When the search resumed at sunrise, divers discovered the car under about 10 feet (3 meters) of water off a rural road near Forestville, the department said. Raging surf destroyed an iconic pier.Ī 43-year-old woman was found dead Wednesday in her submerged car a day after calling 911 to say the vehicle was stuck in floodwaters north of San Francisco, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday during a visit to the scenic town of Capitola, just up the Santa Cruz coast from Rio Del Mar, that was hard hit by flooding creek waters. “The challenge is they’re storms eight and nine in the sequence and the cumulative effect is likely to cause impacts larger than the storms themselves might cause,” Anderson said.Īt least 18 people have died in the storms battering the state. Michael Anderson, climatologist with the Department of Water Resources, said California has been hit by seven storms since the end of December and two more slightly weaker ones were expected before the state gets a reprieve by the end of next week. Now they were scrambling to clean up while simultaneously stacking sandbags and hoping for the best as the rain got heavier. From the San Francisco Bay Area down to Los Angeles, Californians had little time to rest between assessing damage from the last storm and preparing for the next.Įarlier this week, Morse and her fellow residents of tiny Rio Del Mar were ordered to evacuate as hillsides collapsed and massive logs and stumps tumbled down the bloated Aptos Creek from the Santa Cruz mountains into the Monterey Bay. While the rain eased in many areas, thunderstorms led yet another atmospheric river into the northern half of the state and forecasters said the latest system would be followed by more storms this weekend and next week. Cars were submerged, trees uprooted and roofs blown off homes. Morse’s roof was leaking, and along with her neighbors near Santa Cruz, she’s spent every day of 2023 trying to figure out how to keep her house dry after an unrelenting onslaught of violent weather caused widespread damage over the past two weeks. (AP) - Laurie Morse shoveled wet sand into bags in the pouring rain Wednesday, preparing to stack them along her garage in a last ditch effort to keep out a rising creek on California’s central coast, as the storm-ravaged state braced for another round of lashing rains and damaging winds. Join today to save $5 per ticket and pay no online fees.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuīy MARTHA MENDOZA and CHRISTOPHER WEBER (Associated Press) This powerfully acted melodrama, which earned two Oscar nominations, was one of the first films to focus on the cultural divide between black and white in America. Eleven years later, their girls have grown up, and Annie’s light-skinned daughter is breaking her mother’s heart by attempting to pass for white. Annie needs a place to live, so Lora hires her as a live-in housekeeper and sitter, which freeing Lora to pursue her dream of becoming a Broadway star. Widow Lora (Lana Turner) meets another single mother, African-American divorcee Annie (Juanita Moore) at the beach when their daughters play together. “Sirk unleashed a melodramatic torrent of rage at the corrupt core of American life-the unholy trinity of racism, commercialism, and puritanism.” (Richard Brody, The New Yorker) In collaboration with Vassar College’s conference “Quiet as It’s Kept: Passing Subjects, Contested Identities” and Professor Mia Mask, we present a short series of films exploring themes around racial fluidity, impersonation, and assimilation.
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