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Generalpreparation Clearleaves,drainsand gutters Secure loose outdoor ob- jects such as decorations and patio furniture Prepare for extended power outages by having extra water, food, batter- ies and blankets on hand If you flood Contact your local Health Department to de- termine whether it is safe to drink the water coming from your faucets in your homes, especially if the water comes from a well, cistern, or spring Shelter in place The Tehama County Sheriff's Office would urge residents to shelter in place if possible If evacuations become necessary, The Ameri- can Red Cross will open shelters in various places within the county Driving If you don't need to drive anywhere, stay home. Pay attention to barri- cades, don't ignore them or drive past them Don't drive through standing water on roads or in parking lots — roads covered by water are prone to collapse Attempting to drive through water may stall your engine, with the po- tential to cause irrepara- ble damage If you come upon a flooded street, take an al- ternate route If forced to drive through water Do your best to estimate the depth of the water If other cars are driving through, take note of how deep the water is Drive slowly and steadily through the water. Avoid driving in water that downed electrical or power lines have fallen in Watch for items travel- ing downstream Stay off the telephone unless you must report se- vere injuries If your vehicle stalls in deep water, keep in mind that restarting may cause irreparable damage If you can't restart your vehicle and you become trapped in rising water, immediately abandon it for higher ground If you are unable to get out safely, call 911 or get the attention of a passerby. UPCOMINGSTORM Tipsonbeingprepared of rain, with the mountain areas receiving 5-10 inches. There could be between 1 and 2 feet of snow in the areas above 6,000 feet. Sandbags are being made available to the pub- lic for free at the Tehama County Library in Red Bluff at 645 Madison St., in Los Molinos at 8715 Fox St., across from the Corn- ing Fire Station on Fifth Street and in Gerber at 9380 San Benito Ave. The Sheriff's Depart- ment has joined its efforts with Cal Fire, Tehama County Public Works, Te- hama County Department of Social Services, the American Red Cross, Te- hama County Building De- partment, Tehama County Probation Department, Te- hama County Health Ser- vices Agency and Tehama County Environmental Healthy. Storm FROM PAGE 1 By Seth Borenstein TheAssociatedPress WASHINGTON Don't blame man-made global warming for the devastating Califor- nia drought, a new federal report says. A report issued Monday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admin- istration said natural vari- ations — mostly a La Nina weather oscillation — were the primary drivers behind the drought that has now stretched to three years. Study lead author Rich- ard Seager of Columbia Uni- versity said the paper has not yet been published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. He and NOAA's Martin Hoerling said 160 runs of computer models show heat-trapping gases should slightly increase winter rain in parts of Cal- ifornia, not decrease. "The conditions of the last three winters are not the conditions that climate change models say would happen," Hoerling said. But he said the La Nina, which is the cooler flip side of the warming of central Pacific ocean, can only be blamed for about one-third of the drought. The rest of the causes can be from just random variation, he said. Some outside climate sci- entists criticized the report, saying it didn't take into effect how record warmth worsened the drought. California is having its hottest year on record, based on the first 11 months of the year and is 4.1 de- grees warmer than 20th- century average, according to the National Climatic Data Center. "This study completely fails to consider what cli- mate change is doing to water in California," wrote Kevin Trenberth, head of climate analysis at the National Center for At- mospheric Research. He said the work "completely misses" how hotter air in- creases drying by evap- orating more it from the ground. In droughts, extra heat from global warming en- hances the drying in a feed- back effect, Trenberth and others said. But Hoerling said that is less of a factor in California because it is so near the ocean and its rain comes in storms coming off the Pacific. Peer-reviewed studies are divided on whether the drought can be blamed on climate change. Oth- ers published earlier this year point more directly to changes in pressure of the Pacific that blocked rain from coming into Califor- nia, but Hoerling and Sea- ger dismissed them as not adequate. Hoerling, who specializes in the complicated field of studying the cause of cli- mate extremes, in the past has downplayed other sci- entists' claims that regional droughts are caused by man-made warming. How- ever, Hoerling acknowl- edges that climate change is happening, will worsen weather in the future and has produced past studies attributing strange weather — such as more frequent Mediterranean droughts — to heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels. Scientists can't even agree on how bad the drought is. Hoerling said the drought isn't even in the top five worst for California. But a new peer-reviewed study in the journal Geophysical Re- search Letters by research- ers at the University of Min- nesota and Woods Hole Oceanographic calls this "the most severe drought in the last 1,200 years." Deke Arndt, climate monitoring chief for NO- AA's National Climatic Data Center, said by some drought measures, the cur- rent California drought "is slightly more intense than, but still comparable to, the late 1970s episode. I'd put them at 1a and 1b on the list of historical multi-year drought episodes affect- ing California in modern times." Feds: Don't blame California drought on global warming RICHPEDRONCELLI—THEASSOCIATEDPRESSFILE A dock sits high and dry at the end of a boat ramp yards away from the edge of Folsom Lake near Folsom. SCIENCE By Christopher Weber The Associated Press LOSANGELES A raging fire Monday destroyed a mas- sive apartment complex un- der construction in down- town Los Angeles, sending up flames that were visible for miles while raining ash on a large area and snarling rush-hour traffic. It was one of two destruc- tive early morning fires in the city. The other heavily damaged a building that houses multiple businesses in a neighborhood a couple miles away. More than 250 firefight- ers fought the downtown blaze that was sparked around 1:20 a.m. at a block- long building site, Los An- geles Fire Department Chief Ralph Terrazas said. Flames consumed the seven-story, wood-framed structure and scorched ad- jacent high-rises before be- ing brought under control within 90 minutes. The radiant heat was strong enough to burst or crack windows in three nearby buildings that house city and county offices, in- cluding the LA Department of Water and Power. Three floors of one ad- jacent building were dam- aged by fire, and 14 other floors sustained water damage. That building was closed for the day. Embers spewed from the fire landed across a freeway, igniting brush and char- ring a traffic sign. But for- tunately winds were light and did not blow the fire even farther. Portions of U.S. Route 101 and Interstate 110 were shut down for a time as burn- ing debris fell into lanes. Commuter traffic — slow- moving on good days — re- mained jammed long af- ter rush hour, with vehicles backed up for miles even af- ter the freeways reopened. No injuries were re- ported. The burned structure was planned to be a 1.3 mil- lion-square-foot residen- tial building — one of a se- ries of very large complexes that have gone up in recent years. The site was still smoldering by late morn- ing, and downtown was lit- tered with ash. Shortly after 4 a.m., an- other large fire was re- ported at a mixed-use build- ing undergoing renovations about 2 miles to the west. More than 100 firefight- ers from multiple agen- cies responded and had the flames under control in less than two hours, according to Chief Deputy Mario D. Rueda. One person in a nearby apartment building was treated for minor smoke in- halation, he said. Around 10 businesses were housed in the two- story structure in the West- lake district, and portions of it were being renovated for residential use. There were no indica- tions the two incidents were connected, Terrazas said. BLAZE Destructive downtown LA fire snarls traffic NICK UT — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Firefighters and state highway workers watch as an apartment building under construction smolders a er a massive fire along State Route 110that engulfed the site near downtown Los Angeles on Monday. The Associated Press LOS ANGELES More than two-thirds of immigrants held more than six months intheLosAngelesareawere deemed eligible for bond once they eventually got a proper hearing before an immigration judge, a report showed on Monday. TheAmericanCivilLiber- ties Union of Southern Cali- forniafoundmorethan1,100 immigrants,manywhowere initially denied bond hear- ings, were granted bond once a judge heard their re- quest, according to a report released by the group. The ACLU obtained the data after suing federal im- migration authorities to se- cure bond hearings for im- migrants detained more than six months, including those subject to mandatory detention because they had criminal convictions. Newly arriving immi- grants caught on the border don't get bond hearings, nor do immigrants with certain criminalconvictionssuchas drug offenses. As a result, these immigrants remain in detention while their cases wind through the immigra- tion courts system, which can take months. Since the ACLU's lawsuit, any immigrant detained morethansixmonthsisnow entitledtoabondhearingin statescoveredbythe9thU.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Im mi gr at io n det ai ne es win bond a er lawsuit Commuter traffic — slow-moving on good days — remained jammed long after rush hour, with vehicles backed up for miles even after the freeways reopened. Lyford: Darryle Lyford, 55, of Red Bluff, died Saturday, Dec. 6, at Feather River Medical Center. Arrange- ments are under the direc- tion of Blair's Cremation & Burial. Published Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be provided by mortuar- ies to the news depart- ment, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic informa- tion about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Clas- sified advertising depart- ment. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortu- aries or by families of the deceased and include on- line publication linked to the newspaper's web- site. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. DEATH NOTICES ROBERTWAYNESTEWART November 10, 1967 ~ December 5, 2014 Robert Wayne Stewart, born November 10, 1967 passed away December 5, 2014. Survivors are daughter Rachel Rattacjzak, Antioch, CA, mother Ruby N. Russell, Newman, CA; girlfriend Kathy West, Red Bluff, CA; sisters, Divita Tedrick, Red Bluff, CA, Ruby Ann Coffman, Newman, CA; brother and sister-in law, Robert & Lychelle Doolittle, Sweetwater, TX; brother and sister-in-law John & Lyn Russell, Newman, CA; great nephew Jacob Forbes and numerouse nieces and neph- ews. Proceeded in death by brother Timothy Stewart. Obituaries Combining Quality and Low Cost is what we do. www.affordablemortuary.net•529-3655 FD1538 LocatedinChico,CA TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |NEWS | 7 A ★