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Violent winds have already downed trees and power lines, with roads flooded in low-lying areas as the storm approaches landfall.

Flash and riverine flooding is the biggest concern in low-lying areas.

Every year, Indigenous people set small low-intensity fires to manage the landscape and clean out low-lying brush — a process that magnified the yield of their plants for medicine and craft-making.

His community, living on the tiny low-lying island of Gardi Sugdub, is the first in Panama to be relocated because of climate change.

“Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers ... and other low-lying and flood-prone locations,” the Monterey office said.