Hot water and hot air were both crucial factors that enabled Hilary’s rapid growth - steering it on an unusual but not quite unprecedented path that dumped rain in some normally bone-dry places. Firefighters in Canada are battling that nation’s worst fire season on record. Hawaii’s island of Maui is still reeling from a blaze that killed more than 100 people, making it the deadliest U.S. Hilary is just the latest major weather event to wreak havoc across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. “It was very unnerving,” Flanigan said, adding that the family had gone to stay with relatives while removal crews came Monday morning to remove the branches. She later learned it landed on the bed of her neighbor’s 11-year-old son, who luckily was in another room. On Monday, a helicopter rescued one person with a leg injury and efforts to retrieve the others were expected to continue into Tuesday morning, although some people refused to fly out and wanted to wait for the floodwaters to recede, authorities said.Īuthorities also say a woman was unaccounted for after witnesses saw her trailer swept away in a flash flood.Īmid the storm Sunday in Palm Desert, Terry Flanigan heard a huge crash and then got a text from a neighbor that a Eucalyptus tree, more than 100 feet (30 meters) tall, fell onto a condo across the street. So far, no deaths, serious injuries or extreme damages have been reported in the state, though officials warned that risks remain, especially in the mountainous regions where the wet hillsides could unleash mudslides. Besides the tropical storm, which produced tornado warnings, there were wildfires and a moderate earthquake north of Los Angeles.
Hilary first slammed into Mexico’s arid Baja California Peninsula as a hurricane, causing one death and widespread flooding before becoming a tropical storm, one of several potentially catastrophic natural events affecting California on Sunday. Forecasters said the threat for flooding in states farther north on Monday was highest across much of southeastern Oregon into the west-central mountains of Idaho, with potential thunderstorms and localized torrential rains on Tuesday. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hilary had lost much of its steam and only vestiges of the storm were heading over the Rocky Mountains, but it warned that “continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding” was expected over portions of the Southwestern U.S., following record-breaking rainfall.
(AP) - Tropical Storm Hilary flooded roads, toppled trees and forced a rescue by bulldozer of more than a dozen older residents trapped by mud in a care home Monday as it marched northward, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states.
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