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Friday, December 12, 2014

CALIFORNIA UNDER ASSAULT BY "PINEAPPLE EXPRESS" HUGE STORM - Images of chaos and destruction.

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UPDATED - 'River of rain' triggers mudslides consuming dozens of homes on the West Coast.  Entire beachside community wiped away, two dead and travel chaos across the west coast as the most powerful storm in five years threatens a FOOT of rain, flooding and hurricane-force 80MPH wind gusts.  
  • Parts of Northern California are bracing for as much as a foot of rain over just two days, with roads already flooded
  • Three homes swallowed by the Pacific Ocean in Washaway Beach, Washington, as storm pummeled the northwest
  • Storm brought hurricane force winds to the California coast, forcing airlines to cancel 240 flights at San Francisco
  • Mudslides have forced hundreds of people from their homes in Camarillo Springs and Glendora, California
  • The 2am-mudslide in Camarillo dumped rocks - some as large as couches - on the quiet streets on Friday and some piles reached the rooflines of homes, while other houses were filled with deep, thick mud
  • The mudslides hit areas previously ravaged by wildfires during the drought 
  • San Francisco had engineers standing by the Golden Gate Bridge to ensure it weathered the powerful gusts
  • Trains on the Bay Area Rapid Transit system, which carries 400,000 riders a day, delayed as two stations closed

  • A man finds the strength to smile after discovering his car almost completely submerged in flood waters in Guerneville, California
    A man finds the strength to smile after discovering his car almost completely submerged in flood waters in Guerneville, California

    Terrifying: An SUV is crushed by a massive oak tree during a storm in San Jose on Thursday. No injuries were reported
    Terrifying: An SUV is crushed by a massive oak tree during a storm in San Jose on Thursday. No injuries were reported


    Covered: At least eight houses were blocked by massive rocks that fell on Camarillo Springs, California in a mudslide on Friday
    Covered: At least eight houses were blocked by massive rocks that fell on Camarillo Springs, California in a mudslide on Friday
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    Covered: A worker stands atop a pile of rock and mud hours after the rocks were moved by heavy rain in the area on Friday

    To the rescue: A Los Angeles Fire Department worker drags himself along a rope towards a drowning couple in the engorged river
    To the rescue: A Los Angeles Fire Department worker drags himself along a rope towards a drowning couple in the engorged river

    Stretchered away: Rescuers crowd round the woman after she was pulled from the raging Los Angeles river Friday
    Rescued woman after she was pulled from raging river.
    Destroyed: The inside of a home can be seen in San Como Lane in Camarillo Springs following the devastating mudslide
    Destroyed: The inside of a home can be seen in San Como Lane in Camarillo Springs following the devastating mudslide
    Wreck: The same storm lashed northern and central California on Thursday with heavy rain and high winds, knocking out electricity to tens of thousands of homes, disrupting commercial flights and prompting school closures in the San Francisco Bay area
    Swallowed: A home in Washaway Beach, Washington, crashes into the Pacific as a winter storm hits the western United States Thursday



    Heave: A maintenance worker does his utmost to salvage a water from the rising floodwaters
    A vehicle powers through floodwaters at the Ashby Avenue railroad under a crossing in Berkeley, California

    Chaos: Commuters try to make their way along a highway in Corte Madera in Central Marin County as rain hammers down on the road
    Chaos: Commuters try to make their way along a highway in Corte Madera in Central Marin County as rain hammers down on the road


    Three people use a canoe to make their way through a flooded parking lot at a shopping center in Healdsburg, California
    People use canoes to make their way through a flooded parking lot at a shopping center in Healdsburg, California

    Heave: A maintenance worker does his utmost to salvage a water from the rising floodwaters
    Abandoned: The roof of a car protrudes above the surface of the water on Highway 237 in Mountain View, California



    Sources
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2870672/Major-storm-knocks-power-disrupts-flights-California.html

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2871854/Mudslides-damage-dozens-homes-Southern-California-powerful-storm-five-years-pummels-West-Coast.html
      
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