{"id":16542,"date":"2023-12-21T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/southern-california-hit-with-significant-rainfall-and-flooding-as-winter-storm-batters-area\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T21:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:56:19","slug":"southern-california-hit-with-significant-rainfall-and-flooding-as-winter-storm-batters-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/southern-california-hit-with-significant-rainfall-and-flooding-as-winter-storm-batters-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern California hit with significant rainfall and flooding as winter storm batters area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2023-12\/231221-southern-california-rain-storm-mjf-1000-4ff897.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">Heavy rain is battering Southern California as a powerful storm moved through the area, causing significant flooding and prompting warnings from officials of possible mudslides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Oxnard residents were told Thursday morning to stay off city streets for the next several hours until floodwaters receded. Video posted on social media showed streets completely underwater. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Many streets and intersections are heavily impacted by standing water, causing vehicles to stall and become trapped in flood water. Please remain indoors until the situation resolves,&#8221; Ventura County&#8217;s  Incident Information Source said on its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Many areas were under either evacuation orders or an evacuation warning. A shelter had been set up at the Oxnard College Gymnasium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ventura County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VENTURASHERIFF\/status\/1737781229838094710\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that in just one hour, many areas of Oxnard and Ventura had received over two inches of rain. It also urged people to avoid traveling. <\/p>\n<section class=\"embed-widget embedWidget embed-widget--medium\" data-testid=\"embed-widget\"\/>\n<p class=\"\">A portion of Southwest California \u2014 including Coachella Valley, Orange County coastal areas, and San Diego County coastal areas \u2014 is under a flood watch through Friday evening, according to the National Weather Service in San Diego. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;The heaviest rain with embedded thunderstorms is expected tonight through Friday morning,&#8221; the weather service said. &#8220;Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The wet weather could trigger debris slides and mudflows in recent burn areas, Los Angeles County Public Works said in a post on X Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">The slow-moving storm system is expected to move inland across Southern California through the first half of Friday, The Weather Channel reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline-contributors articleBylineContainer\">\n<div class=\"expanded-byline article-expanded-byline\" data-activity-map=\"expanded-byline-article-bottom\"><span class=\"byline-thumbnail byline-thumbnail--no-image expanded-byline__thumbnail\" data-testid=\"byline-thumbnail\"\/><span class=\"byline-name expanded-byline__name\" data-testid=\"byline-name\">Minyvonne Burke<\/span><span class=\"byline-social expanded-byline__social\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/minyvonneb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"byline-social--link\"><span class=\"icon icon-twitter\"\/><\/a><span class=\"icon icon-email\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"expanded-byline__bio-wrapper\">\n<p class=\"byline-bio expanded-byline__bio\">Minyvonne Burke\u00a0is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Josh Cradduck<!-- --> <!-- -->contributed<!-- -->.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Heavy rain is battering Southern California as a powerful storm moved through the area, causing significant flooding and prompting warnings from officials of possible mudslides. Oxnard residents were told Thursday morning to stay off city streets for the next several hours until floodwaters receded. Video posted on social media showed streets completely underwater. &#8220;Many &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}