After Storm Flooding:1Evacuations Advisories to Avoid Oxnard Roads
After storm flooding, evacuations and advisories to avoid Oxnard roads were issued.
Following an overnight flood that flooded streets in Port Hueneme and Oxnard due to heavy rain, authorities issued evacuation orders and advised residents to avoid the roads.
An overview of Thursday’s unfavorable weather:A rainy day results in flooded roads and evacuations.
After Storm Flooding:1Evacuations Advisories to Avoid Oxnard Roads
Authorities raise Order of evacuation for Port Hueneme around 4 p.m. on Thursday, the Hueneme Bay community’s evacuation order was lifted.
According to authorities, the evacuation order that was issued early on Thursday morning covered about sixty homes. About twenty people were brought to Oxnard College’s emergency shelter.
The shelter was closed by late afternoon, according to officials, and the evacuees had made other plans.
Officials: Receive free sandbags.
Rain is predicted through Friday, according to the Ventura County Fire Department has twenty of its stations equipped with bags and sand.
vcfd.org/sandbag-stations has a list of locations. Visit vcfd.org/news/video-sandbag-basics to watch a video that demonstrates how to use sandbags.
Additionally, Oxnard officials announced that on Thursday and Friday, residents could pick up free sand and sandbags at the Oxnard City Yard, located at 1060 Pacific Ave.
After Storm Flooding:1Evacuations Advisories to Avoid Oxnard Roads
Ventura County totals for storm rainfall as of 3 p.m. on Thursday, the Ventura County Watershed Protection District’s preliminary figures indicate the following five-day totals for rainfall:
Inches Camarillo: 1.82
Canyon Matilija: 8.06 inches
Benchmark: 2.7 cm
Ojai: 4.42 inches
Oxnard: 5.65 inches
Hueneme Port: 4.94 inches
Santa Paula: three inches
2.79 inches in Simi Valley
Inches at Thousand Oaks: 2.57
Ventura: 4.26 inches
Moisture from a downpour falls in a month.
On Thursday morning, amid a thunderstorm that began early, Oxnard saw more rain in one hour than it usually does in a whole month.
3.18 inches of rain fell in the Oxnard area between midnight and one in the morning.
According to the National Weather Service, the city receives about 2.5 inches of rain on average in December.
Locals saved during the flood
According to county firefighter Andy VanSciver, about 20 residents of the Hueneme Bay community were brought to an emergency shelter early on Thursday morning.
A MedCat, a type of tactical rescue vehicle, was used to save seven of them. Ten more animals were brought into the MedCat, including dogs, cats, and a bird.
Following the severe storms in January, the MedCat was given to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office earlier this year, according to VanSciver.
After Storm Flooding:1Evacuations Advisories to Avoid Oxnard Roads
The rescue car was donated and was estimated to be worth $350,000 by the nonprofit Direct Relief in Santa Barbara.
According to VanSciver, about a dozen swift-water rescues were also carried out for individuals who were left stranded in cars on roads.
Sheriff’s officers, county fire hand crews, and teams from the city departments of Oxnard and Ventura all responded.
Senior community severely damaged by floods the coastal city of Port Hueneme seemed to have sustained the most damage from the storm. In a nearby senior community, about sixty homes were evacuated over night.
After Storm Flooding:1Evacuations Advisories to Avoid Oxnard Roads
As the rain persisted throughout the morning, workers were trying to clear drains and maintain water flow, according to Port Hueneme City Manager James Vega. There was also an ongoing damage assessment.
“Very quickly, we had a tremendous amount of rain, and it overflowed our drainage infrastructure,” Vega stated. “There was significant flooding in certain parts of the city, especially in the Hueneme Bay area.”
Officers reopen the roads in Oxnard.
By mid-morning on Thursday, the majority of the streets in the Oxnard area that had been closed due to flooding had reopened, according to authorities.
Oxnard Boulevard eastbound is still closed at Statham. Officials advised drivers to exercise caution as rainy conditions are predicted to persist.
There will be more rain soon.
Some parts of Ventura County may continue to receive heavy rains from the slow-moving storm through Friday morning, following periods of intense rainfall early on Thursday.
According to David Sweet, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Oxnard, showers and thunderstorms were still developing in mid-morning on Thursday based on satellite images.
“We anticipate that this endeavor will proceed through tomorrow and tonight,” he stated.
There could be an extra one to three inches of rain in some places, according to Sweet. The rain should start to lessen by Friday night.
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