Humboldt County, where a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on Dec. In El Dorado County, east of Sacramento, a stretch of Highway 50 was closed because of flooding. The state transportation agency reported numerous road closures, including Highway 70 east of Chico, which was partially closed by a slide, and the northbound side of Highway 49, east of Sacramento, which was closed because of flooding. Some rainfall totals in the San Francisco Bay Area topped 4 inches. The past three years have been California’s driest on record. The rain was welcomed in drought-parched California, but much more precipitation is needed to make a significant difference. The Stockton Police Department posted photos of a flooded railroad underpass and a car that appeared stalled in more than a foot (30 centimeters) of water. The Mammoth Mountain Ski Area reported numerous lift closings, citing high winds, low visibility and ice. The Sacramento agency released a map of 24-hour precipitation through Saturday morning, showing a wide range of totals in the region, from less than an inch in some areas to more than 5 inches in the Sierra foothills. “We’re seeing a lot of flooding,” Carpenter said. One ski resort south of Lake Tahoe closed chair lifts because of flooding and operational problems, and posted a photo on Twitter showing one lift tower and its empty chairs surrounded by water. Weather service meteorologist Courtney Carpenter said the storm could drop over an inch of rain in the Sacramento area before moving south. Videos on Twitter showed mud-colored water streaming along San Francisco streets, and a staircase in Oakland turned into a veritable waterfall by heavy rains. 101 - one of the state’s main traffic arteries - was closed indefinitely south of San Francisco because of flooding. The California Highway Patrol said a section of U.S. With rain continuing to fall, it could threaten the nearly three-decade old record. Rainfall in downtown San Francisco on Saturday topped 5 inches at midafternoon, making it the second-wettest day on record, behind a November 1994 deluge. Sacramento County urged residents in the unincorporated community of Wilton to evacuate, warning that flooded roadways could “cut off access to leave the area.” “Too many road closures to count at this point,” the weather agency in Sacramento said in an afternoon tweet. Flooding and rock slides closed portions of roads across Northern California. The so-called atmospheric river storm was pulling in a long and wide plume of moisture from the Pacific Ocean.
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