Using a plastic broom, Camilla Shaffer scrapes at the thick layer of mud caking her yard — it’s the third time in two weeks that her house has been flooded thanks to the string of storms that have hit California in rapid succession.
“I’m so angry, it just makes me want to cry,” said Shaffer, a 59-year-old Briton wearing boots covered in muck.
It was only a few days ago that she cleaned up her porch from the last storm, and now she has to start all over again. Upstairs her belongings are safe but the furniture of her art studio on the ground floor is ruined.
In Felton, a town of 4,500 people tucked away in mountains and sequoia trees on the coast south of San Francisco, folks thought they knew the San Lorenzo River. It had burst its banks a few times in the past decade.
But this time was different, with locals saying they had never seen the waterway flood so wildly or so often
