Tag: Coachella Valley (Calif)

In Several California Communities, Recovery Efforts Continue After the Storm

While most of Southern California survived Tropical Storm Hilary without serious damage, a handful of mountain and desert areas east of Los Angeles were still trying to recover.

California’s Last Tropical Storm In 1939 Killed Almost 100

The most recent tropical cyclone to make landfall in Southern California capsized boats, cut power and phone service and destroyed homes along the coast.

When There’s Arsenic in the Water, but ‘We Have Nowhere to Go’

The Environmental Protection Agency found that water at a mobile home park that mostly serves agricultural workers contained almost 10 times the allowable limit of arsenic. But housing alternatives are hard to find.