“We’re closed,” said Paul Mallon, operations director for the Mountain Empire School District in East County. Treacherous driving conditions on winding backcountry roads and passes prompted officials to cancel classes in two rural districts. Rancho Bernardo recorded 0.60 inches in the 24 hours that ended at 5 p.m., while Lindbergh Field registered just 0.20. In the South Bay and almost everywhere else in the county, pea-sized hail pelted vehicles and pedestrians Friday, said National Weather Service forecaster Brandt Maxwell. If we can get everybody to sit down and talk to each other about cleaning the channel, that would alleviate the flooding.” “I’m just frustrated trying to get all the organizations together to do the right thing. So he’s out $4,250 a month until his property dries out again.īut Tynan and others who own land or horses in the flood-prone river valley said they have no plans to leave. He has a clause in his rental agreements that if his stables get flooded, tenants don’t have to pay. Thursday’s downpours, which brought the weekly rainfall total in that area to about three inches, caused rising floodwaters to breach a flood-control channel levee and leave about three acres of Tynan’s property under water. In the Tijuana River Valley, Dick Tynan was coping Friday with the third flood in little more than a year at his Kimzey Ranch. Starting Monday, the agency will send out workers to search for and repair potholes caused by the storms. “If there is still work Sunday, we will do that.” “We expect we should be able to eliminate most of these trees by Saturday,” Yousef said. Friday, he said, and seven other teams will be hitting the streets Saturday. The agency received 342 reports of downed trees this week and still had 75 sites to clear, said Hasan Yousef, the division’s deputy director.Ĭrews were scheduled to work until 11 p.m. “We’re booked solid through at least the end of January,” she said.Ĭrews with San Diego’s street division continued to clear fallen trees and limbs from roads and sidewalks. The situation was similar at Preman Roofing in San Diego, said Katrina LeBlanc, the company’s scheduler. In one case, a large tree fell on a home in El Cajon where Clark’s workers had installed a new roof just two weeks ago. Most of the calls were from homeowners concerned about leaks that existed before this week’s storms but became an intolerable problem during the recent deluges, Clark said. “We’ve probably received 70 to 100 calls a day, and we’re a small company.” The telephone rang nonstop Friday, just as it had for most of the week, at Rick Clark’s RC Roofing business in San Diego. But the snow might not be around for long because forecasters have promised at least a couple of dry, sunny days before the next rains arrive.Īcross the county, work crews and contractors fanned out as storm recovery efforts kicked into high gear. The white stuff will still be around Saturday in Julian, the Laguna Mountains and Palomar Mountain. Homeowners around the county were cleaning up even before the last of Friday’s widely scattered rain and hail, and many stir-crazy families found the silver lining in a week’s worth of clouds: snow to play with in the local mountains. storms leave Sierra snowpack above average
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