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.
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I’m confused.. the article calls it both a hurricane and a tropical storm. Plus, aren’t Pacific storms called typhoons, not hurricanes?
3. Maybe this will cause California to fall into the ocean?
SoCal just had a 5.0 earthquake near Ojai, Ventura County, where fortunately so far storm not too bad. Huge rainfall and some flooding inland Palmdale, Lancaster areas fyi.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/magnitude-5-0-earthquake-rattles-los-angeles-area/
Anything north of the equator in the east pacific is now called a Hurricane. And anything below a Category 1 Hurricane is considered a Tropical Storm.
So it started as a Tropical Storm, grew into a Cat 4 Hurricane, and then slowed back down to a Tropical Storm again.
I was watching it hit the high area along there.
Not trying to be rude, but there are a few areas evac’d before the storm, probably less than 2,000 people. One area is a bunch of small communities in the San Bernardino mountains where burn scars have created deadly mudslides earlier, so they expect more mudslides. iirc the other small communities are in the Angeles National Forest mountains. And part of Palos Verde peninsula was already evac’d due to homes collapsing.
Palmdale was not evac’d. Here’s a photo for today:
https://ktla.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2023/08/palmdale.png
As a former Lss Vegan, I was hoping for some nice drizzle that lasted longer than 30 minutes, and I would love to see the desert 24-hours later.
I get very homesick for Vegas, but I’m only 140 miles away and twice the altitude. This is the first monsoon season I’ve seen in a lot of years where there was actual rain, even up here.
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Las Vegas, far NW, it stopped shortly after I wrote that. Just a tiny bit of rain since then. No wind
Not really, it’s snowmelt in Colorado and Wyoming that helps Lake Mead. Even hurricane rain is a drop in the bucket.
Thanks. I found it interesting that Vegas got so much rain. It makes sense, it moved that way, bypassed LA Vounty altogether. Moved more up toward Barstow and will go up Nevada west of Vegas.
At 5 PM it was a bit SW of Palm Springs. Slowed to 50 mph.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep4+shtml/150034.shtml?cone
It’s going to die in the desert.
They are evacuating people for rain and a little bit of wind?
After the long slow rain, pretty much nothing else here, sky is lightening, seems we were mostly missed.
How long before they released a lot as of water due to some field mouse or random fish?
It’s actually going to come from the storm forming off the gulf coast of Florida now. Watching too many satellite feeds now. Always look to the IR water vapor to see how much is going to be carried and the the upper wind patterns for how the storm will be steered. Looks like Texas and Mexico will be hit with a tropical storm dropping lots of water later this week. Some of the rainfall from Hilary will fall on eastern drainage basins.
My original point was that no water from Hilary would cause flooding on the Rio Grande and it still stands. If any water does enter its watershed it will be caught by Lake Amistad. It is a 64,900 acre reservoir that is currently over 50 feet low.
Any water from another system is a different matter.
That’s too bad. I was hoping the storm would help fill Lake Mead. Oh well.
If the system in the Gulf does reach the Rio Grande means it would have to pass by me on the way and I’m all for that as we desperately need the rain.
that is what is most disturbing to the Dims.
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