Luis Alejo, chair of the Monterey County board of supervisors, tweeted Saturday that the “worst case scenario” had arrived with the Pajaro River overtopping and a levee breaching around midnight local time.Īt 9 a.m. “It will take some time, particularly with repeated rain events, for the area to dry,” said Bauman. In the meantime, officials said people need to obey evacuation orders. Workers attempted to prevent the levee catastrophe Friday night, but they were “overwhelmed by the flows coming down that watershed,” said Lew Bauman, interim manager of the county’s Water Resources Agency. The flooding has forced local emergency crews to rescue more than 90 people in Monterey County, Sheriff Tina Nieto said in a news briefing Saturday afternoon. Soquel is one of the hardest-hit areas in Santa Cruz County, soaking more than 6.5 inches of rain in certain areas while widespread rainfall was about 2 inches, according to a report from the National Weather Service office in San Francisco.Īs of Saturday morning, more than 41,000 homes and businesses across the state were without power, with about 30,000 of those outages in coastal Monterey County, according to tracking site. “All night long, you could hear, the water is so saturated right and the cottonwoods especially are so weak, you could just hear them tumbling all night long,” Maleta said. “I’ve lived here my whole life, and I’ve never seen the creek go actually through the road,” Soquel resident Nick Maleta told CNN affiliate KGO, and likened the powerful heavy rainfall to a tornado. Emergency crews stand on one side of road - on the other, residents look on. “We are now an island.”Ī photo Watson shared with CNN captures a chaotic scene where a large piece of road is washed out by flood waters while cracked pavement appears to sink into the rushing water. ![]() “This is the one road that leads into town,” resident Molly Watson told CNN.
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