Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour.

Happy to have you here.

Lots of news of all kinds going on right now.

In California, the monsoon style rains there

have literally 10% of the entire US population

living under a flood watch right now.

The population of California is so big

that when 90% of Californians are under a flood watch

as they are tonight, that's 10% of the whole US population.

In this succession of extremely wet storms,

the North Central Coast of California

has been particularly hard hit already.

But now with additional storms still coming,

there are all kinds of Northern California rivers

that don't usually flood that are looking now

like they are going to flood.

These are places where there just aren't a lot of flood

mitigation systems because they are rivers

that don't usually flood.

There's not a lot of local experience

with inland flooding, with people surviving it

and again mitigating it.

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