![]() “It has also damaged and undercut the two main rail lines, so you have no trains coming in or out of the Coachella Valley.” “This magnitude, I've never seen this broad of an area of flash flooding.” with an average storm you don’t typically get that,” he said. “This is different, this is really massive,” he said of the unusual storm, which dumped water on normally dry mountain peaks as well as wetter ones, including Mount San Gorgonio and Mount San Jacinto. ![]() "The Whitewater River jumped its banks, broke a berm and then that just sent a wall of mud and debris partially over the I-10 last night, going over Highway 111, and then came down here (at Indian Canyon Drive) and just completely overwhelmed this area," he said in a video he posted online after touring the area on Monday. So much rain fell so fast from steep mountains above the valley floor that ”the I-10 got jumped last night by the Whitewater River,” said veteran National Weather Service meteorologist Alex Tardy. Eric Hartley The Whitewater River crossed I-10 during storm, NWS says Flooding had apparently shifted a large amount of the earth under the right side of its supports.įortunately, things were more centered inside the gates, where flights were taking off and arriving, mostly on time with a few delays. One of the major signs for Palm Springs International Airport, at Gene Autry Trail and Ramon Road, was slumped to one side Monday. So it's only appropriate for the valley's airport - or at least the sign for it - to be a bit out of sorts, too. The entire region was knocked off kilter by Tropical Storm Hilary. ― Janet Wilson Feeling askew? It's not just you
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