Flooded California Residents Rescued, Portland Hit with Snow

Crews using boats Wednesday rescued about 50 Northern California farmland residents trapped in flooded homes and normally rainy Portland, Oregon, was slammed with a rare foot of snow as a powerful storm system battered five western U.S. states. In Nevada, at least 20,000 people near Lake Tahoe had no electricity as the storm fed by an “atmospheric river” weather phenomenon that sucked water from the Pacific Ocean downed trees and caused mudslides that damaged power lines. Reports of...

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