Los Angeles avoided significant roadway disasters as tropical storm arrived weaker than expected and when streets were relatively empty, in part due to people heeding warnings.
Poor farming communities in Coachella Valley flatlands face dire threat of flooding as Tropical storm Hilary pounds SoCal.Riverside County was among the hardest-hit areas. A foot of mud and debris covered Interstate 10 at Bob Hope Drive in the Thousand Palms area Monday morning.
“When it initially started, there were a number of traffic accidents across roadways throughout Riverside County,” said Shane Reichardt, spokesperson for the Riverside County Emergency Management Department. “But we were continuing to push the message that we wanted people to stay indoors and to limit their travel. And a lot of residents took heed to that.”
Not all, of course. In Cathedral City on Sunday, Jimmy Laker and his girlfriend, Cindy Gilissen Smith, drove through river-like streets in their Chevy 2500 pickup to help trapped residents, some who had taken refuge on their roof.“I felt I was pushing my luck,” Laker later said. As he drove through the night he could could hear the brakes screaming from all of the mud that got stuck in them.
The region had braced since Wednesday for what had been expected to be the first tropical storm in Southern California in more than eight decades. It weakened significantly before it made landfall, and the region never saw the gale force winds that many feared would come.“It was during the weekend, so we didn’t have commuter traffic that we might normally see,” Reichardt said. “It also helped that the brunt of the storm happened in the evening and overnight hours.
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