Though often in Southern California it is more desertified inland, it is northern California taking the brunt likely of this latest storm. But, the desert like Southern California has less foilage and less rain can be a disaster there because there is basically nothing there to hold the water back many places which could create major mud slides and rocks slides throughout the area.
Whereas Flooding in Northern California is a real problem now because of this almost constant rain for weeks now.
Under normal conditions we could withstand this Level 5 Storm (IF) we hadn't already had approximately 150% of normal rainfall so far in many many areas already. So, this latest storm could be a real disaster in the making especially for northern California from Eureka to Morro Bay and possibly further south.
Watsonville for example, near Santa Cruz has a mandatory evacuation for most of the area. The San Lorenzo river has overflowed it's banks in the last storm and wiped out a retirement community already. This time it could be much worse than before. Before it was only a foot or so deep there but this time it could be much much worse. Ben Lomand received over 7 inches of rain in one day last New Years Eve I believe which is a lot of rain for any place on earth to sustain in one day. Ben Lomand is in the Santa Cruz Mountains above the city of Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz is on the coast north of Watsonville, California.
And beyond that, the storms just seem to be keeping on coming with Atmospheric rivers and all and each one at this point seems to be making things worse and worse.
Rain in California has always been "Feast or Famine" but this isn't feast or famine the way this is going, this is just flooding, flooding and more flooding with no end in sight. (At least at this point).
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