Laurie Morse shoveled wet sand into bags in the pouring rain Wednesday, preparing to stack them along her garage in a last ditch effort to keep out a rising creek on Californiaβs central coast.
A strong cold front on Thursday will bring an isolated severe weather threat to the area. In wake of the front, the mountains will see accumulating snow!
Storm-ravaged California is scrambling to clean up and repair widespread damage as the lashing rain eases. Forecasts call for thunderstorms Wednesday in the north and then another powerful weather front later this week. Crews are working 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 Tuesday.
The Charlotte area has seen at least a trace of snow every winter in over 130 years of recordkeeping. A warmer climate may put that streak in jeopardy.
A North Carolina mountain city where thousands were facing water outages will resume production Wednesday at a water treatment facility at the heart of the problem, officials said.