This is our back lot,
downtown Sacramento off of Broadway.
We all arrived this morning to
this Thunder, rain, wind blowing.
I shot this video.
I could barely open the back door
of The Newsroom because the wind
was pushing me in and and many,
many, many people are dealing
with this who have no power.
But it was really, really
severe at 3:15 this morning.
Yeah, we heard it coming down.
On the roof really loud.
Nearly 19,000 smud customers
still dealing with outages.
Keep in mind last night this was at 28,000.
More than 100 smud teams are working
to repair damaged power lines.
I saw five or six utility trucks
on my way in this morning.
Arden and Carmichael and Land
Park and Florin are some
of the hardest hit areas.
All right, take
a look at this. The PG&E outage map
showing many areas still in the dark.
They are working to turn the power
back on for people impacted by
the New Year's. Weekend storm?
Yes, some people still don't have
power these back-to-back storms,
making it very difficult for
not only residents, but crews.
So with this, we
are constantly watching for school closures.
This morning, at least five campuses
will be closed in the Sacramento
Unified School District because
they still don't have power.
You can see those on your screen.
The rest of the district is open.
Elk Grove Unified has several
schools that are also closed.
They are listed on your screen.
In the meantime,
all of Stockton Unified School
District schools remain closed.
This morning. They're all closed.
Yesterday, just into our newsroom.
Turner Academy will be closed.
However, all other schools will be open in
the Lodi Unified School District once again.
ABC 10 has team coverage monitoring
this awful deadly weather.
ABC 10s Bridget Pioro and Mark S Allen
are live out in the elements to show us.
The damage that's happening as we speak.
First,
let's go to ABC 10 meteorologist
Rob Karmark and Jordan Tolbert,
who are dealing with what
we're seeing right now.
Rob, one thing we didn't mention,
Tahoe Truckee unified out
on a snow day today, and
it's snowing very, very hard right now.
And let me just tell you something.
You know, yesterday was extremely
busy and this morning you probably
were woken up by the weather.
Either it woke you up because it was
raining hard or you heard Thunder,
saw lightning, or your phone
buzzed with an emergency alert.
Because we had not one but two
tornado warnings from the Weather
Service early this morning.
That's why I'm backing up the radar to
show you how this all came together.
This is 3:00 o'clock in the morning.
This is roughly when Walt shot that
video that we showed you as this line
started to move out of the coastal
range and really pick up steam
right in the middle of the valley.
Then as this line of thunderstorms
matured and we had a full blown huge
line of very strong thunderstorms,
two of which had some rotation
indicated on radar,
we will have to wait and see
if there was an actual tornado.
Respond within some of these cells
and I'll show you where those
were a little bit later on.
But in any case, huge areas of downed trees,
power lines down and outages like
we showed you because of the
strong line of wind that moved
through with these thunderstorms,
gusts up to 55 miles an hour or stronger.
Now it's been absorbed
into higher elevations,
producing very heavy snow
and lowering snow levels.
This is where we are with
radar at the moment.
We've got some light rain about
to move in through Sacramento,
dry and quiet right now in Stockton Modesto,
dry and quiet.
Right now this does help with the
early morning commute with the roads
are still wet because of what moved
through in the middle of the night,
very heavy snow,
white out conditions,
just treacherous travel,
not advised whatsoever.
Over the next several hours at
least and we are again starting
to see a bit of a break.
But let me tell you something folks,
if it's not raining now that does not
mean that that's the forecast for the
rest of today because this low is
sitting right off the coast producing
more waves and moisture pushing through.
You can even see some bolts
of lightning off the coast,
which means more rain on and
off through much of the day.
Even more thunderstorms later on today.
So that's the forecast for the rest of today.
We even have more rain coming in
tomorrow with a break finally by Thursday.
Now,
Jordan,
yesterday was one of the all time
bad travel days on the roads.
It was just one of those situations.
How does today look?
You know, today, actually yesterday and
today are two of the days where I've
seen the most in terms of on our website.
You know, we see things that law
enforcement post in terms of Rd.
hazards, crashes, things like that.
Yesterday and today are some of the most Rd.
hazards and crashes.
I've seen since I started
here actually six months ago.
So this morning there are quite a
few things to talk about today.
Very busy weather morning, which means
a very busy traffic morning as well.
Wind is one of the big things we're
watching today at the I5 bypass.
This is where we're going to see
some really windy conditions.
So this is dangerous for
high profile vehicles,
cars in general that can get
moved around by the winds.
So just be very careful,
leave a lot of room if you're
driving near a semi truck today.
Yolo Causeway also another place where
we're seeing really windy conditions.
And This is why we're seeing a big rig
of blocking southbound 5 at Yolo Bypass.
It overturned over there.
And that's where we find
ABC 10s Mark S Allen.
That's where he's live along
I-5 at the Yolo bypass.
That's between Woodland and Sacramento.
So Mark, I can hear the wind already.
What are you seeing out there right now?
Yeah, I'm telling you,
just as you talk about the wind,
it picked up significantly.
I could see how easily a high profile
vehicle like a bakery could be
knocked over and indeed that's what
happened just north of the airport.
I5 S If you'll take a look,
we are on I-5 South now.
Caltrans has
the freeway closed at this point.
It's probably another quarter
mile until the incident
and then if you turn around here,
it's exactly what you
don't want to be a part of.
It's just car after car after
car blocked up for miles.
So if you're getting into
Sacramento coming I5 S,
you're going to have tremendous difficulty,
try to find an alternate route and
try to go South and beat it into town.
Back to you alrighty.
Thank you, Marcus Allen.
Stay safe out there.
And in terms of alternate routes,
like he was saying,
what you can do is go from the woodland
area down 113 and then you're going
to take eastbound 80 if you're headed
towards Sacramento this morning.
So that's another one of those alternate
routes that you can utilize today.
And another thing besides when
we're dealing with flooded roads
and also ponding on roadways.
Northbound and southbound 99 at Dillard Rd.
Those on and off ramps have been
closed really since New Year's
continuing to see closures as
crews work to reopen that area.
But the impending rain and windy
conditions are just continuing to
cause delays and issues out there.
So now we're going to bring
things over to our Bridget Borlo.
This morning.
She's in Wilton at talking about
evacuation orders happening there.
Good morning,
Bridget.
Good morning, Jordan.
Thousands remain evacuated in
Wilton due to the flood dangers,
and I'm standing in several
inches of floodwaters as you
can see here on Grant line Rd.
And there's even debris in the road
stretches all across the lanes here.
And this is actually a better forecast
than what we've been seeing in days
past where this whole road was
flooded due to several rounds of rain.
Now this is, I should add,
a closed Rd.
Some are not adhering to the orders.
This is an evacuated zone.
Over 5000 people live in Wilton.
Everyone was told to leave because
things can change at a moments notice.
We just see a lot of rain this morning.
That's only adding to this and
more is on the way.
I want to show you also some of
the damage caused by the wind.
This area seeing wind gusts up to
60 mph throughout the week and
this past weekend and this is
the result as you can see down.
Power lines, getting onto homes, cars.
We saw a lot of toppled trees
through this area.
So homeowners have a big
cleanup operation underway,
cleaning all that debris
scattered across neighborhoods.
But a lot of them aren't even
here to be able to tend to it.
And a lot of them are listening
to the orders they're getting out.
But they say they are frustrated.
They say it's a tale of whiplash.
On New Year's Eve,
they were told to evacuate because
of that strong.
Storm then the evacuation was lifted,
only to return.
They once again were told to leave
because those powerful storms
rolled in once again.
Take a listen to some residents we spoke to.
Things to go when the wind was
picking up, we could see the
poles starting to really move.
And then we were actually
looking out the window and it
snapped in half and you know,
you could see it hit the
eucalyptus trees and blow up.
It really is quite the scene to
show you what's happening here.
Earlier in the newscast we showed you that
power line that was almost falling over
because of how strong the winds are now.
The only bright spot, Walton Bria,
is that the Cosumnes River,
which was a problem spot,
appointed concern last week when it
reached the second highest level.
Ever since we started recording it.
That has since gone down a water level.
Wise. It's now cresting 3 feet
below what we saw last week.
Walt Bria
yeah, one thing about mandatory evacuations.
Because you really don't have to go.
It's just that nobody's gonna go in and
get you when it gets really serious.
So you're sort of on your own.
So. OK. That's Bridget be orlow,
who is in the Wilton area.
Bridget. Thank you.
So this morning, evacuation orders
have been lifted in Vacaville.
Leisure town Rd.
Is back open.
Residents on that road made more
than 40 calls for help with the
flooding and the downed trees. We
want to thank you for all of
the images that you've sent
in over the past few days.
Take a look at this. Unbelievable.
Flooding on I-80 in Sacramento.
This is at the winters exit
near Del Paso Heights.
Lynette Meeks shared this with
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