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Gavin Newsom declares a state of emergency and sheriff orders evacuations as Hurricane Hilary bears down on California: Panic buying sweeps stores as 42M brace for 'catastrophic flooding'
Daily Mail UK ^ | August 20, 2023 | Alice Wright

Posted on 08/20/2023 1:38:30 AM PDT by Morgana

Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency as California braces for Hurricane Hilary to hit today.

Residents in the south of the state have been given evacuation orders ahead of the historic storm making landfall around 1pm.

The governor's office has tried to reassure them extensive preparations are underway, including the deploying of 'more than 7,500 boots on the ground'.

But panic buying has set in and some supermarket shelves in San Diego and Los Angeles were stripped bare of essentials such as water and tinned food.

The tropical storm, the first set to make landfall in California since 1939, could impact more than 42million people.

'California continues to mobilize ahead of Hurricane Hilary's projected landfall in Southern California.

'People are urged to take all necessary precautions today' the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement on Saturday evening.

'Governor Gavin Newsom proclaimed a state of emergency for much of Southern California to support Hurricane Hilary response and recovery efforts as the state continues mobilizing and coordinating resources ahead of the storm's forecasted impacts starting today.

'At the Governor's direction, there are currently more than 7,500 boots on the ground deployed to help local communities protect Californians from the impacts of Hurricane Hilary,' it read.

The state has prepared water rescue teams, California National Guard personnel and flood fighting equipment ahead of Hilary's arrival, officials said.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; hurricane; newsom; storm; weather
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To: Morgana

California: Panic buying sweeps stores as 42M brace for storm.

Nothing like waiting to the last minute to prepare for an emergency.

It’s California Jim


101 posted on 08/20/2023 9:54:26 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Morgana

Fear mongering. By Newscum and Mail.

It’s not a hurricane. It keeps dissipating as it moves north over the ocean.

It should a lot later today.


102 posted on 08/20/2023 9:57:40 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: jy8z
check out www.nhc.noaa.gov
The satellite imagery and the live radar are what I watch here in Fl to follow the storms.
Here's the rainfall potential for the storm.
a lot of it is EAST of the rockies.

103 posted on 08/20/2023 9:59:52 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Waverunner

Where does that NWS graphic show rainfall East of the Rockies?


104 posted on 08/20/2023 10:04:34 AM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

“ We’re now up to 13 hours of steady rain…”

Where are you?


105 posted on 08/20/2023 10:08:31 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: cuz1961

“Just got booted off 2 of the 3 free hotspots here BEFORE I could get back on and post”

Something just hit my firewall twice because I was posting in this thread. Keywords Climate BS, Hype, climate porn, Etc.

My box locked up and shut down to prevent it.


106 posted on 08/20/2023 10:46:16 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Morgana

Why the bell isn’t Newsom signing orders on an EV, not a gargantuan gas guzzling Hummer? When times turn tough, gasoline it is!


107 posted on 08/20/2023 10:54:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: ridesthemiles

The headwaters of the Rio Grande are in Colorado.


108 posted on 08/20/2023 10:57:04 AM PDT by jy8z (Everything you think, do and say is from the pill you took today.)
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To: Morgana

Waiting for the looting and shoplifting to go ballistic. Hows those Defund The Police liberal democrat policies working for ya California?


109 posted on 08/20/2023 11:27:55 AM PDT by know.your.why
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To: Bon of Babble
"won't happen" b/c "boots on the ground."

"Boots on tha ground" meets "Pants on tha ground".

https://youtu.be/UfXs3qjPNNc?t=22
110 posted on 08/20/2023 11:37:59 AM PDT by know.your.why
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To: lefty-lie-spy

WOW history says different, the hurricanes become tropical storms and do cause damage.


111 posted on 08/20/2023 11:47:25 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Morgana

gavin’s a little late to the party, most of the effected counties already had taken steps on friday!!!


112 posted on 08/20/2023 11:48:57 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: markman46
42M brace for 'catastrophic flooding'

Just a bit dramatic unless the Good Lord called on Noah to start building an ark.

113 posted on 08/20/2023 11:52:28 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Openurmind

no one is under any evacuation orders in any of the socal counties, neither in the central valley county of kern, just more DM BS


114 posted on 08/20/2023 12:01:23 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Zenjitsuman

We don’t know how this year’s hurricane season will impact Florida. It might be better for DeSantis to zip it until after hurricane season.


115 posted on 08/20/2023 12:38:01 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: markman46

“no one is under any evacuation orders in any of the socal counties.”

Yeah, I figured. Just climate hoax chicken little propaganda.


116 posted on 08/20/2023 12:39:24 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: AndyJackson

yep and i have seen no ark’s being build


117 posted on 08/20/2023 1:25:38 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Openurmind

yep just more warming BS


118 posted on 08/20/2023 1:26:11 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Isn’t that rain in Las Vegas good for Lake Mead?


119 posted on 08/20/2023 1:33:13 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Morgana

Big Daddy will jump right on that.|
Will also be there asap so the sheep will shout praises upon me.


120 posted on 08/20/2023 2:20:08 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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