In Photos: Flooding in California

This aerial view shows a damaged pier is split in Capitola, California, Jan. 9, 2023. A massive storm called a "bomb cyclone" by meteorologists has arrived and is expected to cause widespread flooding throughout the state. 

A flooded warning sign and a road closed to thru traffic sign are seen in Montecito, California, Jan. 9, 2023.

A Sacramento Municipal Utility District crew is repairing downed power lines following storms in Sacramento, California, Jan. 9, 2023.

This aerial view shows a flooded home partially underwater in Gilroy, Jan. 9, 2023.

A garage is flooded by the overflowing Carmel River on Paso Hondo Road in Carmel Valley, Jan. 9, 2023. The National Weather Service warned of a “relentless parade of atmospheric rivers” — long plumes of moisture stretching out into the Pacific that can drop staggering amounts of rain and snow.

People carrying their belongs arrive at an evacuation center in Santa Barbara, Jan. 9, 2023.

Cars are seen submerged in flood waters in Morro Bay, California, Jan. 9, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media.

Camilla Shaffer, a resident of Felton, scrapes mud out of her home after major flooding overnight caused by an atmospheric river storm system in Felton, California, Jan. 9, 2023.

Residents look at abandoned cars on a flooded street in east Santa Barbara, Jan. 9, 2023.

The owners of Venus Pie Trap place sandbags in front of their restaurant in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, Jan. 9, 2023.

A man wades through a flooded street in the Rio Del Mar neighborhood of Aptos, Jan. 9, 2023.

Max Barnett is pulled on a surfboard by driver Riley Johnson down a flooded street after the threat of mudslides prompted evacuation orders in east Santa Barbara, January 9, 2023.