California's 'endless onslaught' of severe weather forces thousands to flee their homes. 📷 Josh Edelson/AFP, in Gilroy, California
continued to batter the state, leaving one dead, a child missing and massive swaths of power outages on Tuesday.
A search for the child was called off Monday afternoon due to extreme conditions, said Tony Coppola, a spokesman for the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. As of 9 a.m. PT on Tuesday, more than 216,000 utility customers were without power across California, according toA flooded house in Gilroy, Calif., on Monday.Just as one episode of heavy rains across the state began to wind down, another low-pressure system rapidly gained strength off the West Coast, barreling toward the state, according to the National Weather Service.
Officials issued immediate evacuation orders Monday for the entire community of Montecito, which is home to a number of celebrities including, as well as for parts of Santa Barbara and other nearby towns amid heightened flood and mudslide hazards. The severe weather also forced the Santa Barbara Airport to close due to flooding, the airport announced in a"All commercial flights are canceled until further notice, and the terminal is closed," it said. The airport said its reopening would be"dependent on the weather and conditions."
"When we were passing by, we were like, 'Dang if we would have come in my car, this would have been a lot worse,'"she said."A 2023 Tacoma is very high."
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