Overview
- The National Weather Service warns of a very dangerous atmospheric-river event with extreme rainfall and urges people to reconsider holiday travel.
- Los Angeles has issued evacuation orders and warnings affecting hundreds of properties, with officials reporting more than 100 households already evacuated.
- Authorities say they attempted to contact nearly 400 homes in high-risk areas, including Pacific Palisades and Malibu, where burn scars raise the threat of debris flows.
- California reports roughly four million sandbags pre-positioned, including 55,000 supersand bags, and local shelters have opened for evacuees.
- Early impacts include downed trees, road closures, localized flooding, thousands of power outages, a briefly issued tornado warning, and heavy Sierra Nevada snow expected.