SAN FRANCISCO  — Another wet winter storm swamped California with heavy rainfall on Monday, flooding the runways at a regional airport and leading to several rescues on swollen rivers and creeks.
The Santa Barbara airport, on the state's central coast, closed Monday after as much as 25 centimeters of rain had fallen in the area by noon, covering the runways with water and closing the airport.
The National Weather Service had warned that California's central coast was at risk of "significant flooding,"... Читать дальше...