With atmospheric river after atmospheric river hitting the region, it's been a busy year for the U.S. Coast Guard.
"The biggest hazard to us -- the aircraft flies perfectly fine in the rain -- it's a visibility restriction," said Lt. Joel Norton, a helicopter pilot.
He recalls a series of survey flights after some of the first atmospheric rivers of the season, which resulted in the Salinas River flooding in Monterey County. "It kind of put everybody in a state of higher alert," he said."When an atmospheric river comes through, it's like okay well this is a very different circumstance. The landscape is unsettled. People are experiencing a natural phenomenon that may not necessarily come through here so often."
At one point at the beginning of the year when the atmospheric rivers struck hard, she says they increased the number of helicopters they have at the station.
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