In January, California was hit with back-to-back storms. The harm from these storms actually hit the backroads of the Santa Cruz mountains, as you will see in this video by bicycle owner Larry Rairden. He biked 300 miles via the mountains in mid-January, capturing washed out roads, downed timber, and different reminders of Mom Nature’s wrath. He writes, “Many roads needed to be blocked off attributable to landslides and washouts. Whereas barricades stopped motor automobiles, they did not cease me. A cyclocross bike would have been extra acceptable for a number of the muddier sections, although.”

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“It was devastating. I’ve ridden bicycles on these roads for 50 years,” mentioned Rairden, 67, a retired geophysicist who grew up in Palo Alto. “I do know there have been storms over the many years. However I would by no means seen them like this. Each time I rotated there was a ‘street closed’ signal. I continued on the bicycle so far as I may. In some instances, bridges have been washed out or landslides have been too in depth for me to hold my bicycle throughout.”