Floods, sinkholes, and landslides afflict California after a storm, 17 People’s Confirm Dead

Since the storms started last month, California has experienced more extreme winter weather, which has killed at least 17 people.

As the US state of California was hit by further severe winter weather, automobiles were swallowed by sinkholes, towns were flooded, and a young boy was carried off by floodwaters as the latest in a series of intense storms loomed on the horizon.

Tuesday’s torrential rains, lightning, hail, and landslides caused millions of citizens to be subject to flood warnings, over 50,000 people to be ordered to evacuate, and more than 110,000 houses and businesses to lose electricity.

According to Governor Gavin Newsom, storms that started late last month have killed at least 17 people.

In Southern California mountains, the storm that started on Monday delivered more than 45 centimeters (a foot and a half) of rain, while the Sierra Nevada ski resorts were covered in more than 1.5 meters (five feet) of snow.

Roads were closed down by landslides and rockfalls, while torrential runoff converted stretches of motorways into waterways.

Homes were submerged by swollen rivers, leaving people of small settlements stranded.

Parts of the city of Merced and the nearby farming village of Planada, which is located along a road leading to Yosemite National Park, were inundated by raging waves as they crested the banks of Bear Creek.

Neighborhoods were underwater, and cars’ roofs were up in the water.

Residents who were asked to leave hauled everything they could save out into the rain.