California Storm Leaves a Dozen Dead and More Than 100,000 Without Power
At least a dozen people in California have died and over 100,000 across the state are suffering outages as the region battles heavy storms, which forecasters predict will continue in the coming days.
On Sunday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said that 12 people had died over the past 10 days in the state owing to extreme weather, with at least two people being killed on Sunday.
By the evening of Jan. 8, almost 3,000 people had been evacuated in Northern California, with roughly 200 staying in shelters.
California, which had already declared a state of emergency, requested a presidential emergency declaration on Sunday.
A storm had hit early Saturday morning and brought moderate rainfall to some coastal neighborhoods. A bomb cyclone, or a hurricane-force low-pressure system, and an atmospheric river, or an immense airborne stream of moisture from the ocean, have resulted in record snowfall and devastating floods in the past week….