palm springs and surrounding california desert communities they got a heavy dose of non-stop rain. at one point the flooding was so bad crews had to pump water out of a local hospital in the area. but it is not just the flooding. all of that rain combined with loose dry ground is only a recipe for disaster. we saw mudslides and mud flows throughout the region as a result of tropical storm hillary and some folks have been rescued. so far thankfully no reports of any serious injuries or deaths in this storm. it sucks to see it go but liefshts can t be replaced. material objects can. it is better just to replace a house, fix whatever gets damaged than risk somebody drowning over somebody avoidable. in the middle of this storm if things weren t already bad enough, a lot of people throughout the los angeles area in the afternoon got an alert on their phone about a possible earthquake. i can say i felt the shaking. it was a magnitude 5.1