Weather & Science
Californians Warned to Stay Off Roads as Major Storm Looms
A tow truck pulls a car out of a flooded intersection in Mill Valley, Calif., on Jan. 4.
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As California braces for another powerful winter storm, state leaders are telling their nearly 40 million residents to stay off the roads.
“If you don’t have to be out on the roadways during the peak of these storms, we ask you to please stay home,” Tony Tavares, director of the California Department of Transportation, said in a video posted on Twitter Wednesday.