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  The way headlines are written these days, I thought the cyclone was making some criticism about California and killed the child in order to make its rhetorical point.
context: The drought is finally using its vacation days >
  
  Any chance any of this will make it over the Rockies and hit the Midwest? >
  
  Never. Those mountains cock block you. >
  
  It’s an active pattern right now, and looks like it’ll stay that way for at least another week. Perhaps not as strong as this most recent storm, but Californians shouldn’t let their guard down. >
  
  meh this happened 4 years ago in January and it was way worse then >
  
  East Bay here. We had it easy compared to the north bay. I've definitely seen storms with worse flooding but I guess it is too early to judge the impact. I feel horrible for the family in Occidental who lost their child. >
  
  Capitola beach is pretty much gone. And Aptos got jacked up too. In the South bay. I love those beach towns. Pretty wild surge. West county Sonoma can get so much rain. >
  
  San Jose resident here, the winds were very strong at times, but I don’t think the storm ever materialized quite the way some had feared.  Roads are wet and tree branches are scattered around, but life is moving on even with continued rain. >
  
  San Jose is rain shadowed, so it was never going to get the full brunt. >
  
  Perhaps, but even the mountains just to my west didn’t get nearly as much rain as the prior weekend per multiple weather apps I was tracking. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ no matter, let’s not sensationalize this and just take the win that things weren’t as bad as they could have been. >
  
  At least the reservoirs were low to catch all that water >
  
  Mother Nature asked Cali if it was thirsty, then threw a pitch of water in their faces. Brilliant >
  
  I will break my own rule and not make fun of the title with a dragula comment because the slamming was not done to a person. Thoughts?