California Levees Break, Flood Trailer Park
AP reports: “Two levees broke Tuesday in California’s chief agricultural region, flooding a trailer park, threatening other homes in Merced and inundating farmland near Sacramento.”
Water breached a 30-foot section of levee along a creek in Merced, sending up to 18 inches of water pouring through a mobile home park, said Michael Miller, a spokesman for the Department of Water Resources.
Three trailer parks were evacuated, a total of 200 people, said Elaine Post, spokeswoman for the Merced County Office of Emergency Services.
. . .Sacramento had 5.29 inches of rain in March  2.49 inches more than average, according to the National Weather Service. Sacramento, San Francisco, Oakland, San Rafael and Santa Rosa all broke rainy-day records last month.
The rain also is melting snow in the mountains, swelling streams in the Central Valley.
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April 4th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
JUST two months ago, they warned this would happen and the California legislature couldn’t manage to dislodge its cranium from its rectum to even pass laws to fix THIS.
Honestly, we are so on our own if the S really hits the fan out there in Cali…