24/680 Locals Using Tuesday To Prep For Expected Storm
Residents in our service area are using a break between storms to shore up their hillsides, patch their roofs and fill sandbags in advance of a predicted and potentially destructive storm forecast to slam into us on Wednesday. Hit hard by a storm that arrived and lingered over the New Year’s weekend residents battled widespread…
2023 Arrives In The 24/680 – With Bangs And Sirens
Our brand spanking New Year arrived, rain-washed and crystalline – but not completely untarnished as we humans set about doing what we do: screwing up, mightily. We broke tradition and did not party until our heads pounded, eschewing even our traditional birthday toast to our New Year’s Eve-born ancestor, and ended up working through it…
Mudding, Flooding, Running Creeks And Evacuations – A Helluva Day In The 24/680
Unceasing rainfall pushed local creeks to their limits and beyond, sank more than one SUV and prompted road closures and evacuations as water levels crept into local homes and businesses. Mudslides were reported in Orinda and Danville, flooding caused road closures and admonitions from local officials warning residents not to risk driving and to stay…
Booms, Bad Boys, And Bomb Squads
Getting harder and harder to get any sleep around here as jangled journalists embrace insomnia as a life-long condition and find themselves chasing things that go “bloop” in the night. Lensmen Sean McDonough, Eric Blume and Craig Cannon were out and about in the wet these past few nights, seeing the things photographers see that…
For The Fallen…
No end of the year wrap-up would be complete without a deep scrub of the photo archives and a selection of those images which have touched us in one way or another as we chronicled our 365 days together in the 24/680. This small sampling of the dozens of images we’ve collected of splintered power…
Unwrapping The Post-Christmas HoHoHo…
There’s nothing better than someone bringing you a locally-sourced, homegrown breakfast with fresh-squoze Orange Juice, Mother Pacifica supplying the backbeat and the Cascadia Subduction Zone refraining from any seismic antics while we visit. Odd how the heart rate evens out and the breath comes more easily when we’re on the coast. Riffling through the email…
No Beach And Quiet For Us, Crooks On The Prowl
Eventful night, both locally and on the Lost Coast. Quake rattles the towns of Ferndale-Rio Dell in keeping with “Big News” incidents occurring whenever News24/680 staffer heads north for a little “Beach and Quiet.” Turned into another long night and our newsroom was saddened to hear that 11 people were injured and 2 men died…
Look What Crept In On Little Cat Feet…
Fog: … a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near the Earth’s surface. Fog can be considered a type of low-lying cloud usually resembling stratus, and is heavily influenced by nearby bodies of water, topography, and wind conditions. And it’s here. The Weather Service people…
You Meet The Finest People After A 3.8 Quake
We’re down, the animals stirring and trying to keep warm, REM sleep still far the road – when WHAMMO, a 3.6 Shaker rolls through the East Bay, the 24/680 and… our bed. We go into survival mode, peel the cat claws out of our hide, and take stock – popping onto our Facebook page to…
Car Burglars Wreak Havoc In The 24/680 Friday
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas and car burglars are thankful for any early presents left behind in vulnerable cars – particularly if the item is a nice, juicy laptop or other electronic device. There are multiple reports of at least two sets of thieves at work, making frequent and repeated hits in…