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From YouTube: Storms of '98 Special Report (February 1998)

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The Cupertino City Channel presents this special news report, looking back at a week of excessive rainfall and flooding in Cupertino during the month of February 1998.

This video is one in a series of programs presented as a part of the Cupertino City Channel's digital video archive project.

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This is a City Channel special report, the storms of 98, a look back at a week of rainfall and flooding in Cupertino.

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It happened again Saturday afternoon shortly after 1:00 p.m. for the second time in a week, Calabasas Creek in Cupertino overflowed its banks, sending a torrent of water and debris gushing down. Miller Avenue.

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From the hills up there down heavy rainfalls Saturday as much as a half an inch an hour sent creeks and streams rising to capacity. It was a repeat performance of Monday's storm which also caused scattered flooding throughout the city.

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On Bollinger Road public works, crews could only watch as Calabasas once again jumped to Spanx threatening nearby homes and closing the street for several hours.

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Go traffic was diverted from east to States drive as some residents scrambled home to protect their property from the rising waters.

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Tenants at the gardens of fountain blow apartment complex on Miller Avenue were not so lucky Creek, runoff deposited mud and other debris into the apartments rec rooms damaging some furniture.

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Although this video footage seen here records the aftermath of the Monday night Tuesday morning, storm flooding conditions were similar this weekend in the hills of Cupertino along alcalde, Santa, Lucia and Cordova roads residents lined their homes with sandbags in anticipation of renewed rainfall, a culvert along Cordova Road collapsed, sending streaming water into nearby homes.

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Numerous minor mudslides were also reported in the area, notably Stevens Canyon Road, which had been closed much of the week at blackberry, farm Golf Course, the rising waters of Stevens Creek once again thread in the clubhouse, which had been inundated earlier in the week.

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Much of the course remained underwater as ground crews worked tirelessly in an effort to hold back the rising runoff.

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At McClellan ranch park, the normally Placid Stevens Creek raged to the top of its banks, drawing on lookers and threatening to flood the nearby Simms house, which had been evacuated for the second time this week,.

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Part of the deep cliffs Golf Course also lay underwater by early Monday morning, water from the spillway at Stevens. Creek reservoir has stopped and Creek levels again were receding.

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Reservoir levels remain at about 30 425 acre feet as of Monday afternoon, just below the total capacity of 30 465 acre feet with another significant storm due in Thursday public works. Crews are out in force inspecting storm drains and culverts in an effort to minimize potential flooding. If you see a clogged storm drain or other potential flood hazard called the Cupertino service center immediately at 7 7 7 3 2 6 9 after 4:00 p.m.

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please call 2, 9 9 to 507 for information on sandbags call, 1, 888, hey Noah, or the Cupertino service center as more powerful El Nino storms threaten from the Pacific and governor Wilson declares the state of emergency in more than 20 California counties. The City channel will continue to monitor local weather and runoff conditions and bring you the latest information on how the storms are impacting Cupertino stay tuned to the City Channel in the days to come for more special reports on the storms of 98.