Emergency crews in California worked to reopen flooded roads and rescue stranded drivers, some trapped in submerged vehicles.
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Crews worked to rescue stranded drivers and reopen flooded roadways as the new year began after an intense storm system caused power outages, landslides and flooding in portions of California.
More than 100,000 people were without power in the state on Sunday afternoon, according to poweroutage.us. In Sacramento County, dozens of people trapped in partially or completely submerged vehicles have been rescued, according to Dan Quiggle, deputy fire chief of the Cosumnes Fire Department.
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Nature is smarter than people think
In my city of East Palo Alto, we had a power outage. When it came back on over here in California, it took all for comcast to turn back on our cable and internet.
✝️🛐🙏🙏🙏
Where? I’m in SoCal
Channel all this water to Lake Mead!!!! Since it’s drying up let’s put this water to good use
And this this global warming doing.. 😳
no wildfires ?
A little show in my love ❤️❤️❤️ California ❤️❤️
These buffoons can’t take of themselves yet the demand to tell the whole world how to live!
Gods telling you to get some morals but with hollyweird around not going to happen
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😋😍🤩💖
Where’s Nancy?
Save some water for the fires!!!