Dec. 25 (UPI) — Two have died as stormy weather enveloped Southern California on Wednesday and is expected to continue through Friday, causing a state of emergency and local evacuations.
Torrential rains flooded highways and created debris fields and lots of mud in Southern California spurred Gov. Gavin Newsom to declare a state of emergency.
The state of emergency applies to Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego and Shasta counties, NBC News reported.
An elderly San Diego man named Roberto Ruiz died on Wednesday after a tree branch fell on him and caused him to suffer a cardiac arrest…