This list has been updated and is current as of 4 p.m. Tuesday.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The week started out with many county roads and city streets remaining closed due to continuing flood conditions.

The major closure in the county, of the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff, remained in effect on Monday, with the Lake County Public Works Department reporting that there was not yet an estimated time of reopening for the roadway.

In Lakeport, many streets remain closed due to damage or flooding, but on Monday Giselman Street between Lakeshore Boulevard and Sayre Street was reopened. 

However, the city said Lakeshore Boulevard east of Giselman to the city limits at Beach Lane remains closed due to flooding. Through traffic is encouraged to use the Hartley Road detour via Twentieth Street.

The full list of road closures and advisories for areas around the county follows. Information was compiled from reports from Caltrans, the California Highway Patrol, the Clearlake Police Department, Lake County Department of Public Works and the Lakeport Police Department.

In the map shown on this page, areas marked with the flooding symbol and the red triangle indicate closures; the rockslide icon indicates those areas where there are slides but which remain open.

The map is subject to updating throughout the day as new information becomes available.

CLEARLAKE

All city boat launches remain closed.

Lower Lakeshore Drive at Lakeshore Drive: Closed due to flooding.

CLEARLAKE OAKS

High Valley Road: Road conditions from Brassfield Winery to Bartlett Springs Road are unknown at this time.

Island Drive: Closed from Highway 20 to the bridge due to flooding.

Keys Boulevard: Closed due to flooding.

Lake Street: Closed due to flooding.

Old Long Valley Road: Open with slide activity.

Widgeon Way: Closed from the Plaza to Shady Lane due to tree across the roadway.

COBB

Maple Shadows: Closed at the south end from Highway 175 to Parnassus due to culvert failure.

Socrates Mine Road: Road slip out at MPM 3.8. Down to one lane in this area.

LAKEPORT (CITY)

All city boat launches remain closed.

Library Park continues to be closed due to the extreme danger and flood conditions.

City parking lots at Third Street, Fourth Street and Fifth Street are closed.

– Esplanade Street.
– K Street.
– Konocti Avenue.
– Lupoyoma Avenue.
– Helena Avenue.
– Lily Cove Avenue.
– Oak Knoll Avenue.
– E Street.

Lakeshore Boulevard: Closed to all traffic east of Giselman to the north city limit boundary at Beach Lane. Through traffic is encouraged to use the Hartley Road detour via 20th Street. Lakeshore Boulevard across from Jones Street appears to be undermined and may be structurally unsafe. Avoid the area.

Royale Avenue: Closed to all vehicles at Pike Drive.

LAKEPORT

Hill Road: Closed between Sutter Lakeside Hospital entrance and Lakeshore Boulevard due to mudslides across the roadway.

Lakeshore Boulevard: Closed from Park Way to Alterra Drive due to flooding.

Lakeshore Boulevard: Closed from Park Way to 2,500 feet north due to flooding and a power pole leaning into the roadway.

LOWER LAKE

Morgan Valley Road: Closed at the Lake/Napa line due to numerous trees and mud slides on the Napa County side.

LUCERNE

Bartlett Springs Road: Closed at MPM 18.0 due to mudslide.

Twin Valley Road: Closed due to mudslide.

NICE

Lakeshore Boulevard: Closed from Stokes Avenue to Carson Street due to flooding.

Nice-Lucerne Cutoff: Closed due to flooding.

Stokes Avenue: Closed from Stokes Court to Nice-Lucerne Cutoff due to flooding.

UPPER LAKE

Elk Mountain Road: Roadway closed at MPM 29.6 due to road washout. No estimate of when road will be reopened.

MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – The Middletown Area Town Hall gathered earlier this month to hear an update on building codes and the local museum.

During the Feb. 9 meeting at the Middletown Community Center Lake County Community Development Director Bob Massarelli gave an update on new building codes and his department’s operations.

Voris Brumfield also gave an update on the transfer of the Gibson Museum from the Lake County Historical Society to Lake County Museum System and museum activities.

The MATH Board includes Chair Claude Brown, Vice Chair Linda Diehl-Darms, Secretary Fletcher Thornton, and members Lisa Kaplan and Gregg Van Oss.

Diehl-Darms chaired the meeting; Brown and Van Oss both were absent.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – On Tuesday, Feb. 28, the Lake County Campus of Woodland Community College will host its annual Black History Month celebration. 

The event will start at 11:30 a.m. at the campus, located at 15880 Dam Road Extension in Clearlake. 

Jermaine Gregoire, student chair for the event, has put together a very powerful list of guest speakers for the event.

Andre Williams will set the mood with music from 11:30 a.m. to noon.

At noon, Charles Williams, a local pastor, and Rick Mayo, president of the local Lake County NAACP will speak about black history, the past, the present and its future.

For the event, an essay contest was created. Two questions were offered for students to write about.  What is the current state of civil rights in our country? And, what is the most important civil rights event in our history? During the event, the winner’s essay will be read aloud. 

Associated Students have prepared posters with prominent and influential black men and women who have helped shape and mold our country into a more perfect union. These will be showcased and presented during the event.

Aromas Café, the campus restaurant, will be serving southern style food for $9 per plate from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information about the event contact the campus at 707-995-7900 or visit the college online at http://lcc.yccd.edu .

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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The first month of 2017 showed Lake County's real estate market had higher sales prices but lower overall sales compared to the previous month.

The Lake County Association of Realtors, or LCAOR, reported that the January median sales price rose 3.4 percent over December’s median. The December median was down 18.5 percent from the November median. 

The median sales price in January was $215,000, with the December median coming in at $207,900 and the November median at $255,000, according to the report.

The number of sales in January was 58, down 24.7 percent from the 77 sales in December and down 17.1 percent from the 70 sales in November, LCAOR said.

On a year-over-year basis, LCAOR reported that the January 2017 median sales price was down 7.5 percent compared to January 2016. The number of sales was up 16 percent from 50 in January 2016 to 58 in January 2017.

“The winter months tend to be the slowest time for real estate in Lake County and most of California,” said 2017 LCAOR President Bobby Dutcher. “The end of 2015 and the beginning 2016 were unique times in Lake County, with real estate sales and prices being fueled by the 2015 fires. It appears that the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017 are taking on a more normal pattern.”

Cash-only sales made up 25.9 percent of the financing for residential sales while conventional loan financing accounted for 32.8 percent of the transactions and FHA loans made up 10.3 percent of the deals, according to LCAOR's report.

There was an uptick in distressed home sales, the report showed. In January, 13.8 percent of the sales were in that category, in December it was 9.1 percent and in January 2016 it was 8 percent.

Distressed sales include the resale of properties that were foreclosed upon and short sales, properties that were sold for less than what was owed.

The California Association of Realtors, or CAR, reported that housing affordability continues to be a statewide issue. 

On a statewide basis the affordability index is 31 percent, meaning that 31 percent of California households could afford to purchase the $511,360 median-priced home in the fourth quarter of 2016, CAR reported.

Of the counties that CAR tracks, San Francisco had the lowest affordability index of 13 percent and Kings County had the highest index at 56 percent. The nationwide affordability index was 58 percent. 

CAR does not track an affordability index for Lake County.

LAKE COUNTY NUMBERS AT A GLANCE

January 2017
Median price: $215,000
Median days to sell: 56
Units sold: 58

December 2016
Median price: $207,900
Median days to sell: 84
Units sold: 77

January 2016
Median price: $232,500
Median days to sell: 78
Units sold: 50

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Dry weather on Friday and Saturday has helped lessen flooding conditions around Lake County, with Clear Lake’s elevation continuing to drop.

This past week, authorities issued mandatory evacuations in four neighborhoods in the city of Lakeport as well as advisory evacuations in parts of Clearlake, Clearlake Oaks and the Clearlake Keys, and low-lying areas at Big Valley Rancheria, Corinthian Bay and Lands End near Lakeport and Soda Bay near Kelseyville due to the widespread flooding.

Authorities have so far not indicated that they’ve lifted the mandatory and advisory evacuations, as Clear Lake’s elevation is still well into flood stage, which begins at 9 feet Rumsey.

Lake County also remains under a flood warning issued by the National Weather Service.

Clear Lake’s elevation topped out at about 10.6 feet Rumsey on Thursday and Friday, and has since dropped to just over 10.3 feet Rumsey as of early Sunday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Local officials said the lake is expected to continue to recede at the rate of about a tenth of a foot a day if there is no serious inflow.

The Cache Creek Dam, which had its releases reduced briefly on Friday so debris could be cleared from it, was back to high volume releases from the lake of more than 4,700 cubic feet per second on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said.

The California Nevada River Forecast Center expects that Clear Lake will continue to recede at a fairly steady pace, reaching about 9.7 feet Rumsey by Wednesday, even though a small amount of rain is in the forecast on Sunday and Monday.

The National Weather Service said Lake County has a chance of showers during the day on Sunday as well as winds of up to 13 miles per hour, with rain expected to total less than a tenth of an inch.

On Sunday night, rains showers – and a small amount of show – also is possible, even in the county’s lower elevations, with a slight chance of rain and snow also forecast on Monday morning, and a reduced chance of more showers on Monday night, according to the forecast.

Temperatures on Sunday are forecast to be in the high 40s during the daytime and the high 20s at night. On Monday, daytime temperatures are expected to be closer to 50 degrees, while nighttime temperatures are forecast to drop near the mid 20s.

Then, from Tuesday through Saturday, the National Weather Service said conditions are expected to be sunny and clear, with temperatures topping out around 60 degrees during the day and nighttime lows around 30 degrees.

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