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BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS IS OUT OF MONTEREY COUNTY NEW EVACUATION ORDERS HAVE BEEN ORDERED DUE TO FLOODING CONCERNS FROM THE SALINAS RIVER OFFICIALS ARE NOW TELLING PEOPLE WHO LIVE ALONG THE RIVER FROM MONTEREY BAY TO CHULA RIVER ROAD TO EVACUATE YOU CAN SEE THE AREA SHADED IN RED HERE ON THE COUNTIES EVACUATION MAP. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. I’M ERIN CLARK. DAN GREEN IS OFF TONIGHT THAT EVACUATION ORDER WAS ISSUED ABOUT AN HOUR AGO ACTION NEWS 8 REPORTER FELIX CORTEZ IS LIVE AT THE SHERIFF’S OFFICE IN SALINAS WITH MORE FROM OFFICIALS WHEN THEY ISSUES SOME OF THOSE DIRE WARNINGS. WHAT AARON SHERIFF TEENAGER HOLDING HER FIRST MAJOR PRESS CONFERENCE SINCE TAKING OFFICE LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO AT PRESS CONFERENCE. SHE USED TO WARN ALL MONTEREY COUNTY RESIDENTS THAT THIS STORM COULD BRING MAJOR PROBLEMS AND DISRUPTIONS THE SHERIFF OF REMINDING RESIDENTS OF THE STORM OF 1995 THAT CUT OFF THE MONTEREY PENINSULA FOR THE SALINAS VALLEY SHERIFF NIETO WARNING RESIDENTS. WE COULD BE IN FOR THE SAME KEY TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS PRESS CONFERENCER COULD BE MAJOR ROAD CLOSURES THAT COULD DISRUPT TRAVELING TRAVELING PEOPLE TOWED TOWED TO LIMIT THEIR TRAVELING AT THIS TIME AND OBEY ALL ROAD CLOSURES, BUT THE SHERIFF WARNING CONDITIONS THAT ON THE SALINAS VALLEY COULD BEGIN TO CHANGE TOMORROW AFTERNOON LEADING TO CONCERNS THAT THE VALLEY AND PENINSULA COULD BE CUT OFF. NOW IF ANYBODY WAS HERE IN 1995, YOU KNOW THAT DURING A LARGE FLOODING EVENT THE MARINA OR THE MONTEREY PENINSULA BECAME AN ISLAND AND IT PEOPLE WERE EITHER STUCK ON ONE C1 ITERATING TODAY THAT ANY ORDERS OR WARNINGS THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THE MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE. YOU NEED TO HEED THEM AND PAY ATTENTION TO THEM AARON AND DON’T WAIT UNTIL IT’S TOO LATE. SO IF YOU WANT TO KNOW IF YOU’RE IN AN EVACUATION ZONE, YOU CAN CHECK OUT T
Salinas country schools closed Thursday owed to Salinas River flooding risk
Schools connected some sides of the Salinas River person announced that each classes and extracurricular activities volition beryllium canceled Thursday, Jan. 12. The pursuing schools districts person announced closures arsenic of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday:Salinas Union High School DistrictSanta Rita Union School DistrictWashington Union School DistrictThe determination comes aft the Monterey County Sheriff's Office issued much evacuation orders successful anticipation of flooding on the Salinas River. The imaginable flooding could chopped disconnected roads that link Salinas and the Monterey Peninsula. According to officials, the stream could flood Highway 68 adjacent River Road, Blanco Road astatine the stream crossing and perchance Highway 1, wherever the stream empties into the water adjacent Marina. They expect this to statesman astatine noon connected Thursday, but that could hap earlier oregon aboriginal successful the day, depending connected however accelerated the stream rises.
SALINAS, Calif. —
Schools connected some sides of the Salinas River person announced that each classes and extracurricular activities volition beryllium canceled Thursday, Jan. 12.
The pursuing schools districts person announced closures arsenic of 9:30 p.m. Wednesday:
- Salinas Union High School District
- Santa Rita Union School District
- Washington Union School District
The determination comes aft the Monterey County Sheriff's Office issued much evacuation orders successful anticipation of flooding on the Salinas River. The imaginable flooding could chopped disconnected roads that link Salinas and the Monterey Peninsula.
According to officials, the stream could flood Highway 68 adjacent River Road, Blanco Road astatine the stream crossing and perchance Highway 1, wherever the stream empties into the water adjacent Marina. They expect this to statesman astatine noon connected Thursday, but that could hap earlier oregon aboriginal successful the day, depending connected however accelerated the stream rises.
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