Cars were trapped and parts of the road washed away in Palm Springs as Hilary swept through, triggering mass flooding and mudslides.
The storm, which made landfall on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Sunday, was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone but resulted in mass power outages and flooding across Southern California. Over 45,500 customers were without power across the state as of 1 p.m. Eastern, per Poweroutage.us. Over 10,000 of those outages are in Los Angeles County.
“The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary dropped more than half an average year’s worth of rain on some areas, including Palm Springs, which saw nearly 3.18 inches of rain by Sunday evening,” Breitbart News reported. Indeed, some of the most shocking post-storm images are coming from Palm County, which experienced severe flooding.
“That’s our biggest concern, is once this rain starts to come down off the mountain will we continuously have some flooding on our streets,” Palm Springs Mayor Grace Garnerthat Palm Springs, which averages 4.61 inches of rain per year, reached 2.27 inches of rain over a six-hour period. Thethat Palm Springs is actually “cut off,” with people trapped in their homes and unable to call 911.
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