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The worst flooding occurred on the Feather River on January 2. The river stage height peaked at 50.4 at Nicolaus (2.4 feet above flood stage). Multiple levees broke along the river causing significant flooding to Marysville and Arboga. A levee break south of Yuba City devastated the town of Olivehurst.
Watch: California storm causes fatal flooding as mass evacuations are put into effect. 15:00, Mike Bedigan. 14:47, Louise Boyle. ... the Yuba City Police Department said in a Facebook post.
Many streams reached record flood stages, including the Feather River, Yuba River, American River, Cottonwood Creek, and Butte Creek. The flood caused the uncompleted Hell Hole Dam on the Rubicon River to fail, sending even more water downstream. [7] In total, 375,000 acres (152,000 ha) of the Central Valley was flooded. [7]
The resulting flooding along Coyote Creek forced the evacuation of 14,000 people in San Jose [26] [27] [28] and caused $73 million in damage. [29] City workers reportedly tried to warn authorities of the flooding risk as much as a day before the river burst its banks, but it remains unclear why evacuations were not ordered until the flooding ...
Crews appear to gain good footing against a Yuba County vegetation fire that forced nearby residents to evacuate. The fire was first reported shortly before 5 p.m. along Winding Way, Cal Fire ...
“The fire is approximately 7 acres with spotting a half mile ahead of the fire,” Cal Fire’s Nevada-Yuba-Placer unit wrote on social media at 2:15 p.m. In an update just after 6:15 p.m., Cal ...
The storm's toll on Sutter County was severe. At 12:04 a.m. on December 24, 1955, a levee on the west bank of the Feather River, at Shanghai Bend, collapsed and a wall of water 21 feet high entered the county, flooding 90 percent of Yuba City and the farmlands in the southern Yuba City basin.
Yuba County officials announced in social media posts that zones YUB-E099 and YUB-E043, which are south and west of Oregon House were under a mandatory evacuation order for people in those areas ...