Severe flooding and storm damage forced polling-place changes across five states on Election Day, as election officials scrambled to keep voting open while swollen rivers and washed-out roads cut off communities. The Election Day flooding, driven by a storm that dropped months’ worth of rain on parts of the Southwest and more than 20 inches … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Tropical Storm Rachel California made its mark this weekend, pounding Southern California with towering surf, coastal flooding, and heavy rain as the storm came ashore early Sunday and pushed inland as a post-tropical cyclone. In Newport Beach, the damage was extraordinary. Swell generated by the former hurricane combined with unusually high tides … Read more
A rare and powerful September nor’easter battered the northeastern United States over the weekend, flooding coastal communities from New Jersey to New England, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, and forcing the cancellation of hundreds of flights. The storm, which forecasters compared to Hurricane Sandy, killed one person in New … Read more