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A winter storm has been going on for 3 weeks in California, where many Koreans live and is famous for its nice weather.
More than 10 people died and a state of emergency was declared as heavy rain poured along with strong winds.
Correspondent Kim Yun-soo from the United States delivered this news.
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A driver is rescued from a vehicle that was stranded in the rapids hitting the road.
Roads have disappeared into the water, and villages have been completely submerged.
Luxury homes by the sea became a mess due to the waves that broke even the windows.
[April Hugh/Victims: It was shocking and unbelievable.
The water started to flow into the house and immediately overflowed like a river.] A
hurricane-level gust of wind exceeding 120 km at the moment also blew everywhere.
Flood warnings have been issued for 34 million people and more than 90% of Californians as a winter storm with heavy rain and strong winds of up to 30 mm per hour continued for the third week.
16 people have died so far, including a 5-year-old child who went missing after being swept away by the swollen river.
Meteorological experts analyzed this heavy rain as a phenomenon called the so-called 'atmospheric river'.
The 'Atmospheric River' is a phenomenon in which a large amount of water vapor evaporated from the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii moves like a long and narrow river.
[Eleni Kunalakis/Lieutenant Governor of California, US: Five 'atmospheric rivers' have occurred in the past two weeks.
Everything was flooded, and the limit was reached, and more rain was predicted.]
As various extreme weather events such as super-strong hurricanes and droughts followed, nearly 500 people died in the United States last year alone and damages of more than 200 trillion won were calculated. That's it.
(Video coverage: Park Eun-ha, video editing: Oh No-young)