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Areas, despite signs warning not to do that. what is your best advice to californians as they deal with this very unusual weather? >> this is unusual anytime of the year but certainly in august. it has been a long time since a tropical storm with actual intensity with wind speeds over 40 miles per hour. made landfall in southern california. 1939 was the last time, so we are seeing a lot of unusual activity with the heavy rain, and the wind flooding and in desert areas, we are seeing about a years worth of rain in one day. so especially during the nighttime, and the early morning hours until we...

here's matt gutman. >> reporter: a battering ram. storms pounded more than half the country, unleashing flash floods and tornadoes. a tornado killed a man in tennessee. tossing his trailer on top of him. this twister touched down in oklahoma. golf-ball-sized hail came with it. other tornadoes slammed kentucky, where just north of louisville a twister flattened these three homes and flung this truck atop the debris. >> i thank the good lord i'm here. where i sleep and everything is -- fell all around me. >> reporter: in ohio the gates mill dam broke triggering a flash flood that swamped the ...