{"id":3109,"date":"2023-01-02T02:44:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T08:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2023-03-14T02:11:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T07:11:44","slug":"1-dead-in-california-flooding-after-storm-soaks-san-francisco-causes-power-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"<strong>1 dead in California flooding after storm soaks San Francisco, causes power outages<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crews worked to rescue stranded drivers and reopen flooded roadways as the new year began after an\u00a0intense storm system caused power outages, landslides and flooding\u00a0in portions of California.<br \/>\nMore than 100,000 people were without power in the state on Sunday afternoon,\u00a0according to poweroutage.us. In Sacramento County, dozens of people\u00a0trapped in\u00a0partially or completely submerged vehicles have been rescued, according to\u00a0Dan Quiggle, deputy fire chief of the Cosumnes Fire Department.<br \/>\nQuiggle said one person was found dead inside a submerged vehicle at about 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Previously\u00a0a person was reported missing who<br \/>\nCalifornia storm creates hazardous travel<br \/>\nDozens of drivers also had to be rescued along a snow-covered\u00a0Interstate 80 near Lake Tahoe on New Year&#8217;s Eve, and the route to the mountains from the San Francisco Bay Area reopened to passenger vehicles with chains Sunday morning. In some areas of the state, roads are still impassable due to flooding or snow.<br \/>\n&#8220;For many areas of the state flooding and snow closures still exist,&#8221; the California Department of Transportation said Sunday.<br \/>\nAtmospheric river soaks San Francisco<br \/>\nThe storms were the\u00a0result of an atmospheric river of moisture\u00a0\u2014 a long and wide plume of moisture pulled in from the Pacific.<br \/>\nMagnitude 5.4 earthquake near Eureka<br \/>\nMeanwhile,\u00a0a magnitude 5.4 earthquake\u00a0was recorded Sunday morning at about 10:35\u00a0near Eureka, in an area that was\u00a0already recovering from a 6.4 quake on Dec. 20, killing two, injuring at least 17 and significantly damaging buildings in Humboldt County.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/weather\/2023\/01\/01\/california-weather-flooding-earthquake\/10978222002\/\">Usatoday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crews worked to rescue stranded drivers and reopen flooded roadways as the new year began after an\u00a0intense storm system caused power outages, landslides and flooding\u00a0in portions of California. More than 100,000 people were without power in the state on Sunday afternoon,\u00a0according to poweroutage.us. In Sacramento County, dozens of people\u00a0trapped in\u00a0partially or completely submerged vehicles have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1189,3212,1323,1218],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-california","tag-fire-department","tag-francisco","tag-storm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7404,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/7404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}