The man jumped into a city canal to catch his dog, which had fallen into the water. Since Sunday, California has been facing heavy rainfall that has caused dangerous flooding and landslides, killing at least three people.
California is plagued, like last year at the same time, by the phenomenon of “Pineapple Express”, a vast corridor of rain which transports water vapor from the tropics from Hawaii. Scientists have been warning for years that global warming is increasing the frequency of these types of extreme events.