The system was moving across the U.S. West into Wyoming and Colorado after walloping Northern California and southern Oregon a day earlier. Chris Parkman said it's been years since a storm so powerful has hit the hillside community, where at least 50 properties were evacuated. Water flows under railroad tracks after a levee breach during a rain storm in Novato, Calif. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)"We're basically stranded right now," said resident Gary Agner, adding that several other roads were closed because of flooding and debris. Trouble also persisted in saturated Northern California, where thousands of people lost power and flooding was possible. Nearly 37 per cent of California had no level of drought or abnormal dryness, the U.S. Drought Monitor reported Thursday.

Source: CBC News February 15, 2019 04:18 UTC