March 29, 2024
San Jose flood:
SAN JOSE - When the worst of the flooding was over Tuesday, the rampaging Coyote Creek submerged a San Jose neighborhood, forcing emergency crews in rescue boats to save 246 shocked and frantic people trapped in chest-high water in their homes.

Five homeless people clinging to trees near the Los Lagos Golf Course in South San Jose were rescued, a north San Jose mobile home park was inundated, and a section of Highway 101 near Morgan Hill was shut down. With rising waters, 28 horses were stranded at Cooksy Family Stables in South San Jose and at nearby Happy Hollow Park & Zoo in San Jose, ring-tailed lemurs, a tortoise and a cockatoo were moved to higher ground. In the East Bay, an uprooted tree hit two homes in Danville while flooding and mudslides kept Niles Canyon between Fremont and Sunol closed for a second day.

After five years of drought, the wettest winter in 20 years is wreaking havoc on the region. This week’s flooding in San Jose has been caused by the overflowing Anderson Reservoir near Morgan Hill. Coyote Creek, which flows from the reservoir, was expected to surpass the highest flow rates ever recorded since 1950, when Anderson Dam was built.

With clear skies forecast Wednesday through Friday, is all this chaos behind us?

“We’re not done yet,” meteorologist Steve Anderson of the National Weather Service said Tuesday evening.

Heavy rains are expected again Saturday through Monday, Anderson said.

“That means more flooding, more mudslides, more trees down — more of the same,” Anderson said.

San Jose city officials declared a local emergency Tuesday, while Mayor Sam Liccardo expressed frustration that the rescued residents– from nearly 500 houses and apartments near Senter Road and Phelan Avenue — were caught by surprise. He called the flooded the result of a “unique breach” of Coyote Creek that the water district would pinpoint. (Source: San Jose Mercury)
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