A sandbagging station will open downtown at 2 p.m. today in
anticipation of the ongoing storms moving through the Bay Area this
week.
A sandbagging station will open downtown at 2 p.m. today in anticipation of the ongoing storms moving through the Bay Area this week.
The third storm hit this morning and brought a little more than an inch of rain to Morgan Hill. Heavy rain and high winds are expected tonight and tomorrow.
The sandbag trailer is set up south of the train station on Depot Street, in the city’s parking lot and will be operated by volunteers who have participated in the Community Emergency Response Training program, or CERT, Jennifer Ponce, the city’s director of emergency services, said in an e-mail.
There’s also a sandbag station at the public works yard at 100 Edes Court, just north of Edmundson Avenue, and another at the El Toro Fire Station at 18300 Old Monterey Rd.
The city is expecting up to .75 inches of rain tonight and as much as 1.25 inches tomorrow morning, Ponce said.
The National Weather Service expects the Bay Area to experience hazardous weather through Monday, according to an alert at their Web site.
The Pacific Ocean’s jetstream will dump five storms total on the Bay Area through the week.
“The big daddy storm will be tomorrow, with stronger winds than we’ve seen today and heavier rain than today. That’s what it looks like right now,”
said Steve Anderson, a National Weather Service weatherman. “This is unusual, where we have five storms a week. During the wintertime, it’s one storm a week or so. It’s pretty unusual to have back to back to back to back to back storms.”
Still, Anderson said flooding will happen but won’t be as bad as it was in October, when a rainstorm brought nearly 7 inches of rain in about 24 hours to Morgan Hill.
“It’s not all going to come down all at once,” he said. “But there will still be some problems out there with flooded roadways, small creeks in the area.”
Morgan Hill Police Sgt. Jerry Neumayer said there was no reported flooding as of about 11 a.m., but the same problem intersections were getting worse: Monterey and Watsonville roads and Monterey at Burnett Avenue.
