SAN FRANCISCO: California faces a long night of heavy rain and ferocious winds, as a powerful storm system adds to recent downpours that have burst levees and triggered mudslides.
The most intense rain was expected to hit the San Francisco Bay Area on Wednesday evening and then march inland, raising the risk of flooding across a wide swath of the state. Officials evacuated low-lying neighborhoods in a handful of communities and urged Californians to stay off the roads, saying the storm could be one of the biggest in five years.
