Bomb Cyclone Brings Flooding, Landslides to California (PHOTOS) | The Weather Channel
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Residents in one Santa Rosa neighborhood were told to evacuate as floodwaters rose.

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A worker attempts to clear a drain in a flooded street on Oct. 24, 2021, in San Rafael, Calif. A category 5 atmospheric river is bringing heavy precipitation, high winds and power outages to the San Francisco Bay Area. The storm is expected to bring anywhere between 2 to 5 inches of rain to many parts of the area. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

A bomb cyclone and a powerful atmospheric river dumped flooding rain on California and the Pacific Northwest Sunday. The storm flooded roads, caused landslides and knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people.

Residents in one Santa Rosa neighborhood were told to evacuate as floodwaters rose.

Photos show rubble and debris covering Highway 70 in California's Plumas County after the rain sent a landslide cascading into the road. It's only one of several landslides reported in the region.

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(MORE: Landslides, Flooding Clobber California)

The risk for landslides and debris flows is particularly high in areas with wildfire burn scars. Watches and warnings for flooding and debris flow were issued ahead of the storm in and around the Dixie and Alisal burn scar areas.

More than 179,000 customers throughout California, Washington and Oregon are still without power on Monday, according to poweroutage.us, but outages reached nearly 400,000 at the height of the storm.

Click through the slideshow above to see images from the storm.

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