California battered
Nearly half a million people were without electricity yesterday after a ferocious storm battered the Pacific coast of the United States with high tides, torrential rains, and howling mountain blizzards. Power company officials said more than 400,000 northern California residents were without electricity after the storm’s high winds snapped power lines and toppled utility poles. In parts of California, roads were closed by falling trees and power poles, fierce winds shattered windows and whipped flying debris into vehicles, and flooding caused sewage systems to back up into bathtubs. There was one stormrelated death. — San Francisco.
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Press, 27 December 1979, Page 12
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