Photos: Battered by flooding, California braces for more rain
Times Photography Staff
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An aerial view of four cliff-side, ocean-view apartment buildings, which were evacuated and tagged on Wednesday in San Clemente. The bluff is still moving, officials said. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
California’s 11th atmospheric river storm of the season barreled through a beleaguered state Tuesday, dropping more rain and snow, sending thousands once again scrambling for higher ground and leaving more than 300,000 without power.
More than a dozen locations along major rivers including areas along the Salinas, Sacramento and Merced rivers, were overflowing as the high-impact storm moved south through the state. The Pajaro River, which suffered a levee breach from a similar storm last week, continued to spill water onto neighboring farmlands and communities.
At least 90 flood watches, warnings and advisories were in effect statewide, as were avalanche warnings in portions of Mono and Inyo counties and the Lake Tahoe area, according to the National Weather Service, which said the storm would “create considerable to locally catastrophic flooding impacts below 5,000 feet elevation.”
An exasperated Irineo Zaragoza, left, looks over his flooded home in Woodlake on Wednesday as his wife, Veronica, tries to salvage personal items. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
The neighborhood at Hillside Estates in Woodlake in Tulare County is flooded on Wednesday after the previous night's heavy rains. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Madisyn Liles, holding 1-year-old Luka, watches with her husband, Keylan, as two pumps work throughout the day on Wednesday to remove water from their flooded home in Woodlake. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Don Stinson is rescued from mud by the Swift Water Rescue Team from the state Office of Emergency Services. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times)
Both sides of Pacific Coast Highway were closed on Wednesday due to flooding between Warner Avenue and Seapoint Street in Huntington Beach. Reopening times were not announced. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)
A man rescues his two birds from his home along Salinas Road in Pajaro, Calif. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Residents check out the damage Tuesday after the swollen Tule River crumbled parts of Globe Drive in Springville, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Local police drive a military vehicle along flooded Salinas Road in Pajaro. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
A farmworker clears a drain in the Watsonville area. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
The Kaweah River roars through the landscape in Three Rivers, Calif. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
Floodwaters surround farm machinery in Pajaro in Monterey County. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
Pamela and Patrick Cerruti empty coins from Pajaro Coin Laundry machines. "We lost it all. That's half a million dollars of equipment," said Pamela, who added that they plan to rebuild. (Noah Berger / Associated Press)
Floodwaters surround homes and vehicles in the community of Pajaro in Monterey County. (Noah Berger/Associated Press)
The Tule River rages through Springville, Calif., washing away the foundation of a home Saturday. (Tomas Ovalle / For The Times)
An aerial view of almond blossom trees in a flooded area of Tulare County on Saturday. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A lake that dried up 80 years ago looked set on Tuesday to reappear, as monster rainfall accumulated over California's wet winter season overwhelms the state's rivers.In California's Central Valley, authorities issued evacuation orders for residents of communities in Tulare County, where a lake that dried up around World War II was set to reappear.
A "bomb cyclone" is wreaking havoc across an already soaked California, killing at least two people whose vehicles were crushed by falling trees in the San Francisco Bay Area, officials said. A dramatic drop in atmospheric pressure triggered the so-called bomb cyclone that swept in from the Pacific Ocean and clobbered the San Francisco area. The storm packed heavy rain and wind gusts of up to 90 mph that knocked down trees, blocking major roadways and highways, officials said.
It’s been quite the winter for snow lovers in the West, but too much of the white stuff has turned into a nightmare for people living near Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada border, as the region has now reported two of its snowiest months on record with more still to come.
No one really knows how much snow fell on the infamous Donner Party when the pioneers were trapped atop the Sierra Nevada for months and dozens died near Lake Tahoe in the winter of 1846-47. Over the weekend, the “winter that just doesn’t want to end” as the National Weather Service in Reno put it, topped the previous No. 2 record of 55.9 feet (671 inches, 17 meters) set in 1982-83.
Men who appear to be affiliated with the Proud Boys were bloodied and arrested on Sunday at a NYC Drag Story Hour event, videos shared on Twitter show.
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake rattled much of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Tuesday, sending panicked residents fleeing from homes and offices and frightening people in remote villages. More than 200 people were brought to hospitals in the Swat valley and elsewhere in the region of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in a state of shock, Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Pakistan's emergency services told The Associated Press.
Alex Murdaugh's jail call with an attorney during his trial was accidentally released, and a lawyer for the convicted killer is fuming over the breach.
