photo credit: Noah Abrams/KRCB
A local TV anchor discusses Wednesday's stormy conditions while a resident
fills sand bags at the self fill station at Santa Rosa's municipal services yard.

The rain is here, and with forecasts predicting pretty heavy accumulations and rising creeks, county and city sandbag stations are up and running.

Dire warnings of an epic, and hard to predict system had some local residents, such as Susan Motley, going for seconds.

"Well, my office is flooding, and so I have to get these sandbags, which is really awesome I can come here and do that," Motley said. "I already came here earlier and filled up ten, and I realized I needed to get more, so here I am."

Downtown Santa Rosa is forecast to receive up to another inch of rain overnight tonight, according to the National Weather Service, that's atop the three quarters of an inch that's already fallen.

Helmut Korstick, like Motley, said his sandbags from Santa Rosa's self serve station at the city's municipal service yard on Stony Point Road, are headed for southwest Santa Rosa.

"It's because the amount of rain they're projecting in a short period, yeah, close to an inch in an hour and a half," Korstick said. "So I'm concerned about that rapid rain at once, possibly getting through our sliding glass door."

"We've lived there 20 years and never had it get in the house," Korstick said. "But it has been close, but I'm concerned about an inch and a half in a short period."

The rain will keep coming down through tonight; parts of Sonoma County could even see thunderstorms and hail overnight.

In addition to Santa Rosa's municipal services yard at 55 Stony Point Road, sand bags can be filled at the Monte Rio Fire Station and Sonoma Landworks in Guerneville.

A full list of sand bag station can found online at socoemergency.org.