9, according to residents, when a culvert gave out under the road connecting Uccellini-Kuby and her neighbors to the outside world, isolating some residents and keeping others from returning to their homes, about 20 miles from the iconic Santa Cruz boardwalk on the coast. The rains took out Harmon Gulch Road on Jan. Landslides spilled over roads in the mountains. On the Central California coast, Santa Cruz businesses flooded and piers collapsed. Numerous atmospheric rivers, columns of vapor that can release heavy downpours when they make landfall, descended on the state from late December through mid-January. Harmon Gulch residents Rebekah Uccellini-Kuby, Jeannette Kornher, and Katia Sussman (center) stand near the break in their road. “How many people are buying into that?” replied a Santa Cruz County supervisor standing nearby, who had arrived to attend a meeting Uccellini-Kuby organized for the road’s residents. “We’re calling this our silver lining crossing, to try and remind people to look at the silver lining in all of this,” Uccellini-Kuby said. It had been over a month since a stream of storms inundated California, but Harmon Gulch Road, which leads to about a dozen homes, remained unpassable, split in half, with big pieces of pavement lying in a yawning crack in the earth. BOULDER CREEK, Calif.-Near the spot where a washed-out private road in the Santa Cruz mountains cut off access to her street, Rebekah Uccellini-Kuby gestured toward a painted wooden sign stuck in the earth.
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