Ski resorts. Good afternoon, im michelle griego. Im kenny choi. We start with breaking news. Chopper 5 live over milpitas right now where a water rescue is under way. Emergency crews are in the area of ranch drive. A man was on the water at coyote creek. Well bring updates later. Lets go to the Storm Watch Team coverage. Roberta gonzales is tracking snow in the bay area mountains and the sierra ski resorts closed because of too much snow. But first, kpix 5s anne makovec is live at the russian liver in guerneville monitoring the massive floods. Anne . Reporter the sun is peeking out here and the Russian River is receding. But as you can see from this mini golf clubhouse here behind me, there is still plenty of flooding in lowlying areas after the river crested yesterday almost 6 feet above flood stage. A walk through floodwaters is like a walk in the park for dave finally freed from his upstairs apartment. Trapped up there for several days. Reporter the first thing he did start helping
Left behind by nearby creeks flooded city streets. In fremont crews are working to clear a mudslide. Rescue efforts in the south bay going on right now to help residents evacuate from their flooded home in hollister. We have Team Coverage of the cleanup underway. Lets begin with jesse in the south bay. Reporter portions of lovers lane is completely submerged. We have seen this scene all day, trucks and other vehicles with high clearance slowly making their way through this portion of the flooded roadway to ferry residents backand forth to their homes. It is the first step in trying to get back to normal. [ indiscernible ] is trying to remove the last remnants of a foot of water that was in his small onebedroom home. Mud caked the floor as the high water marks the line of damage. [ indiscernible ]. I dont know. We have to work on that and figure that out. Reporter this house sits on lovers lane. During the Early Morning hours a storm downpour sent the creek over its bank flooding this n
But they didnt have time. They didnt know what was coming. Reporter it flooded hundreds of acres of farmland stranding livestock and ravaged homes. Matt says the current was too strong to even stand up in. His home was flooded by two feet of water. Today the floors are drying out and the dirty job of cleaning out inches of river muck from all corners of the rooms is just Getting Started. The floodplain ends right in the middle of my little chunk there so its not required for me to have Flood Insurance so i dont because its very expensive and so i gambled and i lost this time. So well see what happens. Reporter theres been a lot of talk about levees. Ranchers used to be able to bury their old farm vehicles in the levees themselves to add stability and weight to the levees but Environmental Services people years ago stopped them from doing that practice and forced them to remove the vehicles from the levees. People say that contributed to the flooding. Reporting live in hollister, len ra
Counting most troubled world remains closed for miles. And it looks like is going to stay that way for at least two weeks. One of napas county road catherine a rockslide came crashing down monday afternoon on silverado trail at pratt avenue. More of the hillside there in saint helena fell. Catherine it appears that most of the wall of rock will have to come down before drivers can safely get through. Just how helpful were the most recent storms theyve been so beneficial. That 40 percent of calfironia is now out of the drought. Grant just look at this video of the lexington reservior. Which is over flowing. But we can find kron 4s dan kerman live in the east bay tonight at San Pablo Reservoir with more on the drought. Reporter its truly been a stunning area. Reporter the recent series of storms filling lakes, overflowing rivers and covering the sierra mountains in snow. Reporter it is at 100 percent capacity. We had a very wet october and one of the web system and our history in effect.
Steve the upside of the downpour reservoirs filled to capacity. Steve both in the bay area and up in the sierra. State water officials telling kron four things are looking up for us youre watching kron four news in prime time. Reporter the series of storms giving california the rain it needs. But causing headaches for neighbors. Steve steve aveson. Pam and im pam moore. Pam tonight. From marin county to guerneville and back to the east bay. Pam we are tracking the trail of destruction left behind. And the work to cleanup and repair the damage. P steve and our team has you covered. Kron4s alecia reid is live in the east bay where there are concerns about a collapsed road. And Charles Clifford live in the north bay where extreme flooding shut down highway 37. Pam but first lets go out to following flooding in guerneville. Reporter there will be opening starting tomorrow at 8 30 a. M. Until 3 30 a. M. And will be open until sunday, january 15th. The water has receded a lot of the streets.