Right now we're at a lull between storms, and the rivers are receding. Overall, the flood system is in pretty good shape right now.

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We don't open that thing very often. It's the only manually operated gate in the system. Sometimes it's hard to get it closed again.

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The storm that's coming could bring heavy rain for about 12 hours, and that could impact the whole Delta. All that puts a lot of pressure on the levees, and that's what we're keeping an eye on.

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If the snow level drops, then it's staying up there in the mountains and not coming down in the rivers and melting the snow that's already there.

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Thank God we got a little break in the storms.

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It's looking really good right now. All the reservoirs are pretty much full. ... It's too bad we don't have more storage.

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We're talking about a snow pack that's 150 percent of average, and it's mostly still up there. Usually by this time, a lot of the snow is gone -- but we're still adding to it.

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Right now we're in a flood fight. We're just racing around putting our fires. They almost lost Twitchell Island yesterday, the water was so high and the winds were so strong.

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It's looking pretty good. The storm has moved on to the coast, Southern California - past us.

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