00:00 Good morning from Banning, California. I'm right along I-10 and the situation just to the east
00:05 here along I-10 is really bad along the Whitewater River. It ended up coming up and over I-10 last
00:12 night closing down the interstate and causing damage to the interstate itself from Whitewater
00:18 all the way downstream. And the Whitewater River actually flows right along I-10 and as that flow
00:24 increased over 20,000 cubic feet per second last night it ended up overtopping portions of I-10
00:30 flooding out some neighborhoods along the Palm Springs area and definitely led to a very
00:34 dangerous night along I-10 for motorists. All of that rain was dumped up on the peaks of the San
00:40 Bernardino Range and just about every single river and wash flooded and had a big time debris flow.
00:46 That includes the Oak Glen area down Birch Creek, Forest Falls, Mill Creek. You also had the San
00:52 Gugorno Wash that ended up flooding very big and took out the bridge here just to the north of
00:57 Banning. But the big river is the Whitewater River that extends off to the east of that big peak
01:03 and that's where all the upslope flow was last night and the big time rainfall rates that persisted.
01:08 Those heavy rains anchored over the peaks in the San Bernardino Range and that led to
01:12 multiple surges down each individual wash. Probably three to four different flood surges
01:18 and that ended up flooding out Interstate 10. It looks like traffic is still backed up. There
01:23 is some indication that Interstate 10 is going to be opening up later on in the morning but traffic
01:28 is certainly backed up and it's getting diverted around the road closure along I-10 near the Palm
01:34 Springs area. The air out here feels very stable right now. You can definitely tell it's in the
01:39 wake of a big rainmaker tropical storm in the desert but definitely a very unprecedented
01:45 hydrological disaster around here in Southern California that played out yesterday with
01:49 Tropical Storm Hillary.
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