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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (12505)	2/6/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: drmorgan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

so if you're still up, better batten down the hatches, mate. Hmmm, Scrapps usually checks in late in the evening, hope everything is okay. The local (Salt Lake) weather dude said last night you guys were in for five more days of this. That doesn't sound good. Keep the canoe handy. intellicast.com

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (12505)	2/6/1998 9:16:00 AM
From: David Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22053

At least you don't have to be so exact with your aim.

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (12505)	2/6/1998 9:28:00 AM
From: Moonray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 22053

El Nino Wallops California With a New Storm 09:06 a.m. Feb 06, 1998 Eastern SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Northern California residents Friday were bracing for more bad weather after being pounded by two storms attributed to El Nino. Fears about the powerful new front centered on the heart of California wine country, where the rain-swollen Russian and Napa rivers were forecast to surge over their banks in what could be record flooding. Forecasters said there was more to come. Two more storms were expected to hit the coast over the weekend, and there were more forming over the Pacific. On Thursday, National Guard helicopters evacuated hundreds of tourists and residents stranded in the coastal resort area of Big Sur about 110 miles south of San Francisco after landslides cut roads. ''They got about 350 out yesterday and another 60 today,'' said Patrick Murphy of the Monterey County Office of Emergency Services. ''They are also flying in food and water, and a few people who live there want to go home.'' ''We live in Big Sur. We actually really thrive on this stuff. It's a survival thrill,'' said Erlinda Hisock, one local who hitched a helicopter ride home. In the exclusive beachfront community of Carmel, tanker trucks full of drinking water were brought in and city officials warned residents to beware of snakes, which were washing out of the hills and onto the beach. Crumbling hills threatened homes up and down the northern coast, with one neighborhood of half-million dollar houses perched some 300 feet above the Pacific in Bodega Bay north of San Francisco forced to evacuate as huge waves ate away the ground beneath them. Elsewhere, residents rushed to stock up with sandbags, supplies of drinking water and flashlights before the main storm front pushed ashore overnight. The National Park Service closed two of San Francisco's best-loved tourist landmarks -- the prison island of Alcatraz and Fort Point at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge -- because storm tides were making them dangerous. ''The waves have just been crashing over Alcatraz today,'' said Christine Powell, a parks service spokeswoman on Thursday. The National Weather Service said Thursday's storm could dump as much as five to seven inches of rain and bring winds gusting up to 70 miles per hour. Gov. Pete Wilson Wednesday declared a state of emergency in 10 counties around the state after the first El Nino storm of the season hit Tuesday, causing widespread flooding, closing schools, forcing evacuations and cutting power to tens of thousands of homes. At least four deaths around the area have been attributed to Tuesday's storm and the following flooding. As the new front approached, several thousand residents along the lower reaches of the Russian River near Guerneville, about 60 miles north of San Francisco, were urged to pack up and head for shelters as forecasters predicted record flooding beginning Friday. ''We want them to move while it is still daylight,'' said Ann Benton of the Sonoma County Emergency Operations Center. The river, which has a history of widespread winter flooding, was forecast to crest at some 48 feet Friday, 14 feet over flood stage and four feet higher than its last record, set a year ago. A flood warning was also posted for the Napa river in wine country, where thousands of acres of vineyards are waterlogged, and more land and mudslides were expected as saturated hillsides dissolved under more pounding rain. o~~~ O

To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (12505)	2/7/1998 3:00:00 AM
From: Scrapps	Respond to of 22053

Sorry to hear about your roof windows opening up..up and away, bummer. I think we'd already lost power when you posted. We've lost it three or four times in the last 24 hrs., once for 12 hours. It's double trouble because the Well pump was off so no water either. And my bathrooms were filling up also...not with water. I got some fences blown over, a tree snapped off at the top and some roof shingle blown off along with things laying all over the place. I will be out in the morning bracing up some fences before the next one coming in tomorrow afternoon [Oh boy!].