{"id":22085,"date":"2023-12-31T20:16:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22085"},"modified":"2023-12-31T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T02:16:31","slug":"evacuation-warning-lifted-for-coastal-california-after-3-days-of-havoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=22085","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation warning lifted for coastal California after 3 days of havoc"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Waves soaring as high as 25 feet slammed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/san-diego\/2023\/09\/12\/climate-change-real-estate-california\">coastal California&nbsp;<\/a>and southern Oregon for three days, flooding homes and businesses, damaging streets and washing away parked cars before subsiding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The latest:<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8220;Surf will be above advisory levels thru at least Sun, making additional coastal flooding possible,&#8221; according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An evacuation warning issued for parts of the coast in Southern California&#8217;s Ventura County&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VCFD_PIO\/status\/1741264278039212044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was lifted<\/a>&nbsp;late on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Showers that lasted days in several coastal areas of California dissipated, and another weather service warning of high surf&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NWSBayArea\/status\/1741215519083200653?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lessened&nbsp;<\/a>to an advisory in the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As of Saturday night, eight people had been taken to hospitals with injuries in Ventura County, the Ventura County Fire Department told Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Our thought bubble:<\/strong>&nbsp;The damaging high waves were the result of a parade of storms lined up across the Pacific, Axios senior climate reporter Andrew Freedman wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Waves as high as 25 feet have been common, with so-called &#8220;rogue waves&#8221; exceeding this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">An El Ni\u00f1o climate pattern in the tropical Pacific helped to give rise to these storms while also slightly elevating sea levels, on top of human-caused sea level rise, Freedman continued. This makes the waves more impactful for communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/12\/30\/flood-california-coast-oregon-evacuation-warning\">axios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waves soaring as high as 25 feet slammed&nbsp;coastal California&nbsp;and southern Oregon for three days, flooding homes and businesses, damaging streets and washing away parked cars before subsiding. The latest:&nbsp;&#8220;Surf will be above advisory levels thru at least Sun, making additional coastal flooding possible,&#8221; according to the National Weather Service. 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