The Pacific Northwest was being slammed by a powerful, enduring storm system through Wednesday night that's brought high winds, flooding and left thousands without power.
The big picture: As a bomb cyclone that killed at least two people in Washington eased somewhat Wednesday evening, a strong atmospheric river was ramping up and taking aim at southwestern Oregon and Northern California — where the Weather Prediction Center warned of excessive rainfall risks through Friday.
Inversion, a developer of space-based cargo delivery, tells Axios that it has raised $44 million in Series A funding co-led by Spark Capital and Adjacent.
Why it matters: This could enable near-instant delivery of medicines and other emergency supplies to anywhere on Earth within an hour. Same goes for military cargo like drones.
