![]() ![]() Crews pumped floodwaters out of the emergency room at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage. Dozens of cars were trapped in floodwaters in Palm Springs and surrounding desert communities across the Coachella Valley. Mud and boulders spilled onto highways, water overwhelmed drainage systems and tree branches fell in neighborhoods from San Diego to Los Angeles. Rescue workers saved four other people, said Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, the mayor of Mulege township. One person drowned Saturday in the Mexican town of Santa Rosalia when a vehicle was swept away in an overflowing stream, The Associated Press reported. If Hilary had come in off the ocean in a landfall in California, it would have been the first tropical storm to do so since 1939. Hilary was the first tropical storm to cross into California from Mexico since Nora in 1997, the weather service office in San Diego said Sunday night. Hilary was toppling trees and causing mudslides in the San Diego area. Hilary brought intensifying rain to the region, with some mountain and desert areas seeing more than half an average year’s worth of rain come down in just one day, including the desert resort city of Palm Springs, which saw nearly 3 inches of rain by Sunday evening. MARINA DEL REY, Calif − Tropical Storm Hilary drenched Southern California from the coast to inland mountains and deserts Sunday evening, prompting rescues from swollen rivers and forcing some of the nation’s largest school districts to cancel Monday classes Editor's note: For the latest news on Hilary and the storm's path please follow our live updates file here ![]()
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