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Storms ease in Calif., but emergency far from over

• John Bacon and Chelcey Adami

Dozens of people had to be rescued from their flooded homes in San Jose. The city declared a local emergency Tuesday afternoon "in response to the current and anticipated flooding," the city tweeted. This allows for mandatory evacuations to be ordered.

The series of storms, which dumped up to 10 inches of rain on Southern California late last week, roared through Northern California on Monday and Tuesday. The region's waterways, already saturated by weeks of heavy rains, were ill-equipped for the latest onslaught.

San Francisco was slammed with almost 2 inches of rain; some areas in the mountains got more than 6 inches. One wind gust reached 199 mph. Although the storms eased Tuesday, the emergency was far from over.


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