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There will be standing water on the roadway. It will be windy and it will be messy. Thats your tuesday morning. See you back here. Bill, thank you. Crews in the Santa Cruz Mountains have their work cut out for them. For every mudslide they clear another pops up. Ktvus ann rubin live near saratoga where part of highway 9 is closed. Reporter crews have already cleared this section of road once but more rain means more mud. And they say it could take a week to get this road back open. It is like deja vu. Once again a mudslide is forcing a road closure on highway 9 near 35. Once again, granite Rock Construction is attempting to clear it in the pouring rain. We just keep coming back to refix everything. So its kind of painstaking beg out here. Reporter granite rock is under an emergency contractor, caltrans, and is trying to get the road back open butt wont be easy. Nearb ....
Month alone. So it wont take much to cause problems. They are sad sort of, the bay area is known for barely getting a chance to drain and rain is making a strong return. Creeks and streams are expected to rise again as february settles in as drippy as january. I love it. I hear people complaining about it. And how many years of a drought . Reporter the north bay native is reminded of growing up here. I remember in high school when they needed to shut it down and you dont hear that anymore up until this year. With the steady rain and it is pretty slippery out. The first responders, the weather will mean more calls and more crashes. This one is two cars on 101, fortunately no injuries. That is probably about four to five in the last few hours. Most of them are weather related, people you dont see so fast and losing control of their vehicles. Reporter the rainfall totals this season already top what this region would usually get for an entire year. The sandbagstations have replenished all ....
We will start in where we have the flooding in and around napa and sonoma. Saint helena. The napa river is expected to go above flood stage by nine this morning. Expected to reach almost 19 feet. Flood stage is 16. You can expect flooding. Going through today. Its expected to go down tonight. For the napa area its expected to reach just above flood stage about noontime today. Minor flooding expected in the napa river in the lower areas. Be careful. A widespread Flash Flood Watch until four this afternoon for ponding on the water. Mudslides and we are seeing it. Rapid rises on the streams, creeks and rivers. Here is where we are experiencing flooding for today. Sonoma. Our creeks are flooded. Here is a look at where we are seeing more along the creeks. Sonoma and shellville. We are seeing some flooding again with areas along river and the napa creek. North bay being hit hard by this system. Also a flood advisory in the east bay. ....
Time since the river or the lake level has gone down below that spill way that caused so much trouble. As long as it doesnt go back up to there things should be okay. I want to show you something. We are in downtown oroville and they are trying to keep the Feather River from getting higher. Within its banks and out of the normal flood planes this is acceptable flow. What they had earlier was greater. About a third greater and they couldnt allow that to continue so they opened up the full throttle so to speak on the water they were letting out despite the damage at the bottom of the spill way. But what they are really trying to do at this point in time is just get a handle on all of this. Get the river level down so that the im sorry the lake level down so there isnt a problem with it as more rain comes in. In fact here is what officials had to say. There is no water that is flowing over the emergency spill way at this time. Thats a ....