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California Is Sinking — and Now Could Flood
California is sinking at a historic rate. That sinking, which scientists call subsidence, has damaged flood levees intended to protect hundreds of miles of Central Valley farmland. Some levees near the...
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How a Sandy-Type Storm Could Short-Circuit Silicon Valley
First the good news: The Bay Area has plans in place for a storm as big and bad as Sandy. Could this image from Atlantic City, New Jersey on Oct. 29, 2012 show the Bay Area's future? (Mario Tama/Getty...
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Are Silicon Valley Companies Prepared For a Flood?
Trees have fallen, cars have skidded into power poles, and at different times over the past few days, both Muni and BART have shorted out. But climate scientists say that’s just a taste of what we can...
View ArticlePhotos and Video: King Tides May Give a Glimpse of Bay Area’s Climate Change...
Want to know what the Bay Area coast will look like in years to come? Tides are rising to a their highest levels of the year Thursday and Friday. A rare juxtaposition of the sun and moon is pulling the...
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Report: $100 Billion Needed for California Flood Control
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California endures one of its driest winters, on record, some state water managers are focused on the opposite end of the precipitation spectrum — the one in five residents...
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Wednesday Storm Update: Russian River Surges After Deluge
Update, 7:30 a.m. Wednesday: The California-Nevada River Forecast Center‘s latest estimate of the Russian River’s crest at Guerneville says the waterway will peak at about 5½ feet over flood stage....
View ArticleFlood Sweeps Vehicles and Cabins Down Canyon Near Santa Barbara
More than 20 people escaped injury Friday when a flood swept cabins and vehicles down a coastal canyon as the second in a trio of storms drenched California with heavy rain and brought more snow to the...
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Storm Brings Record Rainfall, Flooding to Southern California
Southern California was pounded with rain overnight as the third and final storm in a series dumped more than 4 inches in some places. Long Beach set a new rainfall record with 3.97 inches, with some...
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PHOTOS: Oroville Spillway Problems, Evacuees and Flooding
Large-scale releases of water are ongoing at Oroville Dam, where the water level has fallen to about 12 feet below the emergency spillway structure that engineers believed was on the verge of failure...
View ArticleLake Oroville: Evacuation Order Lifted, Water Level Falling
The evacuation order affecting about 180,000 residents along the course of the Feather River below Oroville Dam has been reduced to a warning, allowing residents to go home and businesses to resume...
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PHOTOS: Storms Soak California, Triggering Flooding
A series of storms soaked Northern California over the President’s Day Holiday weekend, triggering flooding, mudslides and road damage in its wake. Some communities braced for further flooding as heavy...
View ArticleInto the Flood
Late summer had felt apocalyptic. Raging wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, a deadly earthquake in Mexico, catastrophic floods in South Asia — and hurricanes with innocuous names lashing Texas, the...
View ArticleThe Disasters of 2017
It's been a rough year as California has gone from extreme drought to floods to devastating wildfires.
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