More than 900 Santa Cruz County homes were destroyed during the CZU Fires last fall. Many former residents remain out of their homes today.
Santa Cruz County Spokesperson Jason Hoppin says construction crews continue in their efforts to rebuild in many mountainous burn areas, including Boulder Creek and Davenport. But the workers say a lack of water and power is causing delays in the rebuilding process for many displaced residents.
Some construction crews say they are overwhelmed by the demand for their work in the burned areas.
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California released a new plan today (Thursday) outlining how the state will allocate vaccines to education workers. That, as Gov. Gavin Newsom continues to push to reopen more schools to in-person instruction.
The governor announced last week that at least 10% of the state’s vaccines would go to education workers starting in March, which translates to roughly 75,000 dedicated doses a week.
Today (On Thursday,) his office released an overview showing how those vaccines would be distributed. Each week, the state will provide 75,000 doses to county offices of education for distribution. Teachers and other education workers will get single-use codes to make expedited appointments online.
If that many vaccines do come through, it could be a matter of weeks for California’s 320,000 K-12 public school teachers to be inoculated.
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Starting on Monday, Cal-Trans crews will be working to fill the gap at Rat Creek so they can re-build the Highway 1 south of Big Sur. That after the January 29th storm led to debris flow from the Dolan Fire washing out a 150 section of the coastal highway. Officials estimate that Highway 1 in that area will re-open to travelers early this summer. This “enhanced fill” option also involves replacing the main drainage system at rat creek with an over-sized main culvert, a secondary culvert, and several smaller overflow culverts closer to the highway grade. The redundancies are designed to help the highway withstand future debris flows, and enhance the resiliency and sustainability of the highway against coastal erosion.
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Watsonville-based Joby Aviation expects to “go public” soon. Part of that will be Joby Aviation merging with reinvent technology partners. Joby Aviation is working to create commercial passenger service using electric aircrafts that take-off and land vertically. Joby has also partnered with ride sharing app Uber to share platforming space for arial ridesharing, which they plan to have operational in the U.S. in 2024. The company also plans to start construction on a manufacturing facility at the marina municipal airport, as part of its recent partnership with Toyota.
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