Another powerful storm pummeled 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," Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor, said Saturday on Twitter.
"Just the noise of the fire department -- their sirens and all -- woke us up," said Moses, a resident of the area for around 20 years who preferred to give only his first name. After returning home from surveying the flooding, Moses said water was beginning to cover his street.The area remained under a flood warning Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service said.
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 nine inches of rain on already saturated grounds.
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