PAJARO, United States - Another powerful storm pummelled California overnight into Saturday, forcing thousands to evacuate and resulting in at least two deaths, while causing a levee to give way in coastal Monterey County. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PAJARO, United States - Another powerful storm pummelled California overnight into Saturday, forcing thousands to evacuate and resulting in at least two deaths, while causing a levee to give way in coastal Monterey County.
“We were hoping to avoid and prevent this situation, but the worst case scenario has arrived with the Pajaro River overtopping and levee breaching at about midnight,” Mr Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor, said on Saturday on Twitter. On Friday, state emergency services director Nancy Ward announced that the storm had already claimed at least two lives.
Images posted on Twitter by the state’s National Guard account showed guardsmen rescuing residents trapped in their cars by high water.Residents in several towns, mostly in the north, have been ordered to evacuate.The latest storm was expected to dump as much as 23cm of rain on already saturated grounds.– for the warm, subtropical moisture it brings from Hawaii – this latest storm will speed the melting of the enormous snowpack that has built up in higher elevations.
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