Biden to tour California storm damage, see recovery efforts

FILE - President Joe Biden is visiting California on Thursday to view harm from flooding.(Supply: CNN/Pool/file)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is about to tour harm and be briefed on restoration efforts after devastating storms hit California in latest weeks, killing a minimum of 20 individuals and inflicting destruction throughout 41 of the state’s 58 counties.

The president, accompanied by FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, Gov. Gavin Newsom and different state and native officers, will go to Thursday the storm-damaged Capitola Pier in Santa Cruz County, the place he'll meet with enterprise homeowners and affected residents.

Biden can even meet with first responders and ship remarks on supporting the state’s restoration at close by Seacliff State Park.

President Joe Biden will journey to California's central coast this week to go to areas impacted by lethal storms.

“Over 500 FEMA and different federal personnel have already deployed to California to assist response and restoration operations and are working aspect by aspect with the state to make sure all wants are certainly met on the bottom,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated Wednesday.

Biden has already authorised a serious catastrophe declaration for the state, releasing up further federal assets for restoration efforts. Hours forward of the go to, he raised the extent of federal help obtainable even larger.

From Dec. 26 to Jan. 17, your complete state of California averaged 11.47 inches of rain and snow, based on the Nationwide Climate Service’s Climate Prediction Middle, with some stories of as much as 15 toes of snow falling over the three-week interval within the highest elevations of the Sierra Nevada.

California will get a lot of its rain and snow within the winter from a climate phenomenon often known as “atmospheric rivers” — lengthy, slender bands of water vapor that type over the ocean and movement by way of the sky.

California has been hit by 9 atmospheric rivers since late December. The storms have relented in latest days, though forecasters have been calling for mild rain towards the top of this week adopted by a dry interval.

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Related Press writers Seth Borenstein in Washington and Adam Beam in Sacramento, California, contributed to this report.