LOS ANGELES (AP) — More rain fell Monday on parts of Southern California after causing mudflows over the weekend, helping firefighters but boosting the risk of toxic ash runoff in areas scorched by Los Angeles-area wildfires.

Realtors said California fire refugees moving to Florida small compared to Covid-motivated migration, but follows a trend that began during COVID.

The storm brought an inch of rain to parts of Southern California and several inches of snow over the region's mountains.

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A group of 10 South Floridians volunteering for the Red Cross deployed to Los Angeles, California to help with the wildfires. Watch this to hear what they saw on the ground.

Insurers are increasingly retreating from high-risk areas, attributing their actions to climate change, even though they have long possessed the tools and expertise to forecast and manage these risks.

The fire wiped out almost everything,” Bernard said. “It's a war zone. We're all just dealing with it day by day, but it's so much uncertainty.”

As winds across the Southern California area are calmer than their peak and firefighters are making progress, the threat to the fire-weary region remains with Santa Ana winds expected to continue in the coming days.

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

The Old Farmer's Almanac, which has been in business since 1792, recently released its spring weather forecast. The outlook? "Warmer-than-normal temperatures for most of the country, with a few exceptions: southern and central California, Desert Southwest, southern Florida, and western Ohio Valley, where it will be near to below normal."

Head coach Mike Norvell is trying to make that a reality. On Wednesday, Norvell was all over the place, including the state of Georgia to check in with five-star linebacker Xavier Griffin. After committing to USC in July, Griffin is still entertaining potential suitors ahead of his senior season.

USC Trojans coach Lincoln Riley signed a 10-year, $110 million contract with USC prior to the 2022 season. Riley was previously the coach for the Oklahoma Soone