REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain and flash flooding soaked roads in northern California, leading to water rescues from vehicles and homes and at least one confirmed death, authorities said.
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In Redding, police said they received numerous calls for stranded motorists on Sunday who tried to drive through flooded areas. One person in Redding died, Mayor Mike Littau posted online. He did not provide further information.
Redding has about 93,000 people and is about 160 miles (257 kilometers) north of Sacramento.
Between 3 and 6 inches (7.6 centimeters and 15.2 centimeters) had fallen by Sunday night in parts of two counties, the National Weather Service said.
In the mountain pass area of Donner Summit, firefighters in Truckee extended a ladder to stranded residents at a house along the South Yuba River, the fire department posted online Sunday. No injuries were reported.
The weather service office in Sacramento had said a series of warm atmospheric rivers would bring moderate to heavy rain to the Valley, foothills, and mountains the week of Christmas.
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands of water vapor that form over an ocean and flow through the sky, transporting moisture from the tropics to northern latitudes.
Earlier this month, warm weather and air and unusual weather conditions tracing back as far as tropical cyclone flooding in Indonesia helped supercharge stubborn atmospheric rivers that drenched Washington state with nearly 5 trillion gallons (19 trillion liters) of rain in a week, threatening record flood levels, meteorologists said.
AP and their ilk have been trying for years to bring European concepts into the US “culture”. They don’t like American uniqueness (ie they don’t think America as a life system is better than Europe), so they want to slowly switch some of our distinctive differences to the European style. This article has a large number of these attempts, gallons to liters, miles to kilometers, inches to centimeters, and it is a subtle reminder of how grateful we all should be that this “movement” has thus far failed. We are different from the hell-hole that is Europe, not only in the distant past but even more recently and unfortunately very much nowadays, and it’s good to keep our differences alive just for the sake of remembering that we strive for better values.