Southern Californians are cleaning up damage and debris after the state's first tropical storm since 1939.
abc.net.au/news/pictures-show-devastation-of-tropical-cyclone-hilary-california/102758392Residents of the Palm Springs area of California who have spent the night trapped in their homes — or on its roof — are surveying the damage from Tropical Cyclone Hilary.
The event arrived in California as a rare tropical storm that dumped 10 to 12 centimetres of rain on coastal areas and 25 centimetres or more in the mountains, National Weather Service meteorologist Richard Thompson said.Homes in Cathedral City were inundated by flooding brought by the storm. The storm produced flash floods in the San Gabriel Mountains east of Los Angeles and inundated more densely populated coastal areas of Ventura County north-west of the city.An elderly woman is rescued from a care home in Cathedral City.In Cathedral City, a neighbour of Palm Springs east of Los Angeles, people raked out debris and assessed the damage after the water rose thigh-high in some areas, witnesses said.
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