Nevada was also battered by extensive flooding as Tropical Storm Rachel swept through the region.
Dramatic footage from Las Vegas shows a woman stranded on top of her car as fast-moving floodwaters swelled around her. Other cars were seen partially submerged as trash rushed through the streets.
Emergency crews rushed to the woman’s rescue, bringing her to safety as the waters continued to rise.
Heavy rainfall from Rachel triggered widespread flooding across the area, prompting dozens of calls for rescue.
Another video captured floodwaters raging through the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, turning streets into rivers as more than an inch of rain drenched the city.
The downpour also shattered a previous rainfall record, marking one of the city’s wettest days on record.
This comes as Long Beach residents have been left devastated after powerful waves from Tropical Storm Rachel battered their multimillion-dollar beachfront homes, destroying properties, forcing families to evacuate and ripping apart a century-old boardwalk.
The destruction unfolded along the city’s Alamitos Peninsula, where massive waves tore through wooden sections of the historic waterfront boardwalk, sending seawater rushing into homes and streets.
At least eight buildings representing 13 addresses were red-tagged as unsafe to enter, while another was yellow-tagged, allowing residents limited access to retrieve their belongings, according to Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson.
For some residents, the storm meant watching their dream homes get swallowed by the ocean.
Natalie Cabrera, 59, who has lived on the peninsula for just a year and a half, and rents a beachfront bungalow said she was devastated after the storm caused water damage to her home’s foundation.
“I don’t want to leave. At all. Ever. This was my dream,” Cabrera said.
Cabrera described how the relentless waves battered her property, sending water underneath the building and damaging everything inside.
“The floor is squishy. Because the ocean just kept hitting and hitting my home, and the water went underneath,” she said.
“Water didn’t come through my front door. It came up from the ground.” Cabrera said neighbors who had lived in the area for decades had never witnessed anything like it.
“My other neighbor’s been here 30 years, and never, ever have they seen this. So I’m a newbie to the neighborhood. And I’m just devastated to have to leave,” she said.
Cabrera said she was going to move to Ontario, where her son and daughter-in-law have a home. “That’s where I grew up. So I guess I’m just going to have to go back,” she said.
Despite the devastation, Cabrera said she was grateful that her family and neighbors were safe and recalled how complete strangers rushed to help protect her property.
“Everybody just came together, total strangers. There was a young kid from USC, fishing. He saw the devastation of the waves just rushing through my front door, and he came.
“As fast as the water came, they’re shoveling the sand out.”
