On Saturday, the SBA announced that they would be making low-interest disaster loans available to people whose homes and businesses were affected by Januaryβs storms
A storm that parked itself over Southern California for days, unleashing historic downpours that caused hundreds of landslides, is expected to move out of the region after one final drenching. But authorities say it leaves behind the threat of dangerous mudslides because the soaked soil cannot hold any more water.
Los Angeles officials says crews had responded to at least 475 mudslides and that seven buildings had been deemed uninhabitable since an atmospheric river-fueled storm moved into the region over the weekend.
A storm of historic proportions has unleashed record levels of rain over parts of Los Angeles. The weather is endangering the cityβs large homeless population, sending mud and boulders down hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes and knocking out power for more than a million people in California.
Punxsutawney Phil has forecasted an early spring from the largest and best-known Groundhog Day celebration in the United States at an overcast Gobblerβs Knob in western Pennsylvania. The annual event was held shortly after sunrise on Friday.