While the images in Santa Cruz County may not be gigantic enough to catch the eyes of astronauts in space – as other areas are known to have done – local experts say there’s no shortage of beauty to behold in the county by the coast. (Shmuel Thaler – Santa Cruz Sentinel)Īn exceptionally wet winter has fed dormant seeds resting in the region’s previously parched soil and has helped produce a massive proliferation of blooming flowers that have adorned the state from top to bottom. Poppies and wild radish flower along a trail at Wilder Ranch State Park. It must be “superbloom” season in California. Noses are runny, eyes are itchy and the landscape is suddenly painted with massive amorphous streaks of orange, yellow and purple. "And now to get hit with this again, any opportunity we can we need to look for making our infrastructure more resilient.SANTA CRUZ - The rain has subsided and the sun is out. "We were still digging our way out of the repairs from the 2017 storms, I think we were about two-thirds of the way through that," Supervisor Manu Koenig said, referencing similar storms in February of that year. Army Corps of Engineers has already approved the replacement project. The levee section to be repaired is showing signs of seepage, according to the county, and will eventually be replaced. The county announced Wednesday that it would begin repairing and reinforcing the Pajaro River levee system, adding temporary support and structure to the levee in an area that is roughly one mile from the confluence of the river and Salsipuedes Creek. Most recently, the storm that hit the county on Sunday and Monday forced the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents living near the Pajaro River flood basin, which was under a flash flood warning by the National Weather Service at the time. The emergency declarations will help the county qualify for federal disaster relief aid after President Joe Biden approved a federal emergency declaration on Monday. KPIX 5 First Alert Weather: Current Conditions, Forecasts, Alerts For Your Area So this is unprecedented but not unfamiliar territory. "In 2017, at that same rain gauge, we had over 50 inches of rain in six weeks. "We've received over 23 inches of rain in the last 10 days," Reid said Tuesday before the county Board of Supervisors. Neal Waters/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images 7 and do not include damage estimates from individual cities.Ī view of damage on the road after storm and heavy rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley in Scotts Valley, January 09, 2023. Those figures are also likely less than the total amount of damage, according to Office of Response, Recovery and Resilience Director Dave Reid, because they are only current through Jan. SANTA CRUZ - Santa Cruz County supervisors approved two local emergency declarations Tuesday for the winter storms that have battered the county in December and January.Īccording to county officials, the storms have wrought upwards of $21 million in road damage, nearly $7 million in park damage and upwards of $1.2 million to the San Lorenzo Valley Water District's water distribution infrastructure.
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