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Hundreds of San Diego homes and businesses were damaged or ruined in devastating floods after punishing rainfall fell Monday during a 'thousand-year storm.'
The San Diego River was flooding, the National Weather Service said, warning that crossing roads would be unsafe. The city fire department said it had rescued at least 24 people from the rushing ...
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria declared an emergency in the city due to heavy rainfall and flash flooding, and the county proclaimed a local emergency on behalf of its board of supervisors.
The river has changed its course several times in recorded history. Prior to 1821, the San Diego River usually entered San Diego Bay.In the fall of 1821, however, a flood changed the river channel in one night, and the greater volume of the flow was diverted into what was then known as False Bay (now referred to as Mission Bay), leaving only a small stream still flowing into the harbor (J. C ...
Navy Base San Diego, south of downtown, reported flooding in the late morning as a thick cell of precipitation moved over the area and put multiple streets and Interstate 15, which leads to Las ...
The Santa Barbara Municipal Airport was closed due to flooding. [73] The Salinas River filled above flood levels, resulting in road closures of bridges in Paso Robles and causing a levee to break near Salinas. [74] On March 10, the levee on the Pajaro River failed, triggering flooding and forcing nearly 2,000 residents to evacuate. [75]
In the San Joaquin River basin and the Delta, levee breaks along the Mokelumne River caused flooding in the community of Thornton and the inundation of four Delta islands. [1] Lake Tahoe rose 6 inches (150 mm) as a result of high inflow. [28] The California flood resulted in 13 deaths, 50,000 people evacuated and over $400 million in property ...
The rainfall put the 14 million individuals living between LA and San Diego under rare high-risk flash-flood warnings. Yesterday, Feb 4th, DT L.A. had 4.10" of rain. Exceeded daily record of 2.55 ...