Emergency officials in California’s San Luis Obispo County spent early Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers after an atmospheric river storm drenched the already-saturated state with torrential rain, raising the flooding risk in some areas.
Some personnel spent the night in trailers watching for flooding in low-lying areas across the county, which was hit hard by heavy downpours in January, causing a levy to fail and damaging homes.
Gusty winds accompanying the showers are also expected to uproot trees loosely anchored in rain-soaked soils. It marks the latest of 10 such California storms since Christmas, adding to an exceptionally wet, snowy winter in a state that in recent years has been plagued far more by drought and wildfires than by severe precipitation.The growing frequency and intensity of such storms amid bouts of prolonged drought are symptomatic of human-caused climate change, experts say.
Six inches of rain were expected to fall in the area, causing parts of the rapidly rising San Lorenzo River to reach a major flood stage of 22 feet and cause “life threatening” flash flooding, the service said.
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