A4 Wednesday, February 22, 2017 • richmond Times-dispaTch Dozens rescued from Calif. flood PERSONALITIES A judge has ordered R&B singer to stay away from his ex-girl- by The associated press friend after she accused him of physi- cally abusing and threatening her. SAN JOSE, Calif. — Rescuers The Grammy winner and Tappa- chest-deep in water steered hannock native was or- boats carrying dozens of dered to stay 100 yards people, some with babies away from Karrueche and pets, from a San Jose Tran and not attempt neighborhood inundated to contact her after she by an overflowing creek wrote in court filings Tuesday. that Brown had repeat- The rescued residents had edly threatened her since to be taken to dry land and Brown December. rinsed with soap and water Tran also accused the to prevent them from being singer of punching her in the stomach sickened by floodwaters that and pushing her down stairs a few years had traveled through engine ago. Her filing does not offer any addi- fuel, garbage and debris, and tional specifics or note if she reported over sewer lines, San Jose the events to police. It states that no one Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow was present at the time. said. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The order, which was issued Friday, Only residents who could Rescue crews steered residents from a flooded neighborhood in San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday. also calls for Brown to surrender any show they had been cleaned The neighborhood was inundated by water from an overflowing creek. firearms he has until a March 9 hearing off were allowed to board on the restraining order. buses to a shelter for those tractors and other heavy Saturday during another mel River and the Salinas An email message sent to Brown’s at- displaced by the floodwaters. equipment to help shore up in the series of storms and River were also expected to torney Mark Geragos was not immedi- “This is like once in a life- a levee along the San Joaquin drowned inside her car. approach flood levels. ately returned. time,” said Bobby Lee, 15, of River. The current storm system In the Sierra Nevada, part Brown and Tran dated after the singer the water around him. The rains were the lat- began to weaken Tuesday of one of the main routes to pleaded guilty to felony for an He was rescued with his est produced by a series of after dumping more than a Lake Tahoe was in danger of attack on in 2009 just hours be- brother and parents, who storms generated by so- half-inch of rain in the San collapsing after a roadway fore the Grammy Awards. took clothes, electronics called atmospheric rivers Joaquin Valley, over an inch shoulder gave way following vvv and some photos from their that dump massive quanti- in San Francisco, and more heavy storms, leaving a gap- home in a neighborhood ties of Pacific Ocean water than 5 inches in the moun- ing hole about 40 feet long Tom Hanks is putting his love of vin- that ended up littered with on after carrying tains above Big Sur over and 17 feet wide, Caltrans tage typewriters to good use — his col- submerged cars. it aloft from as far away as the previous 24 hours, the engineer Jarrett Woodruff lection of short stories will be published Earlier Tuesday, fire- Hawaii. National Weather Service said. in October. fighters rescued five people The rains have saturated reported. Crews opened one lane The Oscar-winning actor’s first book, stranded by flooding at a the once-drought-stricken Dry weather was expected Tuesday as workers tried to “UNCOMMON TYPE: Some Stories,” homeless camp along the region but have created to return to the region today. fix the road failure after nu- features 17 stories, each in some way same creek in San Jose. chaos for residents hit hard In San Jose, the fire de- merous mudslides blocked involving a different typewriter. It’s due Firefighters went door to by the storms. partment was called to Coy- it for days at a time in recent out Oct. 24 from Alfred A. Knopf, the door to tell residents to get The latest downpours ote Creek amid reports of weeks. publisher said Tuesday. out of their homes because swelled waterways to flood as many as 40 people being The water level rose at Among the stories written by Hanks, the city does not have sirens levels and left about half the stranded at the homeless Lake Oroville for the first who owns over 100 typewriters, is one or another emergency warn- state under flood, wind and encampment. time since authorities or- about an immigrant arriving in New ing system, San Jose spokes- snow advisories. That number turned out dered an emergency evacua- York City, another about a bowler who man David Vossbrink said. The Times re- to be inaccurate and every- tion of 188,000 people more becomes a celebrity, and another about In the San Joaquin Valley ported Tuesday that a mo- one was located, Matlow than a week ago after a dam- an eccentric billionaire. in California’s agricultural torist in Northern California said. aged spillway caused major — The Associated Press heartland, farmers used their was swept into a creek on Near Monterey, the Car- flooding concerns.

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