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    California deals with surging rivers, sliding rocks, flooded towns as storm passes

    by Ruben Vives, Susanne Rust and Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times Mar 15, 2023 6 minutes
    Herbeto Estrada rescues his two birds from his home along Salinas Road in Pajaro, California, on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.

    PAJARO, Calif. — Surging rivers. Sliding rocks. Flooded towns.

    The 11th atmospheric river storm of the season left a trail of soggy misery in California as it broke decades-old rainfall records and breached levees this week.

    In the Tulare County city of Porterville, residents on both sides of the Tule River were ordered to evacuate Wednesday morning as levels rose at Lake Success, sending water running over the spillway at Schafer Dam.

    The runoff “expedited the need for us to get out of the area,” Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said in a video update around 1 a.m., adding that about 100 homes lie between the spillway and Road 284. Emergency shelters are open at the Exeter Veterans Memorial Building, Porterville College Gym and Dinuba Memorial Hall.

    Lake Success saw a significant increase in inflows overnight, peaking at nearly 19,800 cubic feet of water rushing in per second Wednesday morning, according to state data. Visalia and

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