paul lowenthal paul. thanks for joining us. on saturday the north bay really was able to escape some of the worst of the storm on new year's eve. what are you expecting tomorrow? yeah, we did dodge a bullet last week. however, we are anticipating not only moderate and heavy rains but also significant winds to north bay sonoma county specifically so with that we do have some concerns about localized flooding pawning a rose roadways a lot of trees down power a lot power outages throughout not only santa rosa but really the north bay, it seems like the big difference here is going to be the wind. yeah, the winds are definitely a factor given how saturated the soils are following the last several storms that we've had and what we're expecting in the coming days 55 mile an hour gusts in the valley floors is definitely a concern of ours and we do anticipate a lot of trees and power lines down. all right, we're talking about flooding too. so, how are you guys preparing? yeah. so the santa rosa fire department really fire departments around sonoma county or upstaffing our swiftwater rescue team, so we will have a couple boats staffed up for our department specifically additional chief officers. our department operations center will be staffed and if needed we have our cities emergency operations center staff on standby, so definitely taking this serious. hopefully, we don't have any significant issues, but we have to be prepared given what the forecast is. alright. 10 seconds, so you recommend people get a go bag. what do you tell people? yeah, so some of the residents that live in around the burnt scars. we're asking to have the same preparations. they would have for fire season being prepared to evacuate an event. there's any major mud slides or debris flow and utilize in the last couple hours of the day to clear any gutters of storage rain system so that the water flows where it needs to go. all right paul. thank you so much as always paul lowenthal with the santa rosa fire department here. again, you can come to the maintenance yard in santa rosa to get sandbags. people are here right now. there's other sandbag stations that up throughout the county people are also officials are also asking people to stay home if you can to make sure that first responders are able to access all the roads and get to the problematic areas tomorrow live here in santa rosa this croates abc 7 news. good advice. thank you. liz some parts of contra costa county like walnut creek and danville saw massive flooding on saturday and those neighborhoods know they will likely be hit again tomorrow. so preparations are underway abc 7 news reporter on sir hudson joins us live from danville with more answer. our good evening. i'm on our capitan drive here in danville. you may remember on saturday. this area was flooded three to four feet of water. you can see the streets have been cleaned up, but still there's a lot of