LOS ANGELES — As steady snowfall continued to present hazards in the mountains of Southern California on Saturday, residents at lower elevations dealt with the fallout from a more familiar threat: flooding. Intense rains and powerful winds that pounded Los Angeles and surrounding counties on Friday night and early Saturday produced significant flooding in urban…
The body of an 11-week-old boy was found in a submerged vehicle in Pax, W.Va., on Friday after heavy rains poured across the state this week and caused dangerous flooding in some rural parts, the authorities said. On Friday morning, after up to three inches fell in some areas over two days, the Fayette County…
CARPINTERIA, Calif. — As rain lashed Southern California overnight, parts of the Los Angeles area experienced flooding — an unusual twist for a typically dry, sunny place where people tend to worry about droughts. Forecasters warned that little relief was expected on Tuesday. Rainfall in many parts of the state has exceeded a foot since…
And with more storms on the horizon, the mountains could see more rain that may lead to flooding. “Now that we have a saturated snowpack, we’re probably not going to get a lot more storage from the rain that falls on it,” said Andrew Schwartz, the lead scientist and manager at the Central Sierra Snow…
Karla Nemeth, the director of the California Department of Water Resources, the agency that manages the Golden State’s most precious resource, said that California must toe a fine line during intense winter storms. On one hand, the state desperately needs winter rain and snow to replenish water supplies before the annual dry spell that often…
More heavy rain was expected on Tuesday morning in Kentucky, potentially complicating efforts to find hundreds of people still unaccounted for days after severe flooding left at least 37 dead. Nearly two million people across parts of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia were under a flood watch through the morning, when quick-moving storms were forecast…
Yellowstone National Park employees led 10,000 visitors to safety this week as storms washed away roads and bridges, while nearby residents escaped as their homes were battered by mudslides and flooding brought on by record rainfall and melting snow. Billings, a southern Montana city home to nearly 120,000 people, asked residents to conserve water after…