A ‘Parade’ of Storms Continues to Pass Through the Central Coast with Gushing Rain Totals
John Palminteri
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – With over 30 inches of rain in some areas of the Central Coast since November 1st, this wet weather season is already one to remember for years.
Some of the more intense areas have been San Marcos Pass and Gibraltar Lake.
Another weekend of rain, at times very steady, has arrived.
This, combined with the winter King Tides during the full moon cycle – and there is likely to be more impacts to the coastline, creeks, and some of the two lane highways. Already tons of debris have been pushed out by the runoff and then pushed back on shore with the tides. This includes full sized trees.
Rainfall totals will vary from 1 – 3 inches along the already saturated coast.
The tides will be among the highest the area will experience. Saturday morning about 8 a.m. will be an active hour. Barricades are already up along the breakwater wall near the Santa Barbara Yacht club. Yellow tape is along the sand berm coming in from the west. Much of it has eroded away but underneath in some areas are large boulders.
Just as one crashed boat has been removed from a Santa Barbara beach east of Stearns Wharf this week by Marborg, another is on shore by the volleyball courts.
Friends and passersby who wanted to help the owner Nya Burke, shoveled out sand at low tide and were able to turn the vessel back to the ocean. They wait now, for the high tide to see if it will float and get pulled out.
“It was all the way, like, maybe ten feet over there and then got pushed up. So angle it, anchor it. So when it starts to float, we’ll have an angle out,” said Burke.
One of those helping out has done this before, when he was a kid, helping his dad working for insurance companies.
Dave Abernathy said, “some salvage work up there in Fort Bragg. Sent me in with a line to get it off the beach, you know.”
As they worked on the vessel the Green Flash, he said, “just a bunch of, volunteers right there to dig out a spot where you can turn. Yeah, we’re going to spin around.”
By nightfall it was going the right direction and awaiting the rising tide.