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Rose Parade avoids California rain as it welcomes New Year
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Rose Parade avoids California rain as it welcomes New Year

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Flower-covered floats, marching bands and equestrian units celebrated the New Year as the 134th Rose Parade slipped through a gap in California's siege of drenching storms. Pasadena's annual floral spectacle offered the optimistic theme of "Turning the Corner" for 2023 and former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords of Arizona, who survived being shot in 2011, served as grand marshal on Monday. The parade is held on Jan. 2 when New Year's Day falls on a Sunday. Rain has rarely fallen on the parade, but this year it came close. Downpours pounded Southern California over the weekend and rain was expected to return by Monday evening.

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Flooded California hit by second storm

  • The Associated Press
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GUERNEVILLE, Calif. — The second major storm in two days washed across Northern California on Sunday, prolonging the threat of flooding as res…