Millions of residents face flood warnings and nearly 50,000 people are under evacuation orders in California because of heavy rains, lightning, hail and landslides.
Theo Harris, who has been living on the streets of San Francisco since getting out of jail in 2016, fortified his shelter with tarps and zip ties and took in his girlfriend after her tent flooded.
"Rain is part of life. It's going to be sunny. It's going to rain. I just got to strap my boots up and not give up."The storms have created what Mr Newsom called a "weather whiplash," swinging from an epic drought to the other extreme and arriving with a fury and frequency likely to create problems well into next week.In an aerial view, a flooded area by the overflowing San Ysidro creek on Jameson Lane is seen near the closed Highway 101 in Montecito.
"It's fair to say that what we're seeing right now in California will certainly help to relieve some of the localised aspects of drought, but will not resolve the long-term drought challenges," said Rick Spinrad, administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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