All of Marin County's operated reservoirs were at capacity Wednesday, which could be both a blessing and a curse.
For lots of locals, the nearly-continuous rain is mostly good news, especially after years of drought.
Water was seen rushing down the Nicasio Reservoir spillway Wednesday, a welcome sight for some people who drove to the reservoir just to check it out.
"I can't believe how full it is," resident Nanci Smith said. "This is epic. It's amazing."
It had been at least a decade since the water outside Julie Mullin’s Mill Valley house had rushed this hard or risen this high.
“It came over that bridge,” she said. “It was scary.”
The fright was short lived, but something Mullin will long remember.
“The tide is going down and it’s supposed to stop raining, so I’m feeling better than I was an hour ago,” she said.
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A couple blocks away, on Miller Avenue outside of Whole Foods, Alex was recording the event saying, “I’ve lived here six years and I haven’t seen anything like the uninterrupted downpour and intensity of this rain."
The Emergency Operations Center in San Rafael had a map showing outages, forecasts, winds, and tides. What could look very confusing makes perfect sense to Woody Baker Cohn.
“There are some areas that flood a lot. Ross Valley is one, we’ve got a close eye on that. Mill Valley is another. In Marin city with just one way in and one way out so we are monitoring that very closely,” said the Marin County’s assistant emergency manager.
During a virtual press conference by the California Department of Water Resources Wednesday, the recent series of storms have been recharging reservoirs across the state.
"The overall statewide reservoir storage is about 84% of historical average," said Molly White with the California State Water Project. "Reported out yesterday it was at 81% of average. These storms are continuing across the state to help with our reservoir storage levels."
But there is a downside to the swollen reservoirs: there's nowhere to catch the water that keeps falling.
"The water is actually oozing out of the mountain up here," Smith said. "It's coming out of gopher holes. It's coming out of everywhere. There's rivers, all these streams, natural streams."
