Signs of snowmelt-fueled deluge were everywhere in famed Yosemite Valley on Saturday as the normally placid Merced River surged over its banks, swamping roads, erasing swimming beaches, and turning meadows into murky sloughs.Much of the valley was closed at 10 p.m. on Friday and the closures were expected to remain in place at least until Wednesday due to a jump in temperatures that turned deep piles of snow blanketing the Sierra Nevada range's higher elevations into torrents of runoff.
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