Coming from the sky, and it was so loud it was deafening. Believe it. Over sunday night into monday morning, it came up 10 feet in about 8 hours. This was guerneville in the el nino of 1986, after 2 feet of rain fell in 10 days, swelling the Russian River to grotesque proportions. 48. 8 feet that is still a record here in guerneville. How high is 48. 8 feet . Well, you see the old guerneville bridge over there . The water came all the way up to the walkway. Locals still call this the great valentines flood, but there is no romance here not when water consumed this community and caused 40 million damage. River road lived up to its name. Cars looked more like boats. The local delicatessen like a wadethrough restaurant. And heres the center of town. Water flowed so fast that, to cross, residents clung to a rope. Nobody told us nothing. They just said it wasnt gonna flood bad, and my house is, like, now underwater and everything i own, you know . There was no way out for more than a thousa
Kicking off in a few more hours. We have Team Coverage for the 40th anniversary of the marathon. We want to check in with news4s jim handly up early. Hi, how are you . Reporter hi, adam, hi, angie. Were under the cover of darkness. Were on the bridge. As you mentioned, 40,000 participants have signed up. Not all will finish. Some are running the 10k. Most are running the full marathon. Lets bring in the race director for the past 23 years. Rick. Its chilly, but how would it impact the runners . I would say this is ideal. A little bit overcast. You dont want that heat. A little bit of humidity is goo good. When it rains, you still need to drink and hydrate. You forget that sometimes. You do. Somehow you think water is absorbing into your body. Weve got to consume. Reporter runners are made of tough stuff, marines are made of tough stuff. If people are coming down to run or cheer somebody on, what do they need to keep in mind . Really, get out the door now and start moving. When you have
Ewing 28. Dover, 28. On top of the cold we have areas of fog developing some of this is rather dense, especially across the western suburbs, lancaster, reading,. 3. Allentown 2 1 2 miles. Wildwood down to 3 miles. Fog creates due, creates dew, if an area of a walk or parking lot if it looks slick more than likely it is a sheet ofize or glazed over, excuse me. Take it easy on the back roads over the next couple of hours if youre loving in an area that sees the dense fog. A beautiful day, High Pressure firmly in control that means another day full of sunshine, bright blue skies, the day planner coming off the icy cold morning. Lunchtime, 50 degrees, 2 00 p. M. , 52. 4 00 p. M. , 52. Somewhere in between there we should hit our high of 54 degrees. It will get warmer as we head into monday and warmer still in the sevenday forecast. Beautiful stretch of weather on the way, ill have the details coming up in just a little bit. President obama will touch on the San Bernadino shooting massacre
Middens on this morning and winter coat, good idea, it is still winter after all but not as bitter the other day as when we had single digit wind chills. 31 degrees. Sunrise at 7 21. We should see sunshine especially early in the day, increasing included later on but it is friday 50s with 54 degrees as the High Temperature and tonight were down in the 40s. That is why were only expecting, rain bob kelly, overnight. Fire fighters can probably use some rain right now. Take a look at one of my Traffic Cameras here, look at the smoke billowing out of springfield Delaware County. This is one of our Traffic Cameras, at the blue route, 476, right here near route one, that white that is all smoke coming from a fire along ravens cliff drive and old state road. Were trying to confirm what is on fire, a residence, building, shopping mall. Bottom line you can see the the smoke there as i showed you in the background. Of course, that is a a lot of police and fire crews responding to that location t
No major flooding today, but moderate, you have to be careful. Notice how the advisory goes until midnight up around the tidal areas of the delaware bay because the high tides around the river occur later. 56 degrees in philadelphia. 51 in allentown. 50 in reading. 52 in trenton. A little better, 58 in sea isle. Breezes out of the northeast today. Right now we have gusts in the 30s along the shore, but not so bad in philadelphia. Were down to 25mile an hour gusts there and in the teens in allentown, breezy and cool nonetheless. We roll through the day, better than yesterday, in the 60s, but a day for coats. 59 degrees by noon. We spend the majority of the afternoon in the low 60s with a high of 63 around 3 00 p. M. Better temperatures in the exclusive accuweather sevenday forecast. Nydia and alicia ill check that coming up. Thank you. The action cam was roaming the jersey shore look he the latest round of flooding. This was the scene at harvard and ventnor edge wood avenue in ventnor.