California storm: 27M residents under flood watch with sweeping atmospheric river

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Another atmospheric river is sweeping through California dumping more rain on an area already drenched the flooding is so severe Santa Barbara’s airport had to completely shut down many roads have turned into rivers we’re counting in the six to 7 Ines of rain up in the Foothills at this point so all that

Water has to come Downstream in Orange County multi-million dollar Cliffside homes are teetering on the edge of collapse while mudslides threaten hundreds of others every single night I wake up one wondering is the mud going to come down again into the house again dozens of residents have seen their

Homes reduced to Rubble including some in this Los Angeles suburb there’s three families who are are out of their homes and of course waiting on this recovery effort to be able to get back in scientists blame global warming for the increased number of atmospheric Rivers striking California saying warmer air

Holds more moisture residents anxious to get back into their homes will have to wait because even more precipitation is in the forecast and the rain continues uh looking at another additional period of heavy rain and that could have uh result in additional flash flooding potentially landslides and um in and

Around Southern California many major roads have collapsed from landslides including the famous malland Drive officials are trying to use sandbags to stop the water often times with little luck there’s lots of hillsides lots of Falling Rocks and trees uh so the roads are very hazardous while some residents

Have been ordered to evacuate their homes others are being told to stay home and off the roads with water rescues piling up and if it was a little flooded I would have done it but that is a Lake Road repairs could take weeks and in some cases months but the rebuilding

Can’t start until the rain finally ends Jennifer Johnson Global News Washington

Twenty-seven million people have been put on a flood watch as California’s winter weather of relentless rain continued again on Tuesday.

As yet another atmospheric river sweeps through California, the flooding has become so severe in Santa Barbara that roads have been engulfed by water and become rivers.

Highways, streets and a local airport have been forced to close as a result of the damage — with homes, too, being threatened by landslides.

Global’s Jennifer Johnson has the latest.

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13 COMMENTS

  1. Simple fact: there's no such thing as an "atmospheric river." If they existed, they could show a photo of one. They don't! It is really a "storm front" which dumps a lot of rain. Southern California is very dry, and the soil cannot retain much moisture; so, any rain tends to wash away loose soil and flood their storm sewers (useless, as there's not much rain). Terrible, if it might rain more than a few hours, (relentless), and threaten millions with a "flood watch." Our weather would kill them!

  2. California is also paved from one end to the other. Rain runs off rapidly. Overwhelms the stormwater system. Look at historical floods in 1861-1862, 1969, 1964, 1986, and 1978 — almost all in Dec. to Mar. Nothing new here.

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