Small towns in Northern California 'marooned' by Russian River floodwaters
FORESTVILLE, Calif. - One of the winter's strongest storms brought flooding across Northern California's wine country Wednesday, with no region hit harder than the town of Guerneville and the Russian River Valley, which has been inundated repeatedly over the decades.
Some 3,600 people in about two dozen communities near the river were evacuated Wednesday by the flooding, which prompted the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors to declare a local emergency. Authorities warned that those who chose to stay in their homes could be stuck for days.
"We have waterfront property now," said Dane Pitcher, 70, who watched from the third-story window of his bed and breakfast, the Raford Inn in Healdsburg, as rising water pooled into a 100-acre lake in front of his property. "We're
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