Locals in the desert city of Palm Springs are battling raging floodwaters as the worst of the storm passes overhead.
Tropical Storm Hilary has cut a narrow channel of severe damage through central California, bombarding the south-west coast of the United States with heavy rain and sending dangerous floodwaters into the state’s mountains and deserts.
In an extraordinary twist to an equally extraordinary day in the usually warm and dry California summer, mother nature even delivered a sideshow in the form of a 5.5 magnitude earthquake, which shook the city in the mid-afternoon. The US Geological Survey reported the quake’s epicentre as the central California city of Ojai.
The emergency room of the Eisenhower Medical Centre in nearby Rancho Mirage was flooded after a nearby waterway breached its banks and send floodwaters into lowlands, including the approach to the hospital. Many of the city’s major roadways have been breached by floodwaters.
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