Northern California continues to deal with record flooding that has killed at least eight people, forced some 14,000 residents from their homes in San Jose and shut down Highway 101 south of San Francisco.
The series of storms, which dumped up to 10 inches of rain on Southern California late last week, roared through Northern California on Monday and Tuesday, according to USA Today.
San Jose has declared a local emergency after record flooding from the Coyote Creek submerged a neighborhood, forcing emergency crews in rescue boats to save 246 residents trapped in their homes, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
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. The dam is located about 15 miles southeast of the first San Jose neighborhood that saw widespread damaging floodwaters Tuesday.
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After five years of drought, the wettest winter in 20 years is wreaking havoc throughout Northern California as residents cope with flood alerts, downed trees, evacuations, power outages and unpredictable commutes, reports the San Jose Mercury News.
Unfortunately, heavy rains are expected again Saturday through Monday according to meteorologist Steve Anderson of the National Weather Service.
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Rescuers travel by boat through a flooded neighborhood looking for stranded residents Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Cars and backyards are flooded in a neighborhood Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Rescuers chest-deep in water steered boats carrying dozens of people, some with babies and pets, from a San Jose neighborhood inundated by water from an overflowing creek Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Heavy storms over the past two weeks caused parts of the shoulder and one lane of westbound Highway 50 give way, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, near Pollock Pines, Calif. Crews have one lane open, of the four lane highway, as they work to repair the hole that is about 40 feet long and 17 feet wide on one of the main routes to Lake Tahoe. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
Rescue crews assist elderly residents in San Jose, Calif. on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Signs block a road which runs into the overflowing Coyote Creek Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Morgan Hill, Calif. Rains have saturated once-drought stricken California but have created chaos for residents hit hard by the storms. The latest downpours swelled waterways to flood levels and left about half the state under flood, wind and snow advisories. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
People stop to watch water flow into the iconic Glory Hole spillway at the Monticello Dam on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in Lake Berryessa, Calif. Water is flowing for the first time in over a decade into the 72-foot diameter hole due to the recent storms in California. The unique spillway operates similarly to a bathtub drain. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
A fallen tree crushes a car outside a residence on Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, in Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles. A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads and opening sinkholes. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Neighbors walk by a fallen tree in Echo Park section of Los Angeles Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. A huge Pacific storm parked itself over Southern California and unloaded, ravaging roads and opening sinkholes in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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