Weather

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Chad Adriano fills up sand bags before the weekend storms at the Orange County Fire Authority Station 44 in downtown in Seal Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Wet weather returned to California on Thursday with the first in a new series of rainstorms moving across the northern half of the state while the south awaited a storm that forecasters said could be the strongest in years if not decades. (Nick Agro/The Orange County Register via AP)

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Residents fill up sand bags before the weekend storms at the Orange County Fire Authority Station 44 in downtown in Seal Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Wet weather returned to California on Thursday with the first in a new series of rainstorms moving across the northern half of the state while the south awaited a storm that forecasters said could be the strongest in years if not decades. (Nick Agro/The Orange County Register via AP)

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Chad Adriano fills up sand bags before the weekend storms at the Orange County Fire Authority Station 44 in downtown in Seal Beach, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Wet weather returned to California on Thursday with the first in a new series of rainstorms moving across the northern half of the state while the south awaited a storm that forecasters said could be the strongest in years if not decades. (Nick Agro/The Orange County Register via AP)

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In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, a truck is loaded at the American Rock Salt Co. in Hampton Corners, N.Y. Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

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In this Jan. 27, 2017 photo, Joe Bucci, Jr., environmental manager for American Rock Salt Co., poses for a photograph in front of the Service Shaft hoist at the mine in Hampton Corners, N.Y., which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. And when the snow keeps falling and supplies run low, miners have to step up production to meet demand in real time. “We live and die by the weather,” says Bucci. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

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In this Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a handful of snow-melting road salt mined by the American Rock Salt Co. is photographed at a service station in Williamsville, N.Y. Deep below upstate New York’s farm country, workers in ghostly tunnels are praying for snow. Fiercer winters mean better business, longer hours and fatter paychecks at what’s billed as the nation’s most productive salt mine, which ships trainloads of snow-melting road salt to municipalities across the Northeast. (AP Photo/Jeffrey T. Barnes)

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A mudslide blocks westbound lanes of Interstate 90 in Issaquah, Wash. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2016. Several cars were stuck in the mud. No injuries were reported. After a week of snow and heavy rains, landslides were covering roads around Seattle Thursday while in Spokane County a state of emergency was declared for flooding and washed out roadways. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times via AP)

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Austin Taylor, who was commuting to Kirkland when he hit a mudslide covering westbound Interstate 90, stands by his car in Issaquah, Wash., Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. After a week of snow and heavy rains, landslides were covering roads around Seattle Thursday while in Spokane County a state of emergency was declared for flooding and washed out roadways. (Steve Ringman/The Seattle Times via AP)

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A mudslide blocks westbound lanes of Interstate 90 in Issaquah, Wash. on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. Several cars were stuck in the mud. No injuries were reported.After a week of snow and heavy rains, landslides were covering roads around Seattle Thursday while in Spokane County a state of emergency was declared for flooding and washed out roadways. (Steve Ringman / The Seattle Times via AP)

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John Morin plows his driveway in Greene, Maine, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. A winter storm unleashed more than a foot of wet, heavy snow on parts of Maine and New Hampshire, creating a messy commute, closing schools, knocking out power — and pushing snow tallies to levels unseen in years in northern New England. (Daryn Slover/The Lewiston Sun-Journal via AP)

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Richard Tardif and his dog, Diesel, take a walk down Ball Park Road in Sabattus, Maine, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. A winter storm unleashed more than a foot of wet, heavy snow on parts of Maine and New Hampshire, creating a messy commute, closing schools, knocking out power — and pushing snow tallies to levels unseen in years in northern New England. (Daryn Slover/The Lewiston Sun-Journal via AP)

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A commuter is silhouetted with the thin dusting of morning snow that covered the North Shore of Pittsburgh on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (Darrell Sapp/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

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Past a birch tree bowed over under the weight of wet snow, a car travels along Kingsbury Lane in Kennebunk, Maine, on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2016. An overnight winter storm unleashed more than a foot of wet, heavy snow on parts of Maine and New Hampshire by Thursday, closing schools knocking out power and pushing snow tallies to levels unseen in years. (Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald via AP)

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Japan's Kei Nishikori serves against Diego Schwartzman of Argentina during an ATP Argentina Open tennis match in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Agustin Marcarian)

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People watch the gushing waters of the Feather River from the town's fish hatchery a day after an evacuation was lifted Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Authorities say the immediate danger has passed and allowed people living downstream of the Oroville Dam to go back home Tuesday after ordering an evacuation Sunday. But new storms forecast to hit Northern California this week will test quick repairs to the dam. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Marcie Peterson, center right, watches the gushing waters from the Feather River next to her son Robert Baltierra, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Authorities say the immediate danger has passed and allowed people living downstream of the Oroville Dam to go back home Tuesday after ordering an evacuation Sunday. But, new storms forecast to hit Northern California this week will test quick repairs to the dam. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Leanne Fowler, left, rests on the bed of a pick up truck next to family dog Riley after returning home from evacuation Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Authorities say the immediate danger has passed and allowed people living downstream of the Oroville Dam to go back home Tuesday after ordering an evacuation Sunday. But, new storms forecast to hit Northern California this week will test quick repairs to the dam. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Santino Ramirez, 10, rides a scooter Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Many Oroville residents returned home to pack an emergency bag, fill their cars with family valuables and leave. New storms forecast to hit Northern California this week will test quick repairs to the Oroville Dam. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Chantel Ramirez, left, plays catch with her son Santino, 10, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, in Oroville, Calif. Many Oroville residents returned home to pack an emergency bag, fill their cars with family valuables and leave, again. New storms forecast to hit Northern California this week will test quick repairs to the Oroville Dam. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)