Been more than 2200 buildings have been destroyed and others have been been destroyed and others have been damaged at a cost of 6 billion been damaged at a cost of 6 billion. But far more devastating than any material loss is devastating than any material loss is the loss of precious lives, loss is the loss of precious lives, of loss is the loss of precious lives, of mothers, fathers, grandparents, sons and daughters, wives that can never be replaced. Now, we are engaged in the difficult work of searching for survivors, reuniting of searching for survivors, reuniting separated families and identifying the remains of those and identifying the remains of those we and identifying the remains of those we have lost. There are now those we have lost. There are now 470 those we have lost. There are now 470 Search And Rescue workers now 470 Search And Rescue workers and 40 search dogs combing workers and 40 search dogs combing through the hundreds of burned combing through the hundreds of burn
Are used to seeing on the east coast with a tropical storm landfall. first and foremost, the dry desert basically packs that upper layer of the soil, making it so that it can t absorb the moisture. so when the rain falls, it immediately runs off and just creates almost an immediate flood. the other thing is if there is a lot of terrain in, hear a lot of mountains in here. when you get that funneling of the rings, it is sort of a squeezing of the moisture, you can really localize the flooding over one spot versus over on the east coast where things are relatively flat. you spread it out more. we are getting this in now, damien, i want you to weigh in on, this that hilary has made landfall in northern baja, california. tropical storm conditions we re hearing, heavy rains affecting portions of the southwest u.s.. anything else you are getting in on that? if you look at the latest radar, you can see that the
In. this time it is expected to make landfall so that is unusual. i think the last time before this, a centre of a tropical storm got very close to the border of arizona and california which was in 1997. i do believe that nora does count as a tropical storm landfall, but it was in south west arizona and far southeast california. the real problem for south western united states is all this moisture and instability getting to a place where they don t normally get it. usually all these coastal ranges that we have across the west united states keep the pacific moisture from making it into the interior. like in the portions of southern nevada and into the deserts. they would not be deserts otherwise. david, thank you so much for your time and for giving us so much information there. we appreciate it. much information there. we areciate it. ., ., appreciate it. you are welcome. that is david appreciate it. you are welcome. that is david roth appreciate it. you are welcome. that is david