Hilary, the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, created very unusual sites throughout a region accustomed to dry and sunny weather.
, the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, created very unusual sites throughout a region accustomed to dry and sunny weather.One photograph taken near Palm Springs shows a stretch of the I-10 freeway caked in floodwaters and mud. Another shows cars trapped in the mud that consumed Cathedral City streets, and over in the San Fernando Valley, vehicles were seen partially submerged on the Golden State Freeway.
Trees were knocked down into homes and cars -- luckily, no one was injured. Maura Taura told the Associated Press a three-story-tall tree crashed down on her daughter's two cars but missed the family's house in the Sun Valley.Still, some managed to make light of the gloomy day. Tourists geared up in ponchos to see the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and down in Carlsbad, surfers used boards attached to bikes to skim across fully soaked lawns.
A vehicle makes its way through a flooded street in a suburban area of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles as a tropical storm moves into the area on Aug. 20, 2023.A toppled tree from the tropical storm covers a car in Los Angeles on Aug. 21, 2023.A person pushes a cart on a flooded street as Tropical Storm Hilary heads north near Palm Springs, California, on Aug. 20, 2023.
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