Another powerful storm pummeled California overnight into Saturday, forcing thousands to evacuate and resulting in at least two deaths, while causing a levee to give way in coastal Monterey County.
“We were hoping to avoid and prevent this situation, but the worst case scenario has arrived with the Pajaro River overtopping and levee breaching at about midnight,” Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor, said Saturday on Twitter.
On Friday, state emergency services director Nancy Ward announced that the storm had already claimed at least two lives.
Images posted on Twitter by the state’s National Guard account showed guardsmen rescuing residents trapped in their cars by high water.
At least one road was washed away in Santa Cruz County, just north of Monterey.
Residents in several towns, mostly in the north, have been ordered to evacuate.
An unusually intense and seemingly endless series of storms has…
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