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[arethinn]

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/08/breaking-flash-flood-warning-for-southern-santa-clara-county/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/08/bay-area-storm-heavy-rain-pounds-region-flood-warnings/
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/09/highway-17-northbound-in-scotts-valley-closed-because-of-mudslide/

Yikes. Although if 17, 9, and 1 were all closed at various points this morning, I have no idea how my boss Tom got to work, since I thought he lived in Santa Cruz.

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[andros_b]

Glad you all are getting water, but damn.

[arethinn]

Last I looked both lanes of northbound Highway 17 were still closed due to a mudslide, which is slow going on cleanup because of continued rain and downed trees, possibly interfering with power lines. They've got some detour going that uses one of the two southbound lanes. I can only imagine the traffic hell that must be, since 17 often is to begin with. (I don't imagine you're already familiar with the geography but you're a big boy who can Google things :P Basically, winding mountain road.)

Apparently 101 in the south Santa Clara valley was flooded and closed too (dunno about right now), so like, if you live in Gilroy or San Juan Bautista, tough cookies, I guess?

At least the snowpack has doubled in the last week, and is now above normal for the time of year. I am worried, though, that this sort of thing will make people think the drought is all over, when in fact all it means is that we can pull back a little from immediate crisis mode.

Some bits of vineyard in Napa are underwater. Harvest is usually back in September or October, so there's that at least, but I dunno how grapevines take to being nearly submerged :-/