After weeks of rain, one last storm Sunday night had residents waking up to more floods and mudslides Monday morning.

Ryan Orosco found himself in 3-foot-deep floodwaters at his mobile home along Bixler Road in Bryon shortly after daybreak. He carried his wife and young son separately out of the home. Thanks to the home standing on a raised platform, none of the water managed to make it inside. However, 3 to 4 inches of water seeped inside his parents’ home next door.

“It’s really stressful to deal with it,” said Orosco, 35. “It just baffles me how much water came down.”

In Berkeley, a mudslide slammed into Marjorie Cruz’s home on Middlefield Road about 6:30 a.m. Authorities issued mandatory evacuation orders to more than a half-dozen properties in the area.

“It’s completely shocking – I don’t have words to describe what I’m looking at,” she said. “Who expects to wake up in the morning and see an entire hillside in their dining room?”

For now, however, evacuees and weathered residents across Northern California can refocus on clearing the mounds of dirt and detritus thrust into their homes and draining lingering rainwater as the National Weather Service lifts flood advisories and the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the state’s Office of Emergency Services deploy aid.

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The trip is also Bay Area transit’s homage to the Freedom Train, a three-mile procession Coretta Scott King, King’s late wife, organized in the form of 300 activists marching from Memphis, Tennessee, following King Jr.’s memorial services on May 2, 1968, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

The mules and wagons of that first caravan of King’s Poor People’s Campaign drew attention to the injustices of tenant farming, sharecropping and the plantation economy. Marchers then boarded buses en route to Marks, Mississippi. Public transportation agencies nationwide still offer free rides annually to observe the occasion.

CalTrain’s rolling jubilee unfolded as the train departed from Diridon around 9:30 a.m., continued as it stopped in Palo Alto and San Mateo near 9:50 a.m. and 10:10 a.m. respectively and concluded in San Francisco close to 10:45 a.m. on Jan. 16.

The ride was suspended three years ago as the coronavirus pandemic upended public life. But previous rumors of its demise turned out to be exaggerated when this news organization reported the tradition’s finale in 2015. While CalTrain did not offer a special southbound service on the holiday this year, it did accept Celebration Train tickets on southbound trains departing San Francisco after 1 p.m.

At least 14 people have died since last week.

Miles of Sierra highways were subject to chain requirements and closures due to whiteout conditions, and avalanche warnings were posted in the backcountry.

The Eastern Sierra’s Mammoth Mountain ski resort reported 4.5 to 5.5 feet (1.4-1.7 meters) of snow, with more expected.

Reporting by Christopher Weber and Stefanie Dazio of the Associated Press.

According to Gov. Gavin Newsom, 12 people have died in storms across the state. On Sunday, President Biden declared a disaster in California, making the state eligible for federal aid.

For more storm coverage, read our live updates.

This latest storm is an atmospheric river, essentially a giant conveyor belt of water in the sky and moisture-rich maelstrom rolling in from the Pacific Ocean to fill California’s reservoirs and blanket the Sierra Nevada with snow, which has the potential to cause catastrophic flooding and mudslides.

By the scale used to measure the strength and impact of such weather systems, this torrent is a Category 3 out of 5. The scale meteorologists use bases the five categories of intensity on the duration of the tempest and the magnitude of water content called the Integrated Water Vapor Transport (IVT).

Wednesday’s atmospheric river is also being labeled a “bomb cyclone” for its rapid strengthening off-shore. That term describes an area of low pressure that intensified by 24 millibars within 24 hours, with millibars being a unit of measurement for atmospheric pressure.

Grounded from lofty definitions and weather science meanwhile are the residents grappling with surviving the wind-whipped deluge. Below are photos documenting their experiences. While we encourage your safest preparation and response to this emergency, if you have any visuals to share, please email photovideo@bayareanewsgroup.com.

The ball dropped on New York City’s iconic Times Square as huge crowds counted down the seconds into 2023, culminating in raucous cheers and a deluge of confetti glittering amid jumbo screens, neon, pulsing lights and soggy streets.

A man wielding a machete attacked three police officers near the celebration, authorities said, striking two of them in the head before an officer shot the man in the shoulder about eight blocks from Times Square, just outside the high-security zone. The two officers were hospitalized, one with a fractured skull and the other with a bad cut, but expected to recover. The 19-year-old suspect was also expected to recover.

Across the world, at least for a day, thoughts focused on possibilities, even elusive ones like world peace, and mustering — finally — a resolve to keep the next array of resolutions. Reporting by Bobby Caina Calvan of the Associated Press.

Kohler, who turns 99 in January, was a 17-year-old Seaman 1st Class when he charged across Ford Island base in the center of Pearl Harbor the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, with bombs and machine gun bullets raining down on him as he grabbed a .50 caliber machine gun, hopped into an aircraft and started firing into the sky. Now he’s a Concord resident and fixture at the annual beacon lighting, which this year marked the 81st anniversary of the surprise attack that killed 2,403 Americans and thrust the U.S. into the second World War.

“When that beacon light is turned on, that’s a tribute to those individuals who lost their lives at Pearl Harbor,” Kohler said of the ceremony in 2020.

The rotating lantern was installed in the late 1920s to assist transcontinental aviation. To ease fears that the beacon would be used as a navigational aid by enemy submarines, the system was deactivated during World War II, and only reignited on Pearl Harbor Day for one night only in 1964 at the suggestion of retired Admiral Chester Nimitz, wartime commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

The tradition has continued to the present. The beacon is lit once a year, every Dec. 7 from sunset to sunrise the next day, to remember those lives lost at Pearl Harbor.

An exception was made during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the beacon was lit each Sunday beginning in April 2020 and ending in April 2021.

“Pearl Harbor still contains invaluable lessons for the nation,” said Robert Phelps, director of the Concord campus. “One thing people forget is how divided Americans were before the attack. Twenty years after the end of World War I, 70% of Americans polled believed that U.S. participation in the Great War had been a mistake. Immediately after Nazi Germany invaded Poland, 90% of Americans opposed getting involved in this next European war.

“Yet, Pearl Harbor immediately unified the nation, ensuring the eventual defeat of the Axis powers and their ambitions for global conquest.”

CNN is offering tips for establishing and enforcing boundaries with encroaching relatives.

The Washington Post is reminding its subscribers that the U.S. Department of Agriculture recommends 1 pound of turkey per dinner guest among those celebrating the 400-year-old tradition.

The Bay Area News Group, meantime, is here to explain why cranberries are the only regular Thanksgiving item that went down in price amid this year’s record inflation, provide travelers with last-minute pointers to save money, help you find beverages to elevate and eliminate worry over what goes well with turkey and bring you these holiday-themed political cartoons.

(Left) Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes in a family portrait presented during her trial on November 10, 2022. Her father Christian was chief financial officer and third-ranked executive at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under former President George H.W. Bush. In a letter of support filed in court ahead of Holmes’ sentencing, Christian said Holmes grew up going to church, and loved to collect pebbles, leaves, acorns and bugs from a canal near the family’s home in Washington, D.C. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes as a child held by her mother Noel in a family photo filed in court on November 10, 2022 before Holmes’ sentencing. Noel was a regular attendee at Holmes’ fraud trial, holding her daughter’s hand as they walked in and out of federal court in San Jose. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)

Left: A young Elizabeth Holmes writes that “I try to do right” in response to a school worksheet question about the most important thing to know about her. Right: Holmes implores readers of her Recipe for How to Make Friends to not “ever pour pressure on anyone” and to toss in the Golden Rule and “treat others like you want to be treated.” (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, with dog, in a family portrait filed in court November 10, 2022 before her sentencing. Holmes’ parents Noel and Christian were regulars at her four-month fraud trial in San Jose. Jurors during the trial heard Holmes hired her brother Christian, left, as a senior manager at Theranos, and he, in turn, brought onboard a half-dozen of his college pals. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)

A young Elizabeth Holmes repping Stanford University in an archival photo filed in court November 10, 2022 before her sentencing on fraud charges. Holmes dropped out of Stanford her sophomore year. She testified at her trial that while there, she researched microfluidics, the science of tiny liquid volumes, key to Theranos’ technology. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)

Channeling Steve Jobs: Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, California on Sept. 8, 2014, when her charisma – and adoption of the trademark black turtleneck of Apple co-founder Jobs – were making her famous as a rare young female tech entrepreneur. A year later, the Wall Street Journal would run the first of a series of exposés leading to her spectacular downfall. (Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

Before the fall: Elizabeth Holmes speaks about her company’s vision at Theranos’ headquarters on July 3, 2014, in Palo Alto, California. Jurors during Holmes fraud trial heard that Theranos maintained ultra-high security at its buildings, and touted secrecy around its technology as the reason for keeping investors and inspectors out of purportedly sensitive areas. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of Theranos, listens as Vice-President Joe Biden speaks during a visit to Theranos’ manufacturing facility in Newark, Calif., on Thursday, July 23, 2015. Biden toured the facility and took part in a roundtable discussion on preventive health care, innovation and the role of the private sector in expanding access. Holmes drew numerous former government officials onto her board, including secretaries of defense and state. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)

Former US President Bill Clinton (L) and Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes listen as Alibaba Group executive chairman Jack Ma (R) speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York on September 29, 2015. Holmes had a high-flying lifestyle involving private jets, posh accommodations and what prosecutors described as “high-end merchandise.” Judge Edward Davila in her criminal case ruled that the prosecution could not use brand names before jurors, as that could appeal to “class prejudice,” despite the likelihood that with every purchase “she knew her fraudulent activity allowed her to pay for those items.” (Joshua Lott/AFP via Getty Images)

CEO and founder of Theranos Elizabeth Holmes (L) and Congresswoman Jackie Speier attend the Women In Technology and Politics dinner hosted by Glamour and Facebook at The Battery on August 16, 2016 in San Francisco, California. Holmes was widely admired by progressive women who saw her smashing glass ceilings on the way to success in a male-dominated technology industry. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for Glamour)

Elizabeth Holmes (L) and Alan Murray speak at the Fortune Global Forum at the Fairmont Hotel on November 2, 2015 in San Francisco, California. For her fraud trial, she traded the black turtleneck look she appropriated from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs for business skirt suits. (Photo by Kimberly White/Getty Images for Fortune)

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, center, and her family leave the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse after the jury found her guilty on four counts in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Holmes was found guilty of four counts of defrauding investors, each carrying a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)

Elizabeth Holmes arrives at federal court in San Jose, Calif., on Oct. 17, 2022, for a hearing in which a witness from her criminal fraud trial testified that he believed she was pregnant. Her partner Billy Evans, the father of their 15-month-old son born weeks before her trial started, confirmed the pregnancy in a later court filing. Legal experts say Judge Edward Davila will likely factor in her child and coming newborn in deciding on her fraud sentence Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. (Jeff Chiu/Associated Press)

Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, her husband Billy Evans and their dog Balto in a photo collage filed in court November 10, 2022 before her sentencing. Evans filed a statement claiming media attention drove them out of town onto the road for a six-month camping trip. Balto, Holmes’ husky dog that she reported described as a wolf, was later killed by a cougar, Evans said in the statement. (Photo courtesy of U.S. District Court, San Jose)

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes arrives at the federal courthouse in San Jose for her sentencing hearing on Friday, Nov. 18 accompanied by her father Christian Holmes, her mother, Noel Holmes, and her partner, Billy Evans. Holmes is now pregnant with her second child. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)