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


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


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

Swallowed: A home in Washaway Beach, Washington, crashes into the Pacific as a winter storm hits the western United States Thursday




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



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


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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