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The precipitation is desperately needed to combat California's severe drought. But it comes with a trade-off in communities that endured wildfires. Heavy rain and snowfall means an increased chance of mudslides, rockslides and flash-flooding.

A category 5 atmospheric river is hitting Northern California, bringing historic rains and causing flooding, power outages and ash and debris flows in wildfire burn scars.

Flooding was reported across the San Francisco Bay Area while the National Weather Service's Sacramento office warned of "potentially historic rain."

The smoke-filled summers are a recent addition to the region, for most of us. But disasters like fires and floods are common through the years of recorded…

In 1906, stage driver Frank Reid was moving in a downpour toward Lakeview, Ore. Just as he headed downhill into a narrow canyon between steep hills on…