The December 2014 North American Storm Complex was a powerful winter storm, referred to by some as California’s “Storm of the Decade.” Fueled by an atmospheric river originating over the tropical waters of the Pacific Ocean, the storm dropped 8 inches of rainfall in 24 hours, sported wind gusts of 139 miles per hour, and left 150,000 households without power across the San Francisco Bay Area.
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