Residents on both sides of the country are experiencing the full impact of Mother Nature as high wind warnings, flood watches and even a blizzard warning threaten the West Coast, while a Nor'easter dumps more than a foot of snow in some parts of the East Coast.

West Coast rains and wind

California, which has been suffering from an extensive drought, faces a flash flooding threat as three to five inches of rain is forecast from western Washington to northern California from what the National Weather Service describes as a “plume of moisture.”

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