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Debris flows have damaged portions of the Big Sur area including a section of Anderson Canyon and the Plaskett Creek Campgrounds. It also appears that all that is left of the Mill Creek Day-Use Area is the parking lot....all tables and other infrastructure seem to have been battered and then swept into the ocean. Wind gusts topped out at 66 mph along the Big Sur coast, and 62 mph at Garrapata State Park.
Now that the state’s regional Stay-At-Home order has been lifted, which businesses can (and cannot) re-open is largely controlled by the county’s tier level, or county officials. County officials can make more constrictive rulings than what the tier level allows for, but they cannot loosen the tier restrictions. Santa Cruz, Monterey, And San Benito county officials have all chosen to return to the state’s tier system. All 3 are currently in the purple tier, in which the following are allowed: personal care services at barber shops, nail salons, tattoo shops to operate at limited capacity for indoor operations. Restaurants can also operate with limited indoor dining as an option.
Wineries can operate outdoors while bars still need to remain closed.
People are still being asked not to go more than 120 miles from home, even though the Stay-At-Home order was lifted.
Precipitation is continuing in the Santa Cruz and Monterey areas, and could cause Debris Flows even though most areas made it safely through last night. The current rainfall could add 3-6 more inches to the Big Sur coast totals for this storm system, while adding another 2+ inches in Santa Cruz county. People who already evacuated are encouraged to stay away tonight too, and those who chose to stay home are encouraged to evacuate. In Santa Cruz county, large animals can once again be taken to the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds.
Evacuations remain in place in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties. The website to check for if an evacuation order is in place in Santa Cruz county is community.zonehaven.com, and in monterey county people can google Monterey County Evacuation Map. Only 1 of the temporary evacuation sites will remain open tonight in Santa Cruz county, and that’s the one at San Lorenzo Valley High School, which served about 500 people yesterday and last night. In Monterey county evacuation centers have been set up at Toro Park School on Portola Drive in Salinas, at Chualar Union Elementary School on Lincoln Street in Chualar, at the Carmel Valley Library, which is located at 65 West Carmel Valley Road. These centers are scheduled to remain open 24 hours a day.
American Red Cross staff are on-hand on each site to assist evacuees.
For support in large animal evacuations, call S.P.C.A. For Monterey County or Santa Cruz County S.P.C.A, depending on which county the animals are in.
Some people and horses are trapped, and some others are missing, after a mudslide occurred near the River Fire Burn Scar. The properties involved are on River Road south of Salinas, and the hillside above the road is still considered unstable. Reportedly at least 1 person was hospitalized, and a number of large animals are being rescued from an area that was supposed to be evacuated yesterday. Mandatory Evacuations remain in place in both Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.