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Californians on the ground used social media to document weather crisis

During a weather crisis, our understanding of what’s happening on the ground is from everyday people posting videos to social media.

Femi Oke, host of Al Jazeera English’s ‘The Stream,” joins us to discuss how Californians documented the extreme flooding and rain and came together as a community this week.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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