California, hit by an “incessant parade of cyclones” according to the meteorological services, was preparing to experience new deluges on Thursday, after floods and landslides which have already killed at least 18 people and generated vast power cuts. fluent. In places, levels of precipitation not reached for 150 years have been recorded. A five-year-old child is missing after being swept away by the waves, motorists were trapped in their cars and residents were crushed by falling trees. The National Weather Service (NHS) has warned: other states, on the Pacific coast of the northwest of the United States, should be affected, early Saturday.