Some evacuation orders lifted in San Bernardino County towns hit by debris flows
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Updated 9:41 pm, Wednesday, January 7, 2014
No one should have to evacuate their home due to a debris flow, but those orders now are lifted in cities like San Bernardino County, where the debris flows have cut off residents from their homes.
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No one should have to evacuate their home due to a debris flow, but those orders now are lifted in cities like San Bernardino County, where the debris flows have cut off residents from their homes.
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San Bernardino County officials say evacuation orders of the hundreds of residents of the cities of Redlands and San Bernardino are lifted.
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San Bernardino County officials say evacuation orders of the hundreds of residents of the cities of Redlands and San Bernardino are lifted.
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San Bernardino County officials say some residents in the city of Redlands will be forced to evacuate their home due to a debris flow.
The National Weather Service issued an orange level 1 warning on Wednesday afternoon for California and Nevada after parts of Imperial, San Bernardino and Riverside counties were hit by flood and debris flows and were expected to remain above flood stage until Thursday morning.
“These levels are really unprecedented. It’s a major event that occurs every two or three years. I wouldn’t say that it’s unprecedented; it’s just a very severe event,” said Steve Alexander, a NWS flood forecaster in the San Diego office.
Alexander said it is too soon to determine a flood duration for the area, saying that all the information needed for that has not yet been provided.
He also said in general the NWS estimates are more accurate as they know how long a flood event will last and when the area will begin to recede.
On the other side of the country, flood watches continue for more than three dozen areas in the Midwest and Northwest. There are more than 150 flood warnings in effect in the Southeast. The National Weather Service in Washington says