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Hundreds of thousands of Californians lost power and tens of thousands have fled their homes. Major highways are closed up and down the state this morning due to flooding.

California is in the middle of its fifth major storm since Christmas and more storms are on the way. Here's California's state climatologist, Michael Anderson.

These are interesting events in that each and individually, not all that awe-inspiring in terms of, oh my gosh, that's a monster storm. Is the fact that you're just having so many of them with little break in between them.

Joining us from Sonoma County, just north of San Francisco is KQED reporter Danielle Ventin. Well, Danielle, it's been a wet night and morning up and down the state. How are these storms affecting folks where you are?

Here in Sonoma County, we've had people die from falling trees, people rescued from getting their vehicles stuck in water, hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to roads.

And we've had a lot of people who live along the Russian river, which for decades has been a hotspot for flooding damage in the Western US, be displaced.

I visited with some of these people to hear what they've been going through. I met Lewis Britton, who lives in an RV in a town called Gernville on the banks of the Russian River.

In the area that I live floods at 30 feet. So yeah, so I was like, well, I guess it's time to go.

He's part of a group of evacuees who live in RVs or trailers who have come to a private park. It's really a kids playground.

There's about 50 people, including about 20 children. And they've been living here for the last few days because where they normally park their homes, it's just too dangerous.

They're getting support from the county, such as food and water, and they've moved in portapoddies.

Yeah, Danielle, we know this area of northern California is also where burn scar, lots of fires have happened.

The range are affecting folks throughout the state now. What are you hearing from other parts of California?

Well, there's a 34 mile levy along the Cassamnus River near Sacramento that saw several breaches during the near's eaves storm.

There's a lot of nervousness that it could breach again in flood nearby land and homes elsewhere. We're seeing serious floods with water in and dating homes in the Santa Cruz area, for example, a much beloved pier and were for destroyed.

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