Intense storms highlight fragility of the state’s infrastructure, with 35 of 58 counties now under an emergency declaration
About two dozen people in southernwere forced to flee from their oceanside apartment buildings, as the hill beneath them started to crumble in torrential rains.
With more rainstorms coming, authorities in San Clemente said on Thursday there was no timetable for the residents to be allowed back into their homes.“The ground is continuing to move,” San Clemente’s mayor, Chris Duncan, said during a news conference. “So these structures are still in peril.” Across California, residents have been reeling from the effect of extreme weather, with a large portion of the state now covered by a presidential emergency declaration. California has been hit with 11
in a virtually nonstop series that has sparked floods and landslides, toppled trees, stranded mountain dwellers in historically deep snow and downed power lines, leaving thousands without electricity. Residents were evacuated from homes overlooking the Pacific Ocean coastline on Buena Vista due to the landslide.The intense storms are highlighting the fragility of some of the state’s infrastructure. In Pajaro, a town on California’s central coast, residents had to
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