More than half a million households in the state were without electricity on Monday morning local time.
Stateside Flooding and very strong winds brought by torrential rain threatened millions of people in southern California on Monday. A state governor Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in eight southern counties of the state.
According to the US National Weather Service (NWS), downtown Los Angeles, for example, saw so much rain that it advised people to avoid all travel as much as possible because the conditions were extremely dangerous.
More than half a million households in the state were without power Monday morning local time, said PowerOutage, a website that tracks power outages.
Officials say at least one person died in the storm after being trapped under a falling tree in Yuba, near Sacramento.
Although rains are common during winter in California, climate change has made them even more intense, according to researchers, while also increasing other extreme weather phenomena.
In Los Angeles, the roads were flooded with water on Monday.
Correction February 5, 8:30 p.m.: The title of the article previously incorrectly referred to Texas. In fact, the story is about California.
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