Despite America’s “prepper” culture and recent experience managing disasters, Hurricane Hilary has left LA residents anxious and uncertain. Parts of California could see up to a year’s rain in two days.
The warnings about Hurricane Hilary are loud and clear: the city of Los Angeles is bracing itself for a once-in-a-century storm. Some residents have been handed pre-emptive evacuation orders, while others are clearing supermarket shelves of essential items.
Still, even a one on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale is brutal: up to 150 km/h winds, capable of snapping trees, damaging houses and toppling power lines. Parts of California could see up to a year’s rain in two days. The National Weather Service is warning of communications outages, and the potential for “extensive damage”.
The city of Los Angeles has already flagged that all county parks, buildings and facilities, including beaches, playgrounds, lake recreation areas and outdoor performance venues will be closed on Sunday and Monday, local time. Fire authorities are also issuing sandbags; in Palm Springs more than 20,000 have been handed out.While the world’s eyes are on LA, in truth it is inland – the mountains and the desert – that will be hardest hit.
The deteriorating weather conditions have even slowed the space race: Elon Musk’s spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX has delayed a planned launch of the Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base, north of Los Angeles, until conditions are clearer. The rocket was to carry a payload of 21 new Starlink satellites.
Hilary is the sixth hurricane of the Pacific hurricane season, which runs from May to November in the northern hemisphere. Before this, the most notable was Hurricane Dora which clashed with a strong anticyclone resulting in devastating gradient winds that battered the Hawaiian islands and exacerbated the spread of wildfires there, including the Lahaina fire on the island of Maui.
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