When a deluge of mud and rain from Tropical Storm Hilary hit a neighborhood in Cathedral City, Calif., neighbors scrambled, pulling people from debris flows and shoveling dirt.
, stunned residents of the Panorama neighborhood all seemed to have the same question: Who are all these people?
A weather station in Cathedral Canyon, about 4 miles south of the Panorama neighborhood, recorded 3.61 inches of rain during the storm, more than the 3.23 inches in adjacent Palm Springs, which was enough to set a daily rainfall record. Some of those stranded in vehicles had been diverted from nearby Interstate 10, washed out and filled with debris, and ended up on Avenida La Vista amid sticky waves of mud, neighbors said.
Neighbors were in driveways, sitting in folding chairs and shoveling more mud as city bulldozers beeped incessantly in reverse and scraped the avenue of mud and debris. Police sat in pickups and SUVs left running for the air conditioning.
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