Third Major Storm Moving Into California

Northern California has been in the line of powerful and destructive storms that have been passing over them for the past week. As of late Saturday and early Sunday the third storm system hit the area with pounding rain and strong winds. With as much as an inch or rain falling per hour in some areas trees have been falling down taking out much of the electrical service to tens of thousands of people. Along with the rain has come the swelling from the deluge of rivers across the area. Preparation and weather forecasting have been in effect for flooding of the Napa and Russian rivers, two rivers north of San Francisco with a history of flooding; as well as the Truckee River, near Lake Tahoe. Preparation started on Thursday with city officials had handing out more than 8,000 sandbags and about 150 tons of sand, while Truckee officials had set up an evacuation center in a school district building. On top of that about 2,000 PG&E crews have been working to restore power to the area.

This image was taken November 30, 2012 of a crew from Vaccaro Tree Services removing a fallen tree along Hickory Road in Fairfax, California.

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