Punishing downpours continued to slam Southern California on Monday after Tropical Storm Hilary – the weakened-but-still-potent stays of what had been a hurricane – made landfall Sunday in Southern California, prompting downpours and flooding. In keeping with the Nationwide Climate Service in Los Angeles, “all rainfall daily records have been broken.”

The brunt of the storm pounded the Los Angeles space Sunday and Nationwide Climate Service meteorologist Lisa Phillips mentioned showers will proceed into Monday earlier than the precipitation begins to taper off.

A number of the report rainfall totals as of three a.m. PT:

HOLLYWOOD RESERVOIR…………… 4.29
BEVERLY HILLS………………… 4.08
BEL AIR……………………… 3.13
CULVER CITY………………….. 3.01
SANTA MONICA (KSMO)…………… 2.82
LONG BEACH (KLGB)…………….. 2.45
LA DOWNTOWN (CQT)…………….. 2.38
LA AIRPORT(KLAX)……………… 2.16

EAST PASADENA………………… 5.21
EAGLE ROCK RESERVOIR………….. 4.29
LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE………….. 4.24
VAN NUYS (KVNY)………………. 4.20
NORTHRIDGE…………………… 4.00
BURBANK (KBUR)……………….. 3.47

SAUGUS………………………. 6.45
LAKE PALMDALE………………… 5.98
NEWHALL……………………… 5.59

STUNT RANCH………………….. 4.45
CALABASAS……………………. 3.70
MOORPARK…………………….. 3.58
CIRCLE X RANCH……………….. 3.50
THOUSAND OAKS………………… 3.29

These totals prompted a flash flood warning that flashed throughout cellphone screens from Malibu to Pomona within the west and east and from Lancaster to Inglewood, north to south. It was prolonged early this morning and at the moment expires at 8 a.m.

Los Angeles Fireplace Division Chief Kristin Crowley mentioned that as of 4 p.m. Sunday, there had been no experiences of accidents or main harm stemming from the storm, however she mentioned there have been greater than a dozen experiences of flooding throughout the town, and greater than 5,000 Division of Water and Energy prospects had misplaced electrical energy, with Boyle Heights and Hollywood among the many hardest-hit areas. Movies posted on-line confirmed the Melrose space flooded.

In keeping with Crowley, there have been experiences of some energy traces down, and a pair of particles flows have been reported within the Sherman Oaks space, however with no structural harm. She mentioned residents of a Koreatown condominium constructing reported a partial roof collapse.

Two vehicles have been noticed in an inundated flood management channel close to Lincoln Heights, however no person was discovered inside or close to the autos, Crowley mentioned. Crews surveying the realm from a helicopter noticed an individual within the water additional down the river outdoors the town limits, and county crews performed a swift-water rescue.

In Santa Monica, it was all flowing into the ocean through the storm drain retailers at Pico and Will Rodgers State Seaside.

Palm Springs and areas to the east of Los Angeles have been hit particularly onerous. Mt. San Jacinto, which towers over the Coachella Valley to the west at practically 11,000 ft, had clocked 10.17 inches of rain by Sunday night. In fact, a lot of that rain ran off the mountain, placing parts of Cathedral Metropolis underwater. A number of roads within the space have been washed out and Palm Springs 911 phone service went down, due partly to the flood of calls.

Water additionally rolled towards Palm Springs from the north, as a flash flood hit the Whitewater wash that runs beneath the ten Freeway. That freeway was closed this morning a Bob Hope Drive as a result of main flooding.

Higher Mission Creek above Banning noticed greater than 10 inches of rain, prompting evacuation orders for Oak Glen and different areas close to Yucaipa under the El Dorado Fireplace burn scar.

Close by, in Forest Falls, a flash flood despatched boulders working downslope and throughout a roadway.

Aa introduced lat eSunday, all Los Angeles Unified College District campuses can be closed Monday. Superintendent Alberto Carvalho mentioned he understands the choice could anger some mother and father or others, however he mentioned the district can’t responsibly plan to open campuses Monday when harm from the storm may happen in a single day, with none likelihood for buildings to be correctly inspected earlier than college students and employees begin arriving.

The storm generally known as Hilary resulted within the first tropical storm warning ever issued for Southern California. Earlier than Sunday, a tropical storm had not made landfall in California since 1939.

Hilary weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm off the coast of Baja California early Sunday.

Los Angeles County officers mentioned all county parks, buildings and amenities could be closed Sunday and Monday, together with, however not restricted to:
— Picnic shelters;
— Playgrounds;
— Multi-use trails;
— Restrooms;
— Botanical gardens and arboretums;
— Lakes and swim seashores;
— Swimming pools and aquatic facilities
— Pure areas and nature facilities
— Efficiency venues.

Many leisure venues have been closed throughout the Southland on Sunday, together with Magic Mountain and Knott’s Berry Farm. Disneyland closed early on Sunday.

Including to the combo, a robust earthquake centered in Ventura County shook most of Southern California on Sunday.

The magnitude-5.1 temblor struck at 2:41 p.m., about 4 miles southeast of Ojai, in keeping with the U.S. Geological Survey. It was shortly adopted by a sequence of aftershocks, the most important of them measuring a magnitude of three.6.

There have been no fast experiences of accidents or harm.

Metropolis Information Service contributed to this report.