angeles averages a year in just a day. the l.a. times reported that 45 people were killed by that flooding and another 48 people were killed at sea. now part of the reason that storm was so devastating is that at the time, southern california didn t have its own government weather forecast office to properly warn the locals about what was coming. five months later, people set up shop. now today, more than eight days later, the national weather service issued its first ever tropical storm watch for the west coast of united states. that watch was in effect from the southern border of california all the way up to just north of los angeles. the storm named hurricane hillary is currently category four hurricane with sustained winds of hundred 30 miles an hour. it is expected to make landfall. as a hurricane in baja mexico before slowing down to 50 60 miles per hour and becoming a tropical storm as it crosses into the u.s. on sunday night. and for the first time in more
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