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Extreme rain is boosting California's snowpack. But the same storms are bringing flooding to other parts of the state.

On Bradley Ranch Road, there are tire tracks in the mud signaling the number of trucks that went in and out Friday hauling rip-rap. They move down a dirt road paved with some gravel to make it stable for the size and weight of the equipment required to haul the materials to armor the inside of the levee. This is the process that's played out for nearly a week along the Cosumnes River as Reclamation District 800 works to fix breaches, breaks, soft spots and boils to maintain the levee.

Storms have already tested a region at high risk of flooding. One report says the Central Valley needs $30 billion in improvements over 30 years.

With extreme weather incidents increasing due to climate change, California is now grappling with an atmospheric river that's bringing "bomb cyclone"-level rainfall to our parched landscape — thanks to drought conditions that are several years in the making. And that's a recipe for dangerous flooding.

The massive, bomb-cyclone-fueled storm set to unleash on California today — dumping more rain and snow across much of the already-soaked state while whipping it