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16 Photos Show Treacherous Flooding, Damage Of California Storms

From flash flooding to mudslides and rockslides, California residents just can't catch a break. Check out new weather photos below.

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People carrying their belongs arrive at an evacuation center in Santa Barbara on Monday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
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Flooding from huge amounts of rain are seen in a neighborhood off of Holohan Road near Watsonville, California on Monday. (Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

LOS ANGELES — California continues to face a relentless stream of storms, as residents are being forced to evacuate areas with a track record of deadly flooding and mudslides. Areas affected by wildfires last year are much more susceptible to mudslides than other parts of the state. Forecasters warned that 60-mph wind gusts could reach southwestern California at the storm's peak, with other areas receiving rainfall of a half-inch per hour.

State officials confirmed the new death toll rise from 12 to 14 on Monday, after falling trees took the lives of two people. Major roadways will remain closed, including northbound lanes of U.S. 101, sections of U.S. 6 and State Route 168 as conditions are expected to worsen with the chance of rockslides.

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Below, find updated photos below of the storms hitting California:

A man wades through a flooded street in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, California on Monday. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
A cleaning crew walks through floodwaters in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, California on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)

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Naia Skogerson evacuates from her house as floodwaters rise in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, California on Monday. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
A boarded up house on Beach Drive in Aptos, California on Monday. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
A boarded up house during storms on Beach Drive in Aptos, California on Monday. (AP Photo/Nic Coury)
The closed Summit Road is blocked as emergency personnel are deployed in the area in Santa Clara County, California on Monday. Californians grappled with flooding and mudslides Monday as the latest in a series of powerful storms walloped the state, shuttering schools, toppling trees and leaving tens of thousands without power. (AP Photo/Haven Daley)
Linda Orengo, 69, surveys flood damage to her home in the Santa Cruz County town of Felton, California where the San Lorenzo River, swelled by torrential rains, reached major flood stage before dawn on Monday. (John Woolfolk/Bay Area News Group via AP)
Home owner Tom Fredericks, of Felton, left, is helped by Maisie Russo, of Felton, after heavy rains swelled the San Lorenzo River, flooding homes in Felton, California on Monda. The water level left a distinct mark on the side of Frederick's home, which he measured at 4 feet. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group via AP)
Uvas Creek floods a section of Miller Avenue in Gilroy, California as the latest series of atmospheric rivers hit the Bay Area on Monday. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group via AP)
A Caltrans worker directs traffic at a freeway entrance as the U.S. Freeway 101 is closed near Montecito, California on Monday. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Flooding from huge amounts of rain are seen in a neighborhood off of Holohan Road near Watsonville, Calif. on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023.(Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Flooding from huge amounts of rain are seen in a neighborhood off of Holohan Road near Watsonville, California on Monday.(Brontë Wittpenn/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Caltrans crews work to clear a mudslide on Highway 17 that resulted from heavy rain from an atmospheric river storm in the Santa Cruz Mountains 1/4-mile south of Glenwood Drive in Scott's Valley, California on Monday. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Caltrans crews work to clear a mudslide on Highway 17 that resulted from heavy rain from an atmospheric river storm in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of Glenwood Drive in Scott's Valley, California on Monday. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
Caltrans crews work to clear a mudslide on Highway 17 that resulted from heavy rain from an atmospheric river storm in the Santa Cruz Mountains, south of Glenwood Drive in Scott's Valley, California on Monda. (Carlos Avila Gonzalez/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)
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