The latest in a series of atmospheric river storms soaked California, bringing another deluge of rain to the already-saturated state, while a Nor’easter swirling over New York and New England prompted emergency orders and closed roads. | Reuters
In anticipation of the “atmospheric river” — an airborne current of dense, tropical moisture from the Pacific streaming over the landscape — emergency crews filled sandbags and patrolled levees and riverbanks around the clock.
Even as the 11th atmospheric river of the season soaked the region once more on Tuesday, emergency crews scrambled to patch the Parajo’s earthen levee with rocks and fill. Nobody was hurt. A fire department captain had warned the day before that the tree, perched on the edge of a bluff, could fall atop the building, prompting staff to move all 20 patients to the opposite side of the facility, where they were safe when the captain’s prediction came true, Hoppin said.Mandatory evacuation orders because of flood hazards remained in effect for residents in 10 California counties on Tuesday, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Supplies of rock salt and snow shovels were flying off shelves on Tuesday at Rocky’s Ace Hardware in Worcester, Massachusetts, west of Boston, said the manager, Joshua Rivera. “We have wires down everywhere. We have trees down everywhere, and it’s not going to get any better,” the agency said on its Facebook page.
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