(Bloomberg) — As California braces for another powerful winter storm, state leaders are telling their nearly 40 million residents to stay off the roads.
(Bloomberg) — As California braces for another powerful winter storm, state leaders are telling their nearly 40 million residents to stay off the roads.
“If you don’t have to be out on the roadways during the peak of these storms, we ask you to please stay home,” Tony Tavares, director of the California Department of Transportation, said in a video posted on Twitter Wednesday.
Less than a week after a parade of storms triggered deadly floods in the Golden State, California is facing damaging winds and heavy rain beginning Wednesday evening, according to the National Weather Service. An offshore bomb cyclone promises to bring more flooding to the state — and increases the risk of mudslides and power outages.
Even before the state’s transportation department, or Caltrans, made its plea, some residents rushed to amass food and supplies.
A line snaked down two aisles at a Trader Joe’s grocery store serving San Francisco’s Nob Hill district on Tuesday evening. At about 7 p.m. local time, many shelves lay bare, with the store sold out of eggs, cottage cheese, ground meat and broccoli.
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–With assistance from Sarah McBride.
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