The ees are waterogged. Rated, and the next break idays away anim kari wx chra kris cu a mudslide in the los gatos north bay, also the Santa Cruz Mountains, near creeks and streams, youll have to closely watch those water levels as the next round of some heavy rain moves in. We will talk more about the timing and a look ahead to the dryer weather and the weekend forecast. Thats coming up in about ten minutes. All right, kari, a mudslide in the los gatos mountains and the mountains a bochld los gatos wiped out three family homes. Those homes, one of them was knocked off the foundation and a woman was trapped with nowhere to go, and nearly no way to call for help. Nbc bay areas bob redell is live there, and bob, this womans story is really frightening. She didnt even know if the First Responders would get to her. Reporter and when you get a look at the property, you can understand why. Good morning to you, kris. This happened in los gatos deep in the Santa Cruz Mountains behind me where
Chief meteorologist bill martin has the forecast along highway 17 tonight. Azenith . Reporter well you can see the mud slide behind me. Caltrans is using the heavy equipment to stabilize the hillside. Chp is hoping to open one northbound lane tomorrow morning. Commuters heading from santa cruz to san jose. Theyre advised to take alternate routes just in case. Caltrans crews are working to remove rocks and mud covering the northbound lanes of highway 17 near lion hill road. Its the largest hillside this winter. Thats about 100 dump truckloads somebody decided to dump over the hill all at once. Caltrans plans to bring in a specialized excavator tomorrow to safely access the slide and remove debris from the top down. We are dealing with the fact it is still raining, the slide, the terrain, the traffic. Reporter at 10 00 in the morning the mud slide shut down highway 17 in both directions. Half of the Mountain Side came crashing down filling up the northbound lanes and spilling into the so
Am hearing it may be closer to 9 pm or 10 pm tonight. 2 of the 4 westbound lanes are closed and it has been like that since early this morning. The commute from the valley to livermore was rough. Slow, very slow. It has been painful. The problem happened shortly before 3 pm this morning when this huge pothole opened up just before the greenville exit, about 15 cars got flat tires running over it. Repairing the pothole required caltrans to close 2 of the for code lanes and the misery began for drivers, traffic backed up some 12 miles to highway five back. It is now almost 1230 and i am really late. One man was late for an appointment at the hospital. It has been almost 3 hours. How long should the drive take . About 40 minutes. They say the rain is mostly to blame for all the recent potholes. It actually squeeze the water into the asphalt and the repeated squeezing of the asphalt caused it to break apart. Reporter we will be back live at 9 pm and 10 pm for the target reopening and is so
Instead of stalling. It is slowing down. These things change from day to day. Our system is on its way. It has slowed down. It is Still Holding tremendous amount of moisture. Once it begins to arrive, it is going to give us another round of 24 amounts. Things are picking up from santa rosa maybe not so much other locations yet. There are areas you are not going to have any rain whatsoever. You cant get around it later on. Numerous flash flood watches or warnings part of Russian River. Also the napper really river. The north bay peninsula Santa Cruz Mountains and also the wind advisory kicks in. That will take us until 4 pm. 5060 miles per hour. I cannot over emphasized how this is coming up on the west north southwest. Holding so much moisture 200 . That tells you what is happening. When that comes up that will hold more moisture. Very warm system. Temperatures will stay in the 60s here. I dont think we will see Much Movement between the low and the high. It will be a rainy day. Little
The Santa Cruz Mountains might be later this afternoon. Beginning to finally pick up off the marin coast. There are many watches and warnings of flooding including the napper realtor. Russian river and lake county. Be advised these are going to continue to be updated rapidly. Some areas not getting some. It looks a little ominous but not as much is this right here. That will be the source of the heavier rain. We have to wait for this to start working its way and from the west and southwest. It holds so morris so much pleasure. Wind advisory goes until 4 pm. San jose due south and these west facing areas especially Santa Cruz Mountains marin county and Russian River are in store for heavy rain. I cannot emphasize how deep this goes. Rain and went not so bad this morning. It picks up and takes us until later this afternoon and tonight. Driving is not going to be optimal. Usually when it rains we have a lot of crashes that occurred. People driving too fast for the conditions. And people r