(1st UPDATE) Hilary is the first tropical storm ever recorded to hit San Diego county and the first to pelt Los Angeles county since 1939
LOS ANGELES, California – Parts of Southern California and the US Southwest on Monday, August 31, faced the threat of flash flooding along with landslides and mudslides after storm Hilary unleashed record-breaking downpours overnight.
“Right now we have flooding on all of our roads. There’s no way in or out of Palm Springs and that’s the case for the majority of the Coachella valley. We’re all stuck,” she said during an interview on the network. As the rain was expected to slowly dissipate throughout the morning in Southern California, officials warned residents not to let their guard down as dangerous flooding could wash out roadways and inundating neighborhoods.
Before striking the US Southwest, the storm passed northward through Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. It killed at least one person in Mexico, triggering flash flooding and sweeping away roads.
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US southwest on high alert as Hurricane Hilary climbs Mexico coastCABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico: States across the typically arid US southwest were racing Saturday to prepare for life-threatening flooding forecast as Hurricane Hilary approaches from Mexico, where damage and one death were reported.A Saturday night bulletin from the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hilary's winds had significantly weakened but were still sustained at a hazardous 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour) with higher gusts.On the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, that would put the storm at a Category 1, down from its Category 4 peak.The storm's center 'will move close to the west-central coast of the Baja California Peninsula' Saturday night and Sunday Morning, the NHC said, and 'then move across southern California Sunday afternoon.''Heavy rains' were affecting portions of Baja California and the southwestern United States, with 'catastrophic and life-threatening flooding likely.'The storm is expected to weaken into a tropical storm before reaching southern California and southern Nevada, with heavy rainfall and flooding still possible. Mexico's Civil Protection agency said in a statement Saturday that river and stream levels had risen significantly in Loreto and Mulege on Baja California's east coast, which was also hit by landslides and road closures.It added that one person had died after a vehicle was swept away by a stream in Mulege.Residents and workers in the Mexican tourist resort of Cabo San Lucas have put up protective boarding and laid thousands of sandbags as large waves crash ashore.Military personnel were seen patrolling the beach in the city, a popular destination for both Mexican and foreign tourists at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula.'We took all the precautionary measures last night,' Omar Olvera told AFP on Saturday at the Cabo San Lucas beachfront restaurant where he works. With sandbags piled protectively around the restaurant, he said, 'We're just looking out for the workers and waiting for the weather to com
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