Nearly 26 million people in California were covered by a flood watch Saturday as fresh rain and storms move through the state, bringing fresh flooding, mudslides and traffic snarls to areas exhausted by severe weather in recent weeks.
Gov. Gavin Newsom asked the public to prepare for the ninth atmospheric river that is set to hit Sunday night going into Monday. He added that erosion and tree damage that will continue even after rainfall stops.“The challenges may present themselves over the course of the next few days rather acutely. Particularly because everything’s saturated, particularly because the grounds are overwhelmed,” Newsom said.
Late Saturday, Biden did issue a disaster declaration for Merced, Sacramento and Santa Cruz counties.Newsom spoke to reporters during a visit to an emergency shelter in Merced, a city in California’s San Joaquin Valley that experienced record flooding from a local creek. Displaced families were staying on cots.
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