Deadly floodwaters inundated streets across Mexico’s arid Baja California on Sunday as tropical storm Hilary moved ashore, carrying torrential rain into Southern California, with concerns mounting that flash floods could strike in places as far north as Idaho that rarely get such heavy rain.
Forecasters said Hilary was the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, bringing the potential for flash floods, mudslides, isolated tornadoes, high winds and power outages.
Hilary made landfall along the Mexican coast in a sparsely populated area about 250 kilometres south of Ensenada, on a path to hit mudslide-prone Tijuana Sunday evening, threatening the improvised
