Rain clearing out of North Bay

<p>A hectic week of heavy downpours, lashing winds and general chaos appeared to be closing with a degree of calm, as rains diminished and the roads began to dry out, emergency personnel said Friday.</p><p>Though flooding was subsiding in some areas, allowing authorities to reopen local roadways, many county roads remained closed.</p><p>Highway 121 also was closed at Highway 12 near Sonoma, and a mudslide still blocked Highway 128 just west of the Sonoma-Mendocino county line, the CHP said.</p><p>County roads still on the officials closure list included:</p><p>Highway 128 to Chalk Hill Road closed to westbound traffic;</p><p>Highway 1 in Tomales;</p><p>Eastside Road, between Wohler and Trenton-Healdsburg roads, in Forestville;</p><p>Green Valley Road, at Atascadero Creek, near Graton;</p><p>Mark West Station Road at Starr Road, outside Windsor;</p><p>Todd Road, east of Old Gravenstein Highway, near Sebastopol;</p><p>Trenton Road, under River Road, in Forestville;</p><p>Valley Ford Road, east of Highway in Valley Ford;</p><p>Wohler Road north of River Road in Forestville, which was expected to be closed all day.</p><p>Rohnert Park Expressway at Stony Point Road has reopened, the CHP said.</p><p>Also reopened is Highway 175 in Hopland.</p><p>Snow that fell on Lake County's Cobb Mountain much of Thursday had largely been cleared from the roads by Friday morning after a very slippery day Thursday, though an inch or two remained on the ground, a local service station clerk said.</p><p>“Yesterday they had a terrible time,” said Bonnie Evans, a clerk at the Texaco on Highway 175 in Cobb. “We had 16 cars off the road at one time.”</p><p>The forecast for the North Coast called for fog and clouds most of Friday, with a few lingering, scattered rain showers “probably into tomorrow morning, but less and less as you go through the night,” National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Tettinger said.</p><p>Dry weather should prevail Saturday and Sunday morning, with rain moving back into the area Sunday afternoon through Tuesday.</p><p>The remainder of the week is expected to bring “a good drying out period” late next week before the possibility of a storm moving in next weekend, Tettinger said.</p>