A viral video posted by Ellen Degeneres Drawing attention to the extraordinary flooding in California in the midst of a hurricane-related emergency.
former talk show host posted a clip Himself standing on the edge of a raging stream at his estate in Montecito, where other celebrities like Oprah and Prince Harry also live.
“It’s probably nine feet up, and it could go up two feet,” DeGeneres said in the clip, noting that this stream on her property usually “never flows.”
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on Monday, 90 percent of the state of California was under flood watch And thousands have already been forced to evacuate their homes, CNN reported. The atmospheric river-fuelled storm is being called the most impactful storm in nearly 20 years, with many areas dropping a month’s worth of rain in a single day. National Weather Service in Los Angeles,
Montecito, where DeGeneres lives, was also placed under evacuation orders on Monday, the five-year anniversary of a similarly deadly storm that killed 23 people in the seaside town in 2018.
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“It’s the five-year anniversary of the fires and landslides that killed so many people and people lost their homes, their lives,” DeGeneres said. “It is madness. On the five-year anniversary, we are having unprecedented rains.
He said, “We need to be nice to Mother Nature because Mother Nature is not happy with us.” “Let us all do our part. Stay safe everyone.
The official death toll from the storm rose to 14 on Monday, and a five-year-old boy who was swept away by his mother’s car in flash floods remains missing. He has not been declared dead as per San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s OfficeBut a nearly seven-hour search for him turned up only one shoe before the water level became too dangerous for divers.
Flooding from heavy rain is seen in the Holohan Road neighborhood near Watsonville, Calif., Monday, Jan. 9, 2023.
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california is over state of emergency Since Sunday when President Joe Biden authorized the Federal Emergency Management Agency to step in and help with disaster relief efforts.
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