After days of urgent warnings, Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Baja California on Sunday, turning roads into rivers and imperiling homes before barreling north toward Southern California.
By 6 p.m., the Southland was seeing flooding, downed trees, road closures and high winds. Forecasters with the National Weather Service in Las Vegas said conditions were continuing to deteriorate across parts of Southern California and western Nevada, especially the mountains and deserts. They said life-threatening, catastrophic flooding remained a possibility.Residents cross 70th Avenue in Thermal, Calif., as Tropical Storm Hilary dumps torrential rain on Aug. 20, 2023.
Nannie Auclair navigates wet conditions after buying beer at a neighborhood market in Thermal, Calif., on Aug. 20, 2023. Hillary Tucker, 34, and her dog Oakley make their way through a flooded street in L.A.’s Valley Village neighborhood on Aug. 20, 2023. Sergio Lopez, center, steers a large wooden plank to help Carlos Gutierrez, right, divert the floodwaters on Avenue 70 in Thermal, Calif.
A truck struggles to get through a flooded section of Venice Boulevard in Culver City on Aug. 20, 2023.
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