Mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for residents in 10 California counties, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
LOS ANGELES, USA – California, reeling from a month-long string of late-winter storms, braced for another bout of heavy rains, wind, and snow on Monday, March 13, while most of New York state and New England girded for a powerful Nor’easter.
Mandatory evacuation orders remained in effect for residents in 10 California counties, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some of the heaviest rain, as much as 10 inches , could fall in the Santa Barbara and San Bernardino mountains of Southern California, state climatologist Michael Anderson told reporters on Monday.
Anderson predicted additional precipitation from the looming storm, and one or two more still forming behind it in the Pacific, would likely push the southern Sierra snowpack to all-time historic levels, surpassing a 1969 record. One evacuee from the flood-stricken community of Pajaro, farm worker Pedro Rangel, 42, attempted to return to his home on Monday but said he could not penetrate the mud and water surrounding his residence.
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