4/10/2023 0 Comments Bbc weather santa cruzOfficials had been working along the levee in the hopes of shoring it up when it was breached early on Saturday morning. The Pajaro River separates the counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey in the area that flooded on Saturday. Mr Alejo called the flooding “massive,” saying it has affected Pajaro’s 1,700 residents – many of them Latino farm workers – and that the damage will take months to repair. Luis Alejo, chair of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, wrote on Twitter: “We were hoping to avoid and prevent this situation, but the worst case scenario has arrived with the Pajaro River overtopping and levee breaching at about midnight.” One video showed a member of the Guard helping a driver out of a car trapped by water up to their waists. Monterey County officials said the break in the levee – upstream from the unincorporated community of Pajaro along California’s Central Coast – is about 100ft wide.Ĭrews had gone door-to-door on Friday afternoon to urge residents to leave before the rains came, but some stayed and had to be pulled from floodwaters early on Saturday.įirst responders and the California National Guard rescued more than 50 people overnight. The footage was filmed on March 17.Authorities have ordered more than 1,500 people to evacuate from a Northern California agricultural community famous for its strawberry crop after the Pajaro River’s levee was breached by flooding. "A healthy seal should be left alone." They concluded that this seal would have returned to the water itself. "Therefore, finding a seal on the beach does not mean there is necessarily a problem and do not chase it into the sea as this may stop it from doing what it needs to do - rest. "Seals regularly haul out on our coasts - it is part of their normal behaviour and, in fact, they spend more time out of the water, digesting their food and resting than in it. The charity added: "If you find a seal on a beach, watch it from a distance. A spokesperson for the charity said: "We didn't pick up this seal in but we did pick up another one that we kept overnight and then released the next day." It is a busy time of year for seals up and down the east coast as they regularly rest on beaches and in harbours. "I was told by someone on the harbour that they had taken it, I think the seal arrived that morning as the tide was coming up." British Divers Marine Life Rescue were called out to the scene but the seal had gone by the time they arrived. "When I came back the seal was gone and I was told that the seal rescue had been with it all afternoon. "I was told a call had already been made to the Sea Life Centre, so I went home and came to check a few hours later. "I came back at 8am the next morning and found it still there and made an update video as I had thousands of people asking for an update. "I phoned Scarborough Sea Life and told them where it was. Kit said: "I came to the harbour to check on my boat and was told by a friend that a seal was on the south slope and it didn't look very well and that he thought it had a poor flipper. He returned to the scene the next day to find the vulnerable animal still hadn't moved from the cobblestones and was still in distress. Kit, 50, found the young seal when he was checking on his boat in the harbour at Bridlington, Yorks., and notified a nearby Sea Life Centre upon discovery. Heartbreaking video shows fisherman Kit Gallagher approaching the poor creature 'crying for help' after the tide brought it to shore. An injured seal was left whimpering after it became stranded on the cobblestones of a harbour for more than 24 hours.
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