For this, I would have moved to Seattle

I've been inside working all morning. And outside it's been raining. Rain, rain, rain. As it was yesterday, and as it will be tomorrow. To understand why this is significant, you must know that I live in Los Angeles:

The storm, which began battering California from San Francisco to Los Angeles on Thursday, was "hellbent" to continue through Monday with up to 2 feet of rain in some of the higher mountain elevations in and around southern California and up to 12 inches of rain in lowland areas, Keeton forecast.

Scattered showers and wind gusts were expected to continue through Wednesday, he said.

In Los Angeles, one man was killed and another injured when the hillside tent in which they were sleeping was buried by a mudslide, officials said.

In Malibu, another man was killed after a vehicle slid off a highway, down a 20-foot cliff, and ended up halfway submerged in the Pacific Ocean, said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Randall Dickey. Four other people sustained minor injuries in the accident.

In a Los Angeles County canyon, rescue workers searched all the way to the ocean but were unable to find a man who jumped into a rain-swollen creek.

A man and his two children were pulled alive from the rubble of a hillside Los Angeles home which collapsed and was totally destroyed, fire officials said. They were taken to an area hospital with minor injuries.

Throughout California there were hundreds of reports of evacuations and power outages due to flooding and heavy rains.

As many as 12,000 people in Los Angeles were without electricity after felled trees disrupted power lines, officials from the Los Angeles Department of Power and Water said.

"The soil is getting very saturated which is dislodging the root systems for trees and brush so they become unstable," said spokeswoman Kim Hughes.

Which is to say, I'm glad I finished work while I have power. Meanwhile, major parts of Europe seem to be under water:

In northwestern England, meanwhile, the centre of the city of Carlisle was largely underwater, with locals sheltering on upper floors, watching cars float past in the street below.

Thousands of people were forced to abandon their homes in the city on Saturday evening, being rescued either by boat or by helicopter from the roof, local police said.

Four people were killed in Denmark -- two motorists who died when trees crashed onto their cars, and two others who were killed when a roof blew off a building, police said.

In southern Sweden, two motorists were also killed when trees fell on their cars, and a third died when a car hit him as he tried to remove a fallen tree from a road, media reported.

Copenhagen's Kastrup airport closed down for several hours, as did the Malmoe Sturup airport in southern Sweden, as hurricane force winds of up to 151 kilometers (94 miles) an hour lashed the region and authorities urged people to stay indoors if possible.

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Around the British Isles, trucks toppled over, river banks burst, people were evacuated from flooded houses and uprooted trees blocked dozens of roads.

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In contrast, Prague was bathed on Saturday in an unseasonal temperature of 13.8 degrees Celsius (57 Fahrenheit) the warmest January weather ever recorded in 230 years of official records.

Global climate change? What global climate change? I want my SUV.