NORTHEAST ALSO HIT In the Northeast and New England, a Nor'easter storm had already dumped nearly 2 feet of snow in the Berkshire mountains of western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut, and 8 inches had fallen in Albany, New York, with more still to come late on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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By Steve Gorman and Brendan O'Brien LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Emergency officials in several California counties spent Friday patrolling levies and swollen rivers as an "atmospheric river" storm drenched the already-sodden state with torrential rains, causing floods that washed out roads and prompted e.
Santa Cruz County officials say they are monitoring the coming rain closely, and have their emergency operations on standby in case they need to relaunch.
More stormy weather could make landfall ahead of this weekend, with another atmospheric river hitting the Bay Area and forecast to bring up to 5 inches of rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and up to 3 inches at lower elevations.