California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in 43 of California's 58 counties. More than 130,000 homes and businesses remain without power.
dumped more torrential rain on California on Wednesday, March 15, forcing evacuations, power outages and road closures, while the remnants of a powerful Nor’easter blizzard buried much of upstate New York and New England under snow.
The governor has declared a state of emergency in 43 of California’s 58 counties. More than 130,000 homes and businesses remained without power on Wednesday, according to PowerOutage.us. Atmospheric river describes airborne currents of dense, tropical moisture from the Pacific. A series of them lashed California in rapid succession from late December through mid-January, killing at least 20 people.
Monterey County reissued an evacuation order for a 25-mile stretch along the Salinas River and Highway 101, most of it low-lying farmland. Numerous coastal and inland roads were closed. While agricultural communities got pummeled in the north, wealthy coastal communities took the brunt of the storm in southern California.
“It sounded kind of like an earthquake,” said C.J. Smith, 41, whose home was affected. He acknowledged the dangers that come with living on a bluff above the beach. “The views are beautiful. To us it’s kind of worth the risk.”In the Northeast, a late-winter blizzard dumped about 2 feet of snow in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut, and a foot or more in parts of New York’s Hudson Valley.
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