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San Francisco is bracing for another catastrophic storm that will be the 'most impactful' yet after it was deluged with massive flooding and mudslides last week.
As the Pineapple Express - a strong atmospheric storm building in the Pacific Northwest - prepares to slam into California, the state is still reeling from the storm that hit on New Year's Eve.
'This will likely be one of the most impactful systems on a widespread scale that this meteorologist has seen in a long while,' the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office said. 'This is truly a brutal system that we are looking at and needs to be taken seriously.
'The impacts will include widespread flooding, roads washing out, hillside collapsing, trees down (potentially full groves), widespread power outages, immediate disruption to commerce, and the worst of all, likely loss of human life.'
An atmospheric storm, known as a Pineapple Express, is 500 miles off the coast of California. It is expected to hit the Pacific Northwest on Wednesday
First responders respond to a call in Tustin of a group of adults got stranded in a submerged vehicle over the weekend. Two people have already died in the storm that took place over New Year's Eve and more are expected to happen as the new storm rolls in
Fifteen million people are preparing to be effective by the upcoming storm that is expected to hit Wednesday afternoon, all the way from California to Wisconsin.
Every area in the Bay Area is currently under a flood warning until 4pm on Thursday as the massive storm approaches the West Coast.
However, most of the bomb cyclone will happen in the middle of the ocean.
'In this case, this one is going to bomb out over the open ocean,' Daniel Swain, a UCLA climate scientist, told the San Francisco Chronicle.
Despite the storm largely taking place 500 miles off the coast, the effects on San Francisco could be devastating after it already suffered devastating flooding over the weekend, nearly 20,000 Californians are still without power and at least two died.
The San Francisco Fire Department said it received 'double' the amount of calls it normally receives over the holiday weekend as a storm drenched the drought-ridden state.
'The San Francisco Fire Department received almost 800 calls for service in a 24-hour period during this last storm - that's about twice of what we normally receive,' Chief Jeanine Nicholson said at a
San Francisco has already experience massive flooding after receiving nearly 5.5 inches of rain over New Year's Eve
San Francisco is preparing for two to three more inches of rain and could receive wind gusts up to 50mph on top of the flooding (pictured) it already experienced
Business owners work to waterproof a restaurant ahead of the storm in San Francisco
'It's what we do, but we could really use the public's help,' she said. 'Please stay home, and please have your flashlights [ready] and if you have generators, have fuel in them to be able to take care of yourselves and your family and not have to go out in this and then have to call 911.'
She also advised the public to only
