Soaked and Battered by Repeating Rainstorms, California Girds for More – the New York Times

Powerful waves continue to batter the Capitola Wharf Thursday morning after the storm destroyed a section of the structure © 2023 Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel

Extreme weather has plagued many parts of the country this fall and winter. But few places have been as ravaged by the changing climate these last weeks as California.

An unrelenting series of pounding storms over at least 11 days has left no part of California untouched — flooding towns from north to south, loading inland mountains with snow and transforming the often dry Los Angeles River into a raging channel…