A flash flood left 20 cars underwater and residents forced to evacuate as widespread flooding devastated parts of California, US.
Residents had to be put up in a nearby hotel after the parking garage of the block of flats in Oakland was swamped.
The New Year’s Eve deluge that swamped the West Coast state killed one person, prompted the evacuation of more than 1,000 inmates in a county jail, and even washed away a section of a levee system that protects mostly rural farmland.
