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   LOS ANGELES — A storm of historic proportions dumped a record amount of   
   rain over parts of Los Angeles on Monday, sending mud and boulders down   
   hillsides dotted with multimillion-dollar homes while people living in   
   homeless encampments in many parts of the city scrambled for safety.   
      
   More than one million people statewide were without power.   
      
   The storm was the second one fueled by an atmospheric river to hit the   
   state over the span of days.   
      
   About 2.5 million people in the Los Angeles area, including the Hollywood   
   Hills and Beverly Hills, were under a flash flood warning.   
      
   Up to 9 inches (23 centimeters) of rain had already fallen in the area,   
   with more expected, according to the National Weather Service, which   
   called the flash flooding and threat of mudslides “a particularly   
   dangerous situation.”   
      
   Already crews were rescuing people from swift-moving water in various   
   parts of Southern California, including two homeless people who were   
   evacuated Monday from a small island in the Santa Ana River in San   
   Bernardino, about 55 miles (88.51 kilometers) east of Los Angeles,   
   authorities said.   
      
   Gushing rivers carried mud, rocks and household objects downhill as   
   floodwaters coursed through Studio City, an area on the backside of the   
   Hollywood Hills.   
      
   Sixteen Studio City residents were evacuated and two homes were damaged,   
   city officials said.   
      
   “It looks like a river that’s been here for years,” said Keki Mingus,   
   whose neighbors’ homes were damaged. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”   
      
   The Los Angeles Fire Department said 1,000 firefighters were contending   
   with 49 debris flows, 130 reports of flooding, half a dozen structure   
   fires and several rescues of motorists stranded in vehicles.   
      
   Drake Livingston who lives in the Beverly Crest neighborhood, was watching   
   a movie around midnight when a friend alerted him to flooding.   
      
   “We looked outside and there’s a foot-and-a-half of running water, and it   
   starts seeping through the doors,” Livingston said.   
      
   Livingston scrambled to save some possessions but eventually had to   
   retreat to a neighbor’s house. In the morning, Livingston’s car was   
   submerged in several feet of mud.   
      
   Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass urged residents to avoid driving, warning of   
   fallen trees and electrical lines on flooded roadways.   
      
   Over 10 inches (25.4 centimeters) of rain has fallen in the Santa Monica   
   Mountains. Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said hazards will   
   continue to be a threat in areas around recent wildfire burn scars, noting   
   that rain is forecast to continue into Tuesday.   
      
   A record 4.1 inches (10.41 centimeters) of rain fell Sunday in downtown   
   Los Angeles, making it the 10th wettest day on record, the National   
   Weather Service said. That’s more rain than the area typically gets for   
   the entire month.   
      
   That didn’t stop the Grammy Awards on Sunday night from continuing as   
   planned at downtown’s Crypto.com Arena.   
      
   The weather service forecast up to 8 inches (20 centimeters) of rainfall   
   across Southern California’s coastal and valley areas, with 14 inches (35   
   centimeters) possible in the foothills and mountains over the next two   
   days.   
      
   Commuters stepped through several inches of floodwater on Monday morning   
   as they rushed to catch trains at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.   
      
   The storm over the weekend inundated streets and brought down trees and   
   electrical lines throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, while the weather   
   service issued a rare “hurricane force wind warning” for the Central   
   Coast. Several people had to be rescued from rising floodwaters, including   
   those in cars and others living in a homeless encampments.   
      
   In Yuba City, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of San Francisco,   
   police said they were investigating the death of a man found under a big   
   redwood tree in his backyard Sunday evening.   
      
   A neighbor heard the tree fall, and it was possible the man was using a   
   ladder to try and clear the redwood when he was killed, police said on   
   Facebook.   
      
   In Southern California, off the coast of Long Beach, 19 people were   
   rescued Sunday after the 40-foot sailboat they were traveling in lost its   
   mast, said Brian Fisk, a firefighter and paramedic for the Long Beach Fire   
   Department.   
      
   Another vessel heard the distress call on the marine radio and helped   
   rescue eight people while 11 were able to get onto the rocky breakwater by   
   Alamitos Bay where they were rescued by lifeguards, he said. One person   
   was treated for injuries.   
      
   “They went out sailing in gale-force winds and stormy weather,” Fisk said.   
   “They’re very, very lucky.”   
      
   Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency for most counties in   
   coastal Southern California and said emergency resources were ready, while   
   emergency shelters were opened.   
      
   Most public schools in Los Angeles were open, though other districts   
   called off classes.   
      
   Heavy snow was falling throughout the Sierra Nevada and motorists were   
   urged to avoid mountain roads.   
      
   Much of the state was still drying out from the initial atmospheric river-   
   powered storm that blew in last week. Atmospheric rivers are relatively   
   narrow plumes of moisture that form over an ocean and can produce   
   torrential amounts of rain as they move over land.   
      
   Both atmospheric rivers were called a “Pineapple Express” because they   
   originated near Hawaii.   
      
   Since last winter, 46 atmospheric rivers have made landfall on the US West   
   Coast, pulling the state out of a yearslong drought, according to the   
   Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Center for Western Weather and Water   
   Extremes.   
      
   Nine were categorized as strong, two were extreme and one was exceptional.   
      
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