LOS ANGELES, U.S - California has been battered by storms for the past week and Los Angeles has been flooded by 7.67inches of rain since Thursday last week – when the average rainfall for December is 1.91.West leaving motorists stranded in their cars and forcing hundreds to flee their homes.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced a state of emergency for the worst hit areas and rescuers have been battling to clear flooded roads before more predicted storms threaten to hit a state where shirt sleeves weather is taken for granted in December.
The storms have also hit Arizona, where a holiday home collapsed into the mud after a river burst its banks.Meteorologist Brian Edwards, of AccuWeather, said: “This has been an unbelievably wet week. ”
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