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Tue Apr 11, 8:15 AM

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rain was falling again Tuesday in northern and central California, where Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency in seven counties that have been battered by storms and flooding.

In his emergency declaration Monday, Schwarzenegger warned that levees in the region had been seriously weakened by the storms and were in danger of breaking. The National Weather Service forecast rain through the weekend.

"There's great vulnerability in the San Joaquin Valley and the Central Valley," Schwarzenegger said after touring the state's flood operations center. "We want to do everything we can to make sure that we don't have a levee break."

He wrote in his declaration that the situation in Amador, Calaveras, Fresno, Merced, San Joaquin, San Mateo and Stanislaus counties posed "extreme peril to the safety of persons and property."

The region experienced its rainiest March on record and has had an unusually wet start to April. The heavy rain and flooding already has caused scattered levee breaks and mud slides, washed out roads and forced hundreds of residents from their homes.

"All of our reservoirs are full and we are not able to contain all the water," Department of Water Resources Deputy Director Les Harder told the governor. "The river system, and the levee system, is being taxed beyond its designed capacity."

He said the area was facing "one of the top-five weather seasons on record" and it had put California on the precipice of disaster.

The declaration directs all state agencies to make staff, equipment and facilities available to help the affected counties. It also will accelerate the flow of state money to local response agencies that have been straining to cope with the flooding and storms, said Eric Lamoureux, spokesman for the California Office of Emergency Services.

The record spring rainfall follows a wet winter. Schwarzenegger declared states of emergency in 34 counties in January. In February, he declared another state of emergency covering the state's fragile levee system.

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