SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) — Hundreds of residents packed up their treasured belongings early Tuesday, preparing to evacuate homes in the burn zone of last fall’s devastating Santa Cruz Mountains wildfire, as a powerful Pacific storm edged ever closer with as much as a foot of rain and the threat of deadly mudslides. Hurricane Hunters from the famed 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron, more commonly deployed to the Gulf Coast, have begun daily flights into the storm, measuring its potency and accessing the dangers it might present. ?Here it comes – #AtmosphericRiver Satellite imagery overnight shows the moisture plume (blue) inching closer to the West Coast. #cawx pic.twitter.com/FwOcqnUQzM — NWS Bay Area (@NWSBayArea) January 26, 2021 The National Weather Service, meanwhile, has issued several warnings for the region including a flash flood watch for the San Francisco Bay Area, an avalanche watch for the Sierra were as much as seven feet or more of new snow could fall in the highest elevations and a high wind warning for “locally up to 70 mph in southwest facing slopes and coastal areas” in the San Francisco region. “This atmospheric river is still on track to be hazardous to a large portion of NorCal…