The Russian River is flowing pretty high here in Sonoma County. Weather
report is for more rain for the next few weeks. My winter rain bike is a
Bruce Gordon with Sim Works fenders, and it’s getting plenty of use.
Pictures to follow.
The national news outlets are covering the storms and
I've lived in Sacramento for most of the past 13 years and have lived
through a few of these flood seasons and the drought years in between. The
flood years always feel like welcome relief from the drought but also drive
home just how reliant we are on the levees and infrastructure like the
Oh, and further to Collin's point about the flood risk from channelizing
the river: the Sacramento River is expected to overtop the Fremont weir
starting tomorrow for the first time since 2019, which was before I moved
to town. This causes the river to flow into the Yolo bypass rather than
Its true about the consternation from the public! I was out a few nights
ago to see what conditions looked like on the American River, and at an
intersection some car pulled up next to me, pointed a camera at me and
started in with a bunch of questions about why I was out riding in the
rain.
I used to work for a company that had a data center down there in the
Pocket neighborhood, just across the road from the levee. Never made any
sense to me and supposedly they had plans to dynamite the levee further
downstream to let flood water out in the event of catastrophic flooding of
the
