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A massive Pacific storm unleashed high winds, torrential rains and heavy snow across California for a second day on Thursday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes and threatening much of the state with flash flooding and mudslides.

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The deadly storm was powered by two overlapping phenomena – an immense airborne stream of dense moisture flowing off the ocean called an atmospheric river, and a sprawling, hurricane-force low-pressure system known as a bomb cyclone.

The National Weather Service predicted widespread rainfall of 2.5 cm per hour, with snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Southern California’s coastal ranges falling at the rate of 7.6 cm an hour, making road travel treacherous. Four other deaths have been attributed to the New Year’s weekend storm that swept northern California – three flood victims found in or near their cars and an elderly man found dead under a fallen tree.

Big River Beach, a picturesque and popular destination for tourists and locals alike about 35 miles farther north in the village of Mendocino, was almost unrecognizable with uprooted trees and debris scattered across mounds of sand awash in pools of standing water.

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