So far, the downpours are largely in line with past storms, an official said. But their quick pace is testing the limits of the state’s infrastructure.
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The media was abuzz last week with stories about a greatly increased threat of a massive flooding event along the West Coast, termed an ARk Storm. The immediate stimulus of this apocalyptic vision was a recent paper by Xingying Huang and Daniel.