California braces for dangerous holiday weather as atmospheric rivers bring flooding, snow

At least one motorist died after becoming trapped in a vehicle filled with floodwater in Redding; rescue efforts saved others but were unsuccessful in this case.

As the holiday week drew near, northern California found itself in the grip of a relentless atmospheric siege — one that claimed at least one life in Redding when floodwaters rose faster than rescue could reach. The storms are not random misfortune but part of a recurring pattern of atmospheric rivers, those vast rivers of sky-borne moisture that have increasingly defined the West's winters. What arrives now as a weather warning carries within it a longer story: of fire-scarred hillsides made fragile, of mountain passes rendered impassable, and of families whose holiday gatherings hang in the

California braces for dangerous holiday weather as atmospheric rivers bring flooding, snow

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