Sonoma County sheriff’s officials on Wednesday announced a person had been found dead in a car submerged in 8 to 10 feet of water, bringing the total number of confirmed storm-related fatalities to 18.
Wednesday morning that it was “unsafe to go back into flooded areas” and the evacuation order was still in place.
The seventh atmospheric river storm since Christmas was expected to hit California on Wednesday, and more flooding is possible through the weekend. “It’s not that any individual storm is a big scary one — it’s what are the cumulative impacts, because it’s really rare for us to get into storms seven, eight and nine,” said Michael Anderson, state climatologist at the California Department of Water Resources. “We just don’t have that many in the historical record.”Lindsy and Brian Doan speak about their 5-year-old son Kyle, who went missing Monday after their car was swept away by floodwaters in San Luis Obispo County.
“So that gets us up into territories that we haven’t really seen, in terms of that much rain,” he said.
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