Declared a state of emergency following last decembers storm. People here are hoping that since this storm is supposed to be spread out over a few days, they wont be flooded this time. Patty dunlap is filling sandbags for her 87yearold mother faye who moved here just in time to experience the december storm which flooded her new home. I came down from palm springs, its a little different up here. December was a bit surreal, with a flooded safeway parking lot turning into a river for rafters, nearly eight inches of rain in a matter of hours caused this creek to overflow. Swamping the business district. You can see on the bottom here, the shelf, this is where the water came up to. We got pretty walloped. We had 18 inches of water that went all the way back. Came in like a tide. This time the owner is ready with sandbags bringed by the city. Officials have cleaned the creek and storm drains. Public works will be on hand. Were scheduling staff over the weekend to monitor the event and make