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Hundreds rescued from California floodwaters in San Jose
Kristin j. Bender and Marcio j. Sanchez, Associated Press,Associated Press
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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats full of
people, some with babies and pets, on Tuesday from a San Jose neighborhood
inundated by water from an overflowing creek.
At least 225 residents were taken to dry land and rinsed with soap and water
to prevent them from being sickened by floodwaters that had traveled
through engine fuel, garbage, debris and over sewer lines, San Jose Fire
Capt. Mitch Matlow said.
Residents went door-to-door searching for people who needed to leave the
neighborhood and only residents who could prove they had been cleaned of the
floodwaters were allowed to board buses to shelters.
"This is like once-in-a-lifetime," said Bobby Lee, 15, of the water around
him.
He was rescued with his brother and parents, who took clothes, electronics
and some photos from their home in a neighborhood that ended up littered
with submerged cars.
Earlier Tuesday, firefighters rescued five people stranded by flooding at a
homeless camp along the same creek in San Jose.
Firefighters went door-to-door to tell residents to get out of their homes
because the city does not have sirens or another emergency warning system,
San Jose spokesman David Vossbrink said.
The rains were the latest produced by a series of storms generated by so-
called atmospheric rivers that dump massive quantities of Pacific Ocean
water on California after carrying it aloft from as far away as Hawaii.
The latest downpours swelled waterways to flood levels and left about half
the state under flood, wind and snow advisories.
In another area of San Jose, the fire department was called to Coyote Creek
amid reports of as many as 40 people being stranded at a homeless encampment.
That number turned out to be inaccurate and five people were located and
rescued, fire Capt. Mitch Matlow said.
Their condition was not immediately available.
In the Sierra Nevada mountain range, part of Highway 50, one of the main
routes to Lake Tahoe, was in danger of collapsing after a roadway shoulder
gave way following heavy storms, leaving a gaping hole about 40 feet long
and 17 feet wide, Caltrans engineer Jarrett Woodruff said.
Crews opened one lane open Tuesday as Caltrans workers tried to fix the road
failure after numerous mudslides blocked it for days at a time in recent
weeks.
Heavy storms over the last two weeks caused parts of the shoulder and part
of one lane on the four-lane highway give way.
In the San Joaquin Valley in California's agricultural heartland, farmers
used their tractors and other heavy equipment to help shore up an endangered
levee along the San Joaquin River.
Some farmers took their tractors and other equipment to the levee to help
shore it up, arriving to fill a big breach within half an hour of noticing
the break, said alfalfa farmer Tony Coit.
"The farmers ran it like a boss," he said, using soil from the levee itself
to fill in the 30-foot-wide break until they could truck in large rocks for
more substantial repairs.
The water level rose at Lake Oroville for the first time since authorities
ordered an emergency evacuation of 188,000 people more than a week ago after
a damaged spillway caused major flooding concerns.
The rains have saturated the once-drought stricken region and wreaked havoc
for residents hit hard by the storms. At least four people have died in the
storms throughout the state in the last week.
A motorist in Northern California was swept into a creek Saturday during
another in the series of storms and drowned inside her car, the Los Angeles
Times reported Tuesday.
Witnesses had seen the woman driving around signs blocking the road near
Orland, Undersheriff Todd James of the Glenn County Sheriff's Office told
the newspaper.
The current storm system began to weaken Tuesday after dumping more than a
half-inch of rain in the San Joaquin Valley, over an inch in San Francisco,
and more than 5 inches in the mountains above Big Sur over the previous 24
hours, the National Weather Service reported.
Dry weather was expected to return to the region on Wednesday. | f******2
发帖数: 2455 | 2 location，location，location。买房需要注意的三个要素。
这个故事告诉我们，flooding zone的房子绝对不能买，特别是在全球气候暖化（现在
叫做全球气候变化极端化）的时代里 | j******r
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【在 f******2 的大作中提到】
: location，location，location。买房需要注意的三个要素。
: 这个故事告诉我们，flooding zone的房子绝对不能买，特别是在全球气候暖化（现在
: 叫做全球气候变化极端化）的时代里
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