Key roadways remained closed and officials estimated thousand of homes were seriously damaged in California as weeks of wild weather that flooded roadways, collapsed hillsides and toppled countless trees finally became calm Tuesday.
Tallying the damage will take time, but the number of houses and other structures that will be red-tagged as uninhabitable could be in the “low thousands,” said Brian Ferguson, spokesperson for the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
The damage is spread across 41 of California’s 58 counties, Ferguson said.
Meteorologist Kari Hall has the timeline of the incoming rain and cold temperatures in the Microclimate Forecast.
In unincorporated Santa Barbara County, after more
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