Newest round of storms expected to produce torrential downpours and gale force winds along the northern coast
and repairing the damage may cost more than $1bn, said Adam Smith, a disaster expert with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Crews worked to reopen major highways that were closed by rockslides, swamped by flooding or smothered with mud. More than 10,000 people who were ordered out of seaside towns on the central coast were allowed to return home.
Officials in central California resumed the search for a five-year-old boy who was swept away by raging floodwaters this week near the small village of San Miguel, the local sheriff’s department said. While some emergency orders were lifted, thousands of people living near rain-swollen creeks and rivers remained under evacuation. In the San Joaquin Valley, raging waters from Bear Creek flooded parts of the city of Merced and neighboring Planada, a small agricultural community along a highway leading to Yosemite national park. Neighborhoods were under water with cars submerged up to their roofs, and all 4,000 residents of Planada were ordered to leave Tuesday morning.
An aerial view of two cars in a large sinkhole in Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, on 10 January.
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