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(April 28, 2009, The Mercury News)

Water restrictions will begin Friday for about 90,000 residents from the North Coast to Capitola, after Santa Cruz leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency order to save water.
As a result, customers with Santa Cruz Water Department will be restricted to watering outdoors on two assigned days each week. Restaurants [...]

(Jan. 14, 2009, Central Coast)
More than 20 cities stretching from the Bay Area to the Mexican border matched or broke record high temperatures Tuesday, including Monterey at 74 and Salinas at 76, according to AccuWeather.
In Santa Cruz, where the high of 79 was one degree short of the 1948 record, many took to the beaches [...]