Ellen Degeneres shared a video of herself standing next to a flooding creek near her Montecito, California home almost exactly five years after fires and mudslides ravaged the seaside community.
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Thousands of Californians fled their homes, and the death toll from the wave of devastating storms rose to 14 as the latest “atmospheric river” slammed a wide swath of the state with gale-force winds and more than a foot of rain.
“The endless onslaught of potent systems with atmospheric rivers of moisture continue to inundate California,” the National Weather Service said in a statement. “Torrential rain, widespread flooding, rapid water rises, mudslides and landslides with possible debris flows, heavy mountain snow and gusty high winds all remain threats to the Golden State.”
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