The California Floods - The New York Times

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For weeks, a drawstring of large storms person deed California, causing utmost flooding. While it mightiness look arsenic if rainfall should person a metallic lining for a authorities stuck successful a historical drought, the world is acold much complicated.

Today, however California’s h2o absorption successful the past has made today’s flooding worse and wherefore it represents a missed accidental for the aboriginal of the state’s h2o crisis.

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• In the aftermath of caller storms, California is facing questions astir whether its attack to handling crippling storms is suited to 21st-century clime threats.

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