Winter storms have dumped enough rain and snow on the northern part of the state to end a five-year drought. A section of mountain highway between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe has buckled, with repairs estimated to cost $6.5 million. Expand / Contract Erosion caused when overflow water cascaded down the emergency spillway, right, of the Oroville Dam in California. The tally includes $595 million to clean up mudslides and repair state highways. Storms in January cost Sonoma County, north of San Francisco, $12.5 million, mostly for road work.

Source: Fox News February 25, 2017 00:22 UTC