Ashley Harper had hoped to ring in the new year surrounded by friends and family at her home in the northern California town of Soquel, along the United States west coast.But as successive storms blanketed the state in heavy rainfall, Harper started to worry. The normally peaceful creek next to her house had started to swell.“I woke up one day and thought ‘Wow, that creek is very high and rising very quick,’” she told Al Jazeera during a recent phone call.
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