The latest atmospheric river storm to hit California has already been blamed for at least two deaths.
that a group of over 200 school children were evacuated from a YMCA science camp in Boulder Creek Wednesday due to the approaching storm. storms in the last week to reach the drought-stricken state.
County officials didn't have a firm number for how many people were under evacuation orders, but Susan Klein-Rothschild, a spokesperson in the county's emergency operations center, said sheriff's deputies went door-to-door and contacted at least 480 people. Unstable cliffs loom over the Pacific Coast Highway in Dana Point, Calif. as heavy rains threaten to create road-closing landslides.Elsewhere, a 45-mile stretch of the coastal Highway 1 running through Big Sur was closed Wednesday evening in anticipation of flooding and rock falls. Further north, a 25-mile stretch of Highway 101 was closed due to several downed trees.
Evacuation orders were in place in Santa Cruz County's Paradise Park along the swiftly moving San Lorenzo River, as well as in areas along the Pajaro River. Residents who fled wildfires in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 2020 were packing their bags as the towns of Boulder Creek, Ben Lomond and Felton were all warned they should be prepared to evacuate.
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