California braces for more flooding after Hilary drenches Los Angeles with record rain

California was bracing for much flash flooding connected Monday arsenic the archetypal tropical tempest to deed the authorities since the 1930s dumped grounds rainfall successful the Los Angeles country implicit the weekend.

Hilary made landfall successful Baja California, Mexico, arsenic a tropical tempest connected Sunday. The tempest had breached virtually each rainfall records successful Los Angeles by Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Southern California was deed by 3.0-magnitude aftershocks from an earthquake successful Ventura County connected the aforesaid time Hilary lashed the country with grounds rainfall.

No fatalities person been reported from the tempest oregon the earthquake, according Los Angeles County officials. The quake has not caused immoderate important harm successful Los Angeles, according to officials.

Hilary has since weakened into a post-tropical cyclone with winds up to 35 miles per hour. The tempest is expected to bring further rainfall of 1 to 3 inches crossed portions of Southern California and Southern Nevada done Monday with flash flooding inactive expected, according to the Weather Prediction Center.

Hilary was heading toward Oregon and Idaho with 1 to 3 inches of full rainfall expected successful immoderate portions of the states. Flash flooding is expected successful immoderate areas done Tuesday morning.

The tempest triggered stone and mudslides that blocked roads successful upland communities successful San Bernardino County, according to NBC Los Angeles. The floods near cars stranded connected a agelong of freeway successful Sun Valley.

Los Angeles Unified, the 2nd largest schoolhouse territory successful the U.S., cancelled each classes Monday.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo declared emergencies successful their states successful effect to the tempest implicit the weekend.

President Joe Biden said Sunday that helium is intimately greeting the tempest and the earthquake successful Southern California. Biden said helium was briefed by Newsom connected the exigency preparations. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has deployed national unit and supplies to enactment impacted communities, according to the president.

Biden and archetypal woman Jill Biden were successful Lake Tahoe, Nevada, connected Monday. They are scheduled to alert from determination to Maui to survey harm from catastrophic wildfires that person near astatine slightest 114 radical dormant and 850 missing, portion causing billions of dollars successful spot damage.