[Grampa Dave]

When we have all these high tides that we started having a couple of weeks ago, some rains to fill in those settlement ponds , lakes or whatever down river like this week, we could have the formula for some very expensive flooding.

Throw in a couple of 12 inch rain days plus really high tides and no place for the water to go down stream and Shazam, we have floods again.

[Grampa Dave]

I just received this warning from My Cast Weather Service:

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David ,

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
FLOOD WATCH
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EUREKA CA
330 PM PST THU DEC 12 2002

...FLOOD WATCH FRIDAY EVENING THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT FOR
HUMBOLDT...MENDOCINO AND DEL NORTE COUNTIES...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WATCH FOR SMALL
STREAM AND STREET FLOODING STARTING EARLY FRIDAY EVENING...AND FOR
RIVER FLOODING BEGINNING LATE FRIDAY NIGHT. FLOODING IS EXPECTED TO
CONTINUE THROUGH SATURDAY NIGHT.

MANY COASTAL CREEKS COULD FILL TO BANKFULL. THE STREAMS THAT COULD
FLOOD FRIDAY EVENING INCLUDE JACOBY AND FRESHWATER CREEKS NEAR
HUMBOLDT BAY...THE TALMAGE AREA NEAR UKIAH...AND FELIZ CREEK NEAR
HOPLAND. THE GARCIA RIVER AT HIGHWAY 1 IS ALSO A CONCERN.

HYDROLOGIC FORECAST MODELS CURRENTLY INDICATE THAT THE EEL...VAN
DUZEN...AND THE NAVARRO RIVERS WILL RISE AND POSSIBLY CAUSE
FLOODING. AREAS OF CONCERN ARE LOWER PORTIONS OF THE EEL RIVER
DELTA...ALONG THE LOWER PORTIONS OF HIGHWAY 36...AND ALONG HIGHWAY
128 NEAR NAVARRO. ALL OTHER AREA RIVERS AND SMALL STREAMS WILL ALSO
RISE AND POSSIBLY EXPERIENCE FLOODING.

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[reformed_dem]

And I thought re-routing the river and the new Third Street bridge was supposed to fix all that. ;-) All that Hwy 29/Trancas construction can't be helping either.