AT FIRST LOOK, the great storm didn’t live up to its pre-rains hype. But by Monday, especially inland, considerable damage and even controversy about the reason for that damage, was being assessed. There was some flooding in predictable places, and Highway 128 is still closed as of Monday morning. But the Navarro always closes 128 in the big rains because it rises rapidly in the narrows northwest of Flynn Creek Road. Four hours of rain, up and over its banks it goes. Willits flooded where it always floods, around East Commercial Street near the County Museum. Ukiah? According to KC Meadows at the Journal, “The question lots of inland people are asking is, Why didn’t the Army Corps reduce releases out of Lake Mendocino? There’s plenty of room in the lake for lots more water. By not releasing so much so much water from the lake flooding in areas of Ukiah like Oak Manor may not have occurred.”
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