To the south of the peninsula, the Carmel River is also surging, with low-lying areas facing evacuation orders.
It could be a repeat of historic flooding that hit the picturesque section of Pacific coast in March 1995, when a storm flooded the Salinas and other rivers, cutting communities off from the rest of California, damaging 1,500 homes and 110 businesses and forcing 11,000 evacuations, according to Monterey County.
The flooding is the result of about two weeks of unrelenting storms produced by what are known as atmospheric rivers, which send slugs of moisture into the western United States from the Pacific Ocean on what is known as
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