Current Monterey County Emergency Notifications for January 12

Here is an updated list of emergency notifications and their status.

Trying a simplified list with just the notice location, without the more detailed information regarding zones which show the parameters of each notice and background. For those details, please check the interactive map at www.tinyurl.com/winterstormmc

We will continue to update as new information is available.

All orders remain in place until further notice. Residents should be aware they cannot return to an evacuation zone until the orders are lifted.

Maia Carroll

Communications Coordinator

County of Monterey

EVACUATION ORDERS have been issued for the low-lying areas adjacent to the following rivers and creeks:

Carmel by the Sea to Carmel Valley
Sycamore Flat
Pajaro
Spreckels
Chualar to parts of Gonzales
San Lorenzo Park
King City to San Lucas
San Lucas to San Ardo
Salinas River from Pacific Ocean to Highway 68

EVACUATION WARNINGS have been issued for the low-lying areas adjacent to the following rivers and creeks:

Big Sur River
Carmel by the Sea
Salinas - Bolsa Knolls Community
Salinas - Sherwood Lake Mobile Home Park
Salinas - Rancho Salinas Mobile Home Park
Parts of Gonzales to King City
San Antonio Park
Salinas Valley South of San Ardo

For those requesting, here is shelter/disaster population estimate information that on Thursday morning, January 12:

Shelter population: 114 total overnight, most at Monterey Fairgrounds, Sherwood Hall and Prunedale.

Population impacted by emergency notifications: 27,700 estimate.

Maia Carroll

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