Calgarians recount earthquake, extreme weather from Hurricane Hilary
Global News
The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary dropped more than half an average year’s worth of rain on some areas.
Calgarians recounted extreme weather and earthquakes from Hurricane Hilary after returning from California and Nevada on Monday.
The storm first made landfall in Mexico’s arid Baja California peninsula on Sunday in a sparsely-populated area about 250 kilometres south of Ensenada. It then moved through mudslide-prone Tijuana, threatening the improvised homes that cling to hillsides just south of the U.S. border.
The first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years, Hilary dropped more than half an average year’s worth of rain on some areas, including the desert resort city of Palm Springs, which saw nearly 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) of rain by Sunday evening.
Jose Lorenz Manlapig was in Southern California for a wedding when a magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit the area on Sunday hours after Hurricane Hilary brought torrential rain.
The 5.1-magnitude quake struck seven kilometres southeast of Ojai, a mountain community 130 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles.
He said it was raining non-stop with strong winds, which made driving treacherous. However, he did not see any damage caused by the earthquake and hurricane.
“We were worried for everyone. We weren’t sure if we were able to get to the venue or event,” he told Global News. “Thank God we were able to finish everything on time.”
The hurricane didn’t just affect Californians.
