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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Up to 5 inches of desperately needed rain fell in some areas of Southern California from a major winter storm, but with few exceptions damage across the densely populated region was minor.
Streets flooded with bursts of up to 2 inches per hour and the Friday morning commute was a mess of crashes and slow going. Up to 50,000 people lost power across Southern California at one point.
In the Ventura County city of Camarillo, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, rain was falling at about an inch an hour over hillsides ravaged by a 2013 wildfire.
Near downtown Los Angeles, the fire department rescued two people from the storm-swollen Los Angeles River. Orange County fire officials and Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputies each pulled a body from smaller waterways, though in both cases the cause of death wasn't clear.
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