A 'brutal' storm system building over the Pacific Ocean was poised to slam across Northern California on Wednesday, battering a region already struggling from a weekend of record rains and flooding.
Emergency crews in California worked to reopen flooded roads and rescue stranded drivers, including people trapped in submerged vehicles.A"brutal" storm system building over the Pacific Ocean was poised to slam across Northern California on Wednesday, battering a region already struggling from aThe National Weather Service in San Francisco warned in a statement that the impact from the heavy rains would be widespread through Friday and could lead to deaths.
"The impacts will include widespread flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down , widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life," the statement said."This is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously." that swept across much of the state dumped more than 5 inches of rain on San Francisco over the weekend and was bringing havoc to the nation's midsection.
►Winter Storm Warnings and Winter Weather Advisories were in effect for much of Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and for portions of northern Michigan and the higher elevations of Arizona and New Mexico. ►Ice Storm Warnings were in effect for portions of central and eastern Nebraska through northwestern Iowa and southern Minnesota.8 MORE INCHES OF RAIN? At least three tornadoes were reported Monday in the South-Central U.S. The National Weather Service said it had reports of a damaging twister in Montrose, Arkansas, that trapped people in their homes.
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