[UPDATE 7:25 p.m.] Tuesday’s Roads: Flooding, Slides, and Snow

Flooding at Elk River Road near Wrigley Road.

Flooding at Elk River Road near Wrigley Road. [Photo from Humboldt Bay Fire]

With more moderate to heavy rain predicted today across the Emerald Counties by the National Weather Service, roads should be ugly again. Expect flooded streets and roads.

Meanwhile in northern Trinity County, expect heavy snowfall through Wednesday afternoon on mountain roads. Hwy 3 will likely be affected. Hwy 299 could be impacted, also.

Heavy rains have slammed Mendocino County and several roads such as Hwy 1 are closed at various points.

Flooding outside of Eureka in the Zanes Ranch area.

Flooding outside of Eureka in the Zanes Ranch area. [Photo by Humboldt Bay Fire–see more of their images here.]


UPDATES are in green below.

Major Highways–Here’s What We Know: 

At this time, most major roadways are open in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties though chains are required on some.

(Most information below is from Caltrans’ Quick Map. If you are heading to Oregon, check their similar site.)

    • Interstate 5: Open
       I-5 again  this morning. [Photo from Caltrans Traffic Cam.Click here for the latest image from the Lake Abrams traffic cam.]

      I-5 is mostly clear this morning. [Photo from Caltrans Traffic Cam.Click here for the latest image from the Lake Abrams traffic cam.]

      • Windy near Weed. Travel is not recommended for high profile vehicles
    • Hwy 1: Mostly open.
      • Closed at the Garcia River due to flooding, no estimated time of reopening.
        State Route 1 at Gasker Slough north of Point Arena.

        State Route 1 at Gasker Slough north of Point Arena. [For the latest Caltrans Traffic Cam image click here]

    • Hwy 3: Mostly clear
    • The road at Hayfork Summit is clear.

      The road at Hayfork Summit is clear. [Photo by a reader this morning]

      • Closed at Scott Mountain
      • Chains required 7 miles north of Weaverville to Trinity Center area. UPDATE 7:25
    • Hwy 20: Open
    • Hwy 36:
      • Closed west of Forest Glen due to slide. UPDATE 7:28 p.m.
      • One-way traffic due to slipout 1 mile east of Dubakella Mtn.
    • Hwy 96: Open
    • Hwy 101: Open
    • HWY 162 (Covelo Road): Open
    • Hwy 169 (Klamath): Open
    • Hwy 199: Open but Caltrans Message board warns motorists to carry chains. The road is snowy as of 3:25 p.m.
      Hwy 199 near the Oregon border. (See Caltrans Traffic Cam for latest image)

      Hwy 199 near the Oregon border. (See Caltrans Traffic Cam for latest image)

    • Hwy 211: Open (Check out how high the Eel River is on the Fernbridge live cam)
    • Hwy 254 (Avenue of the Giants):
      • Closed between Holmes Flat Road to Bear Creek Bridge
    • Hwy 255: Open
    • Hwy 271: Open with the exception of a scheduled closure for bridge work .03 miles south of McCoy Creek just south of Piercy.
    • Hwy 299: Open: wintry weather. Carry chains.

       

      Snowy but the road is clear on Berry Summit. [Image from Caltrans. To see the latest image, click here.]

      Snowy but the road is clear on Berry Summit. [Image from Caltrans. To see the latest image, click here.]

      • The road on Oregon Mountain. [Image from Caltrans. To see the latest image, click here.]

        The road on Oregon Mountain. [Image from Caltrans. To see the latest image, click here.]

Humboldt County Roads:

Here is what we know as of yesterday. We’ll update when more info comes through.

  • Blue Slide Road: One way controlled traffic due to slide.
  • Chambers Road: Closed due to flooding.
  • Coffee Creek Road: Closed due to flooding.
  • Holmes Flat Road: Flooded.
  • Hillside Drive in the Fortuna Area: Slide impacting traffic. UPDATE 3:41 p.m. 
  • Jack Shaw Road in Kneeland: Closed due to flooding UPDATE 11:13 a.m.
  • Johnson Road in Hydesville: Flooded.
  • Kneeland Road at mile marker 3: One way controlled traffic due to slide.
  • Mattole Road at mile marker 11.73 near Petrolia: One lane due to slip out. UPDATE 11:13 a.m.
  • McCann Ferry: Closed today. Due to unsafe river conditions.
  • Meridian Road: Closed due to flooding.
  • Metropolitan Road, between Rio Dell and Fortuna: Flooded.
  • Myrtle Avenue at mile marker 4.78 in Eureka: Flooded. Update 7:25 p.m.
  • Old Briceland Road: One reader reports: “Almost impassable…
    4WD can make it barely…Passenger cars can’t.” UPDATE 9:50 a.m.
  • Peninsula Drive in Samoa: Flooded. Update 7:25 p.m.
  • Shively at mile marker .5: One way controlled traffic due to slide.
  • Telegraph Creek Road at mile marker 1.1: Closed due to failed culvert. UPDATE 11:13 a.m.
  • Wild Cat (Mattole Road): One way controlled traffic due to slide.
  • Wilder Ridge Road at Mattole Road: Flooded.
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Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane
5 years ago

Thanks for this info and updates.
What a cold wet winter eh?

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Crane

Yes. Thank you. I might have made a frustrating trip without this information.

UnCommonSense
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UnCommonSense
5 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Crane

Kym, the pics from Berry Summit and Oregon Mountain are identical.

Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

🕯Thank you Kym for always keeping us updated on our surrounding areas. 🖖

Does Organic need testing for Glyphosate?
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Does Organic need testing for Glyphosate?
5 years ago

Glyphosate is the activate in Roundup. Hundreds of local people use Roundup to control weeds. Question is with the high uncontrolled waters could the Roundup be infecting local organic farmers fields and diary farmers fields contaminating a variety of products sold as organic. Is organic labeled Farmers Market vegetables not organic? And what about oysters? Have their products been tested for Glyphosate? They make claims their Farmers Market products are tested for GMO’s. I would think Glyphosate is much more dangerous.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago

One of the problems with GMOs is that companies tend to create them to resist the pesticides they sell, allowing a farmer to use more of their product to kill the heck out of everything but their GMO product. GMOs can, but don’t always, increase pesticide use. It’s important to know.

LTL
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LTL
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

You are 100% wrong.

Really, everything you said is incorrect.

Really?
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Really?
5 years ago
Reply to  LTL

Really? For real? Are you really sure?

LTL
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LTL
5 years ago
Reply to  Really?

I’m super duper serial!!

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  LTL

http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/roundup-ready-crops/

“While Roundup Ready crops themselves have not caused environmental damage, they are certainly responsible for the Roundup-intensive weed management practices that have accompanied them. The environmental benefits – reduced tilling and reduced use of more toxic herbicides – are fading because the weeds Roundup was supposed to control have sprung up in revolt.”

LTL
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LTL
5 years ago
Reply to  Guest

See, you are learning. Good job.

GMO crops do not increase pesticide use at all.

If anything they can reduce pesticide use thru BT engineering.

Guest
Guest
Guest
5 years ago
Reply to  LTL

Jaw dropping misinterpretation. How does having to return to pre GMO pesticide use and frequent tilling – “the weeds Roundup was supposed to control have sprung up in revolt”- equate to less pesticide use? Like everything else that is intended as a short cut to good practices, GMO is the nuclear arms race of farming- an endless attempt to keep ahead of the enemy. I shuddered when I heard of BTh being engineered into plants as I knew that shortly it would be made less effective when the susceptible pests were killed off in industrial farming, leaving the resistant ones to grow with less competition.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/01/492091546/how-gmos-cut-the-use-of-pesticides-and-perhaps-boosted-them-again

“Farmers who are growing genetically modified, glyphosate-tolerant soybeans, meanwhile, have been using more weedkillers than their non-GMO neighbors. In fact, that gap has been widening in recent years.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/business/gmo-promise-falls-short.html

“But an extensive examination by The New York Times indicates that the debate has missed a more basic problem — genetic modification in the United States and Canada has not accelerated increases in crop yields or led to an overall reduction in the use of chemical pesticides…

At the same time, herbicide use has increased in the United States, even as major crops like corn, soybeans and cotton have been converted to modified varieties.”

+ 30,000 gallons of sewer poop
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+ 30,000 gallons of sewer poop
5 years ago
Reply to  LTL

You buy a train car load of Round-up-Ready soy seed, and you buy a tanker load of Round-Up. it’s a package deal. True, round up ready GMO seed without the Round-up is not inherently dangerous. It is just not available by itself, without Round-Up to spray on it.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

Patented man-made phony seeds to go w/the toxic mixture.

Round-Up Ready Radishes -Yum.

The Farmer Who Beat MonSatan
Percy Schmeiser looks back 20 years at fight against Monsanto
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/percy-schmeiser-monsanto-legal-battle-1.4771673

three cents.

Orange Sunshine
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Orange Sunshine
5 years ago

How about getting off the blog and doing some real research. It’s actually rather easy. If you’re looking for correct information from commenters here instead of seeking the truth, please don’t ever vote.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

“Hundreds of local people use Roundup to control weeds”

~i did not know this. Brain-dead people are a danger to others and themselves. I find it hard to grasp that with the www, for the most part, available, who in their right mind would choose man-made (idolatry), over nature? Salt worked on the Roman roads. Vinegar kills weeds. Duh.

I can’t believe we’re even discussing this – AS IF there’s an option!

From March 9, 2015 http://prn.fm/he-holds-the-patent-that-could-destroy-monsanto-and-change-the-world/

Update:
https://dailypositiveinfo.com/a-man-holds-the-patent-that-could-destroy-monsanto-and-change-the-world/

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago

According to the data I have seen, glyphosphate tends to bind to clay particles and eventually degrades. I don’t think it floats around forever like DDT did. I could be wrong, hell, I remember this one time back in ‘96 . . . . .

I have used it and may again depending on the data and £¥~\€§~… .

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

~there’s no sitting on the fence of the plantation.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

Does Organic need testing for Glyphosate?,

http://thephaser.com/2019/02/monsantos-roundup-weed-killer-found-in-popular-beers-wine/

from DAHBOO77:

MONSANTO’S ROUNDUP WEED KILLER FOUND IN POPULAR BEERS & WINE VIDEO:

Enjoying a cold beer may not be so pleasant now that testing has revealed 14 top beers, including Coors Light and Heineken, contain traces of glyphosate from Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. Scientists looked at five wine brands, one cider and 15 top beer brands including Coors Light, Miller Lite, Budweiser, Corona, Heineken, Guinness and Stella Artois and found glyphosate in all but one, Peak Organic IPA. Tsingtao was found to be the worst beer for glyphosate, with 49.7parts per billion (ppb), and of the five wines, the 2018 Sutter Home merlot had the highest levels of glyphosate, with 51.4 ppb.
Learn More: https://www.rt.com/usa/452486-monsant…

Paul
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Paul
5 years ago

Finally a wet season like we used to get, although a little later in the season than the old days. By my rain gage, 88.8% of the total annual normal to date (37.3 inches). Even some decent snowpack. Some bad with the good though; more rain means more brush growing, and more serious fires later in the summer. Oh well, time to upgrade my fire protection to include a more proactive approach. Here’s what I’m going to try.

http://www.onestopfire.com/sprinklers.htm

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Paul

~not even close to ‘what we used to get’. I don’t mean in ”

Humboldt STORMS -BLEW IN!- CAME DOWN!!- BRANCHES & TREES hit the ground!!! – NON-STOP!!!! – LIGHTS OUT – FOR DAYS!!!!!

This is just piddly-ass, toxic Agenda run-off.

So far, this is the first year i haven’t been out hooking up my sump pump, from hose, to hose, to hose. The moat just fills up sporadically and then goes down. -i’ll probably end-up eating these words w/in the next four weeks. (dk)

Orange Sunshine
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Orange Sunshine
5 years ago
Reply to  Paul

As of 7:30 this morning, the NOAA website states that our area is now at 103% of normal for rainfall for the season which began in October 1, 2018.

Ullr Rover
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Ullr Rover
5 years ago

103% of “average” based on rainfall recorded within a known timespan at a known location. “Normal” is an agenda driven word.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Ullr Rover

Agree. I hate it when weather folks say “normal” vs. “average”. Drives me nuts and that’s a short drive. Normal is anything within a few inches or degrees of long-term average. I drove my agenda off a cliff.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

” . . . rainfall for the season which began in ”October 1, 2018” ??? The ”season” for measuring rainfall begins July 1, like since the late 1800’s.

I think we’re the ‘practice policy people’. Smear the excrement (CMMLUO) here, far and near, so it can reverberate tyranny throughout the land, border to border . . . “Sanctuary County” still LMAO over that Hooah.

~lets move New Years where it belongs. The motion, and movement of the planets dictates that the first day of the new year is July 26 – Mayan calendar. Thirteen months, 28 days each, one day ‘out of time’ July 25. Maybe we could assign the months better labels than October (hex 8), rather than the 10th month of the weird-ass Gregorian calendar.

Does anybody really know what time it is? –Chicago

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

I think that was changed to October 1 to reflect the actual rainy season which is the same basic idea for moving New Year’s Day that you suggest. It’s more practical to reflect the reality of nature than our artificial notions of natural cycles.

Burma Shave

Orange Sunshine
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Orange Sunshine
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

Sorry Barry, but you’re mistaken. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, aka NOAA, changed the season to October 1st to September 30th several years ago. It’s not a conspiracy or anything nefarious. It used to start on July 1st just like many fiscal calendars. Oh hell, why do I even try? Just put the foil back on…

Central HumCo
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5 years ago

~thank you for your input. I did not know when it changed. Feel free to share your in-depth knowledge in here any time.

Orange Sunshine – you’re ID doesn’t fit, imho.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Central HumCo

You’re most welcome. Don’t mention it. This is how we learn, through a conscientious and respectful exchange of thoughts and ideas with Kym always there to control the bitter angels of our natures.

I also love being humble. Ain’t it grand? Together, we’re way more humble than the rest of the hoi Polloi that post here shamelessly.

It’s possible that O.S. Had a life-changing, religious experience on LSD, thus his/her handle. I mean, I just read about it.

Brian
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Brian
5 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Put 3 sprinklers on my roof with a dedicated reservoir and gas pump this summer.

Your house-survival confidence level goes up quite a bit afterwards. Good luck.

Brian
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Brian
5 years ago
Reply to  Paul

Birds eye

Angie
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Angie
5 years ago
Reply to  Brian

Good job! Proactive

I like stars
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I like stars
5 years ago
Reply to  Brian

Nice! Great idea & way better than just hoping for the best.

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Brian

~three cheers.

Goober
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Goober
5 years ago
Reply to  Brian

Very cool. What made you decide on PVC pipe? Cost?

Brian
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Brian
5 years ago
Reply to  Goober

Short answer: Research and development.

I was trying different “sprinker” methods and needed to save money.

My first design was horizontal slits down the PVC line. I was hoping for an arched wave flowing over the roof. That failed for a few reasons.

Sprinkler heads was the fallback plan.

So in the future, with some design on mounting, I would do steel.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Brian

Very nice. Seriously. I assume your water supply pipes are buried or otherwise fire-proofed.

Brian
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Brian
5 years ago

First 1000 gallons are protected by sprinklers.

10,000 more on backup just up the hill.

House sprinklers are a backup plan in themselves. They’ll keep me from looking back at my home as I have 300′ of Firehose and seperate pump for the real threat.

Prep is key to making it out of the shit. No matter what you do.

Good ole days
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Good ole days
5 years ago

Yep someone yesterday said the weather feels like it was in 1980s. Can definitely remember not seeing the sun for weeks in arcata.
Its part of what makes our area beautiful and hey nothings free, i always think of hard winters as the trade off to getting to live in such a beautiful place. Its good to be challenged, feel uncomfortable and remember we are not in control. To me thats a blessing, it makes you more self sufficient too. Buy some rain catchment tanks, youd have your water for the year and then some by now.

Get those emergency kits full folks and be ready to be home for weeks. This winter is just a pre-cursor of whats to come, the next 5 years winters are going to be even more intense. Its a scientific model not too hard to understand. Plus we’re getting some decent sized earthquakes this winter.

shak
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shak
5 years ago
Reply to  Good ole days

Dust off the old umbrellas fellas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UmaFTEIZ84

Mr Right
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Mr Right
5 years ago
Reply to  Good ole days

What “scientific model,” the unproven fallacy of “manmade global warming?” Crazy Al thanks you for buying his book. Climate changes, poles flip, asteroids hit. That’s nature, not fraudulent “science.”

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Good ole days

AND, if you ever lived some place like Ohio which really got socked this year, you realize that heavy rains beat single digit temps and blizzards.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Good ole days

Heavy rain and frequent earthquakes are nothing new for this area and have been recorded since the earliest Euro-American settlements. NOT new. I remember the ‘major ‘76 drought and the 1980-3 flood cycle when water coming off Mattole hillsides was unbelievable. Look up the major flood-drought (or vice Versa) cycle in California 1860-4. Not new.

Dr. Dengler will absolutely tell you that the ‘quakes are not new.

Climate is always changing and we’ll see where this trend is going but, altogether now: Not New.

Thanks for updates!!❤
Guest
Thanks for updates!!❤
5 years ago

Old Briceland on the Beginnings side, ya???
Can still picture the salmon i saw in that creek, so awesome,
if they end up in road please help them back to creek.
Theres video from Washington state of creek full of fish going over the road, it happens!

nines
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5 years ago

It SO does! Seriously weird to find a huge, usually dead, salmon in the middle of the road. I needed to be told about how they sometimes over jump the culverts. So for sure get that puppy back into the stream if it’s alive when you find it.

Truly. Even if you think the stream is so close to not even a stream, the salmon still run in it until their bodies are halfway out of the water. It doesn’t seem feasible, but that’s what they do.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  nines

When I first got here in the early ‘70’s there were way more fish in the Van Duzen than now. While working on the ranch on Starvation Flats, you could legally keep two steelheads and watch more go by. In heavy rains, fish would swim up a seasonal creek in the meadow and spawn. It was painful to watch the fry die as the creek dried up. Yeah, I wish I had done more.

I’m hoping the plethora of stranded salmon is a sign of increasing numbers, more water, and successful spawning. Like when more dead gray whales was a sign of increasing numbers, not extinction.

Festus
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Festus
5 years ago

Jack Straw Road, Kneeland. That’s funny. It’s Jack Shaw.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Thanks for all the updates.

Obliviously
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Obliviously
5 years ago

Kym,
Surprised Bald Hills Road is not on your list. At times it is only route to coast for Hoopa Orleans area due to road closures.

Lost Croat Outburst
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Lost Croat Outburst
5 years ago
Reply to  Kym Kemp

Biggest problem on Bald Hills Road is drunk drivers. Used to be, anyway. Plenty of competition these days.

Debbie
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Debbie
5 years ago

How is Hookton doing with the rain coming down again?

Manders
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Manders
5 years ago

Howard Heights is currently unpassable

Alice Kimtu
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Alice Kimtu
5 years ago

Kimtu Road is flooded at the low spot, as of 7:35am on Weds, 2/27.