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One person was missing after the passage of Tropical Storm Hilarywhose remnants left southern California since Monday afternoon.
As of Monday night, no victims were reported in California. by the meteorological phenomenon, which affected regions of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
On Monday, a San Bernardino County search and rescue team was searching for A Seven Oaks resident woman after a current swept the trailer she was in down the Santa Ana River in the county’s mountains.
The victim he was among 30 Seven Oaks residents who could not be rescued before the Santa Ana River flooded its banks and Glass Road was damagedSan Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman Eric Sherwin said.
Hilary entered southern California this Sunday morning as a tropical storm after downgrading from a hurricane to landfall on the Baja California peninsula in Mexicoand it became the first tropical storm to reach the state in 84 years.
Public officials issued warnings about possible damage from flash floods that could pose a danger to human livesas well as extreme driving conditions on roads and highways made slippery by rain, as well as by falling trees and power lines.
In some areas, particularly inland, suffered from significant flooding that closed some roads due to the amount of rain brought by storm Hilary.
In community areas like Oak Glen and Forest Falls, in the San Bernardino Mountains, and Wrightwood, in the San Gabriel Mountains, saw landslides and mudslides, accompanied by rocks and logswhich rushed through stream beds and threatened to overflow.
A flow of water and mud affected a bridge in Banning, closing a portion of the 10 Freeway at the San Gorgonio Pass.
On Sunday and Monday, police and fire departments in all areas responded to car accidents in higher numbers than usual.
In Los Angeles, The Fire Department said it responded to more than 1,800 incidents that occurred from Sunday through Monday morning.with no reports of injuries or significant damage.
In addition to the automobile incidents, in southern California there were power outages affecting thousands of Southern California Edison and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power customers.
The causes that left the city of San Fernando almost entirely without electricity were being investigated for just over two hours approximately at noon this Monday. It was not ruled out that the suspension had some relationship with the passage of the storm Hilary.
Fortunately, no localities reported damage from the magnitude 5.1 earthquake that occurred this Sunday afternoon in the Ojai community area, in Ventura County, when southern California was on alert for the meteorological phenomenon.
Storm Hilary left record rainfall in some regions.
In the desert community of Palm Springs, this Sunday was the rainiest day in its history, with 3.18 incheswhich exceeded the record set in 1977 by more than an inch, according to the National Weather Service (NWS).
Another historical mark was taken in the NWS station in downtown Los Angeles, with 2.38 inches from Sunday morning to 3:00 a.m. Monday; while the NWS station at UCLA recorded more than 4 inches of rain.
In the mountain communities there were more intense rains. At Mount San Jacinto Station, the NWS recorded just under 12 inches of precipitationthe most water than any other part of Southern California during the tropical storm.
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