Disastrous flooding could hit parts of California this weekend, forecasters warned Friday, as the eighth storm in succession barreled in, with already water-logged land unable to soak up any more rain.
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At least 19 people are known to have died as communities have struggled to cope with the constant deluge. “Residents both on the peninsula and in the Salinas area should expect to be cut off for two to three days,” Monterey County officials said earlier this week. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses have been left without power at various times, as infrastructure has taken a battering.“The ongoing unsettled weather in the West associated with the active Atmospheric River pattern unfortunately continues into this weekend with another couple rounds of heavy precipitation forecast,” the NWS said.
Winter storms are not unusual in California, where most of the annual rain comes in a fairly concentrated period.
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