Santa Cruz County received a pummeling this weekend, with rain and high winds knocking down power cables and causing mudslides to block roads. The mountain areas got 3 inches between Saturday evening and Sunday evening alone. “The ground is saturated with water. The winds started blowing so trees are falling everywhere,” says Wil Wingert of the Aptos Fire Department. He says that the department is “a little overwhelmed” by the number of calls reporting downed cables in Aptos and throughout the county. He encourages local residents to be patient and most importantly, to be mindful of safety measures until the wires can be cleared and power can be restored.
The same is true of mudslides, one of which closed a lane of traffic on Old San Jose Road in Soquel. Cleanup crews with a bulldozer from the county public works department were on the street immediately to clear up the debris and restore the flow of traffic. In Boulder Creek, a tree fell on Highway 9, blocking traffic.
The rain is supposed to ease up today, but the calm is only temporary. A second major storm is expected to hit the region on Tuesday. Read more at Fox35 and the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
