we have a kind of a creek that comes out of a canyon near the house and the water comes rushing down when we get a lot of rain. it ll build up the banks a bit. trying to divert the water around the yard. they have been through it before. they know what to do. they are doing it because we are expecting a lot of rain. steve is back. i know you predicted it would be pretty wet. it all depends on where it sets up. that will be the key. everybody will get rain but some may get a lot of rain. may set up north. santa cruz mountains, still to be determined. heaviest on sunday. its clear and cold but that won t last long. let s get to the graphics. you can see right there but temperatures have dropped rapidly and take your pick. 20s for some, 30s for others. even 39, in san francisco. and it s could for many with 20s napa. windsor, kelseyville at a brisk22 degrees. our system is on its way. again there is a lot that has to develop before it has to come together. between now a
yesterday, but it looks like the river is now starting to recede. we still, there are a couple of isolated areas of 8 inches of rain. i saw is one west of windsor, and some really good downpours overnight. we re in between systems, though, and it s moving south and east out of the picture. still some hit and miss rain in the mix here, up into lake county. the sierra manufacture enough, marinerly rain. this is a warm system that s moved through. so look for a lot of rain there. rainfall was okay. nothing spectacular. concord, it was good rain for them, but san francisco be, 1.59, redwood city, an inch and a half. castro valley, over an inch, and san jose finally picked up over an inch. but the gusts were the big story. sfo, 61 degrees. there will be more of a southerly breeze kicking in, because we have another system on the way, but not until late tonight and tomorrow. it s on it way. we get a break here for i think about 12 hours or so, but 50s on the temperatures, mostly
homes. don t put the umbrella away yet. did you hibernate all weekend? we stayed home mostly. i went out saturday. we got an inch of rain in the rain gauge and then four inches saturday overnight and sunday morning. did get a lot of sleet because it s quite windy there in the north way. we need the rain. people lost their lives and as you mentioned, more on the way so not done yet. we re in a break pattern right now. our meteorologist is going to tell us now thank goodness for the breaks. after thursday morning a break into the weekend. there are signs out to the 22nd, very powerful systems to we ll take the breaks we can get. that doesn t mean that is going to happen but the message there s more on the way i would say even after this next system get ready and you can take the break while you can to maybe clean up. it s been a tremendous amount of rain already. healdsburg has had a tremendous amount of rain since january 2nd. a little bit of rain picking up around
because you can t get a signal out of gurnville because people are using their cellphones to talk. not experiencing the same thing, but to see what s going on, we have to go aloft anyhow, so here we go to sky fox 2. as you can see in these aerial shots the russian river is up to its old tricks where the lowest lying areas have been inundated by the most water in a long time. here many folks have left, many had stayed and take a wait and see approach, hoping the roads will reseed giving them access to homes on higher ground. yeah, something you definitely prepare for, but i think the scope of the storm is definitely something the people didn t plan for even in their planning even in their preplanning. the only reason why i m chilling is i m a three-time flood victim. i m just sitting there, doing nothing while everyone is moving. next-door neighbor, everybody is gone but me. looks like it s deeper and doesn t look like it will reseed with the tide. when it went from lo
now to our top stories, people living in low lying areas along the russian river are being urged to head to higher ground. our ktvu crew says some people are following that advice. but many others are taking a wait and see approach. the river rose to 3 feet above flood stage this afternoon and some schools in the area will be closed tomorrow. glf a mud slide on highway 17 crushed a television news van and sent a photographer to the hospital with minor injuries. traffic has been backed up there all day. that was just one of about a dozen mud slides reported in the santa cruz mountains during the past 24 hours. the rain also washed away part of bear creek road a quarter mile north of highway 9. traffic is moving again along highway 1 in pacifica after a mud slide shut down the road for almost 14 hours. the slide was first reported late last night near delmar avenue. caltrans had to shut down all northbound lanes and that created a massive traffic jam. one northbound lane was