Saturday, March 11

California is just getting severely pounded, with the Silicon Valley Bank failure to their heavy rain. A levee in the town of Santa Cruz collapsed today, with emergency evacuations quickly taking place and flash floods inundating the area within minutes. This comes after back-to-back snowstorms pummeled the state a few weeks ago, and many Californians were buried in up to 10 feet of snow.

On another note, Cyclone Freddy is back, and it is dangerous. Freddy started out as a tropical storm near Indonesia on February 6, and it moved west, strengthening into a Category 5, and slammed into Réunion, Mauritius, and Madagascar as a Category 2-3. After that, it was expected to hit Mozambique, but it seemed to have fizzled out over the Mozambique Channel. Now, over a month after it originally formed, it has re-strengthened, and become the longest-lasting hurricane/cyclone ever recorded. It is expected to hit Mozambique (again) soon, so if you are in its path, brace for some high winds and flooding!