Up to a whole year's worth of rain is expected in one weather event.
Courtney Carpenter, a National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist, said experts forecast "a rare and dangerous rainfall event" that is expected to bring flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes and wind damage to Southern California, as well as life-threatening surf conditions and rip currents to the beaches.
It was still 1145km south-southeast of San Diego, California. It was moving north-northwest at 26km/h and was expected to turn more toward the north and pick up speed.A group of friends from Tijuana camp on the beach before the arrival of Hurricane Hilary in Ensenada, Mexico. The US National Park Service closed California's Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve to keep visitors from becoming stranded amid flooding. Cities across the region, including in Nevada and Arizona, offered sandbags to safeguard properties against floodwaters.
Officials in Southern California were re-enforcing sand berms, built to protect low-lying coastal communities against winter surf, like in Huntington Beach, which dubs itself as "Surf City USA." About 100 people sought refuge at storm shelters in the twin resorts of Los Cabos, at the southern tip of the Baja peninsula, and firefighters used an inflatable boat to rescue a family in San Jose del Cabo after the resort was hit by driving rain and wind. In La Paz, the picturesque capital of Baja California Sur state on the Sea of Cortez, police patrolled closed beaches to keep swimmers out of the whipped-up surf.
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