FLOOD VICTIMS GIVEN OK TO RETURN HOME : FLOODWATERS RECEDE ON 2ND DRY DAY.Byline: Steve Lawrence
Steve Lawrence (born July 8, 1935) is an American singer, perhaps best known as a member of a duo with his wife Eydie Gormé. Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The rain stayed away from flood-ravaged Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern for a second day Saturday, giving hope to tens of thousands of evacuees Resident or transient persons who have been ordered or authorized to move by competent authorities, and whose movement and accommodation are planned, organized and controlled by such authorities. waiting to get back to their homes. Officials kept a wary eye on levees as rivers swelled out of their banks with water draining away after nearly a week of storms. President Clinton issued a disaster declaration Saturday for 37 counties in California The U.S. state of California is divided into fifty-eight counties. Counties are responsible for all elections, property-tax collection, maintenance of public records such as deeds, and local-level courts within their borders, as well as providing law enforcement (through the county and 13 in Idaho. He had declared northern Nevada a major disaster area on Friday. ``Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have lost loved ones loved ones npl → seres mpl queridos loved ones npl → proches mpl et amis chers loved ones love npl or their homes and businesses in these terrible floods,'' Clinton said in a statement from his vacation retreat in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Between 100,000 and 125,000 people had been kept away from their homes with some 34,000 staying in shelters. Most of those evacuated were from Sutter and Yuba counties north of Sacramento, where levees broke under the pressure of high water, said Carl DeWing, a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' . On Saturday afternoon, some 50,000 residents from Yuba City and surrounding towns started heading home after a mandatory evacuation order for the region was lifted. Meanwhile, a new mandatory evacuation order was issued Saturday evening for an area south of Meridian in western Sutter County after a levee levee (lĕv`ē) [Fr.,=raised], embankment built along a river to prevent flooding by high water. Levees are the oldest and the most extensively used method of flood control. broke at Sutter Bypass. Some 2,000 residents could be affected, emergency officials said. And about 10,000 county residents south of Yuba City still were kept from their homes. In Marysville, mandatory evacuation was to be lifted at 9 a.m. today. But Yuba County towns outside Marysville, including Linda and Olivehurst, were to remain evacuated. Doyle Young said he and his family left their home in Marysville, next to Yuba City, just 10 to 20 minutes before a levee broke about a half-mile away. He later saw television footage of his caretaker being rescued from the roof of the two-story house. ``I never got to go back,'' Young said. ``We lost everything,'' Nona Quigg said of the Marysville house she shared with a friend. They were away on business when their house was flooded to the rooftop, and had no flood insurance. The flooding was ``like a bad dream,'' Eleanor Jolliff said at a shelter in Modesto. ``When I got here, for about two hours, all I wanted to do was cry.'' Only a chance of scattered light showers was forecast during the weekend over most of the West Coast states, with drier weather expected next week. No significant rainfall was reported Saturday in Northern California. Despite the improved weather, much of the water dumped by four major storms still has to drain through the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, and reservoirs were filled to overflowing. ``We've got to get some empty space in those reservoirs in case we get another storm,'' said Bill Draper of the State Department of Water Resources. ``Every day we have high waters, levees are at risk.'' In Modesto, the Tuolumne River, gorged by water rushing out of the Sierra Nevada, was washing through the southern edge of the city 15 feet above flood stage. More than 1,000 homes were flooded and evacuations were ordered for some 3,000 Modesto residents. The city's sewage treatment plant was knocked out of service. At First Baptist Church First Baptist Church may refer to many churches: Canada
``We're scared to death,'' Bowen said. ``We've got five kids. We've lost everything we own. We just don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what to do.'' Early Saturday, two levees broke in a rural area west of Modesto, 78 miles east of San Francisco in the state's Central Valley, police spokesman Kelly Huston said. A handful of residents were evacuated from farms in the area. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--color) The Tuolumne River, which crested 15 feet above flood stage, spills over into a housing tract on Modesto's southern edge. Associated Press (2--color) A relief worker surveys flood damage in Ceres in central California, where runoff from the Sierra Nevada is causing problems. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times |
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