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Storms swell northern California rivers

Mudslides and flash

floods concern to the south

Wednesday,

December 28, 2005; Posted: 9:52 p.m. EST (02:52 GMT)

 

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A drenching winter

storm swelled rivers in northern California to their highest levels in seven years, causing power outages and forcing

some residents to evacuate.

Flood warnings were in effect for the northern half of the

state after the storm swept through Tuesday and Wednesday.

" It's been several years since we've had this widespread of

flooding, and we're not done, " said Rob Hartman of the National Weather

Service's California-Nevada River Forecast Center in Sacramento.

The last significant flooding in the region was during the

El Nino year of 1998 and a year earlier, when three people died after levees

collapsed north of Sacramento.

The danger is lower this time because there is relatively

little snow in the Sierra Nevada to be melted by the warm rains, officials said.

More

rain predicted for weekend

More storms were forecast for Friday through the New Year's weekend. The system

expected to spread farther south by Saturday and potentially cause mudslides,

debris flows and flash floods in recently burned areas of Southern California,

Hartman said.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/12/28/flood.warnings.ap/index.html

 

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