Nov. 20 (UPI) — At least one person is dead and hundreds of thousands of were without power early Wednesday as a powerful bomb cyclone hit the Pacific Northwest and northern California.
The National Weather Service had warned of a once-in-a-decade bomb cyclone hitting Washington, Oregon and northern California starting Tuesday afternoon and continuing through Wednesday morning.
On X, it warned that prolonged heavy rains from an atmospheric river would persist over far northern California into southwest Orgeong into Friday. Damaging winds in excess of 60 mph were to cause power outages and down trees in coastal areas.
Late Tuesday, South County Fire, located in Snohomish County just north of Seattle, said on Facebook that a woman in her 50s had died when a tree, felled by strong winds, toppled onto a homeless encampment…