Thursday Top of the Scroll: Toddler killed, cities evacuated as massive storm lashes Northern California
A powerful winter storm unleashed heavy rain and strong winds across Northern California on Wednesday, triggering evacuations and power outages, and heightening fears of widespread flooding and debris flows. … Wednesday’s storm is the third atmospheric river that’s hit California in the last two weeks. The successive storms have brought a deluge of water to the drought-stricken state, prompting Gov. Newsom to declare a state of emergency to “support response and recovery efforts.” … The series of atmospheric rivers that started toward the end of December was somewhat surprising after one of California’s driest years on record, which left reservoirs drained and soils parched.
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- San Francisco Chronicle: Two dead as storm wallops Bay Area, downing trees, flooding roads, cutting electrical service
- Los Angeles Times: Storm slams Southern California with heavy rain, flood fears and strong winds
- CNN: Hurricane-force wind gusts blow through California as part of the ‘bomb cyclone’ hitting the coast
- California Department of Water Resources: News release: DWR Prepares for More Storms and Potential Flooding
- Associated Press: Evacuations ordered as California braces for rain, floods
- Associated Press: Wild weather driven by roiling Pacific, nature and warming
- USA Today: ‘Rivers in the sky’: Graphics show atmospheric river soaking California’s Bay Area
- Modesto Bee: Gov. Gavin Newsom declares emergency for major California storm, flooding in forecast
- Orange County Register: Forecast of 16-foot swells prompts California coast to brace for floods
- Los Angeles Times: Atmospheric river poses lethal danger for homeless people. California scrambling to help
- San Francisco Chronicle: Pacheco Reservoir dam spillway fails, San Benito County residents warned to prepare for evacuations
- The Washington Post: As powerful storms deluge California, a river community evacuates — again
- San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area storms: What to do if you’re caught in a flood in your car or home