The Russian River is cresting in sonoma county, that means its hitting the highest point of course the river has been over flood stage for hours and will stay flooded for more hours. Wade freed miedman is live with difference. Reporter good evening, dan. It begins to rain once again. Flood stage is 38 feet. Residents say to their eyes, its been going down for quite awhile. One thing we know for certain, cleaning up is going to take along time. This is bad news to everyone except school kids who just learned tonight that classes are cancelled tomorrow. Welcome to lake. Its been awhile from moving to point a to point b presented such daunting challenges. How do you get from here to there . Right now you dont. You dont get from here to there. Reporter its part of the drill in a region where the Russian River floods, road signs became prone to under statement and residents to resignation or maybe indigestion. Tuna fish, beer, you know, the officials. Reporter thats betsy van dyke cut off w
Damage but first lets look to the forecast with spencer christian. Dan, that one storm you mentioned is closing in on us now. You can see a bach of showers and light rain arriving in the north bay now from santa rosa to the golden gate. Here is a wider view of the approaching storm, which is getting much more closer now. Its a light storm ranking one on storm impact scale. It will move in tonight and continue through tomorrow morning expected to produce pockets of moderate rain fall increasing the potential for flooding. It will be a storm with light winds. Starting at 7 00 this evening, by midnight well see more organized area of moderate to heavy rainfall developing offshore and beginning to push to the north bay coastline. By beginning of rush hour tomorrow morning, well see wide spread areas of light to moderate rain and a wet commute for many of tomorrows commuters and will continue into the late Morning Hours before it eases up. Ill give you a look at the sev sevenday forecast in
The canyon. They will help them flee from the flooded homes. We have Team Coverage. Meteorologist mark tamayo is tracking those conditions right now. Still scattered showers paying us a visit on the radar. Take a look. You cant see the rainfall totals and these numbers, we are talking about impressive rainfall and you can see, san ger ron mow, and that 36 ger ron mow and the valley over 4inches and concord and sfo, 1. 25. Here is the check on the river levels as you can see from the Russian River. It has crested and going down thankfully. It is still creeping up and expected to reach 37pound 7 feet in a couple of hours. That is nearly 6 feet beef flood stage. This that is at gurnevillecht and the rir continues to recede. Napa river and napa will be coming down to sixpoint 16. 2 feet. You can see few warnings out there and we have this to talk about. This is a Flood Warning for portions of south, central, Santa Clara County and this is in place until 2 45 this afternoon. That get extend