Tropical Storm Hilary hits California – in pictures

Vehicles drive through flood waters following heavy rain in Thousand Palms

Workers try to move a tree that fell over in Sun Valley

Karen Villa, who is homeless, clears the area around her tent after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded the encampment where she has lived for four years in Cathedral City

A vehicle is partially submerged in flood waters in Cathedral City. Hilary first made landfall as a hurricane in Mexico’s arid Baja California peninsula on Sunday before becoming the first tropical storm to hit southern California in 84 years

Rescuers in Cathedral City, near Palm Springs, drive a bulldozer through mud. They rescued 14 care home residents by scooping them up and carrying them to safety

A vehicle drives through flood waters in Thousand Palms

A worker from the Coachella Valley water department surveys the debris flow after heavy rains at Thunderbird Country Club in Rancho Mirage

An aerial view of stranded vehicles in Cathedral City

A fallen tree lies on two cars in Sun Valley. A tropical storm last roared into California in September 1939, ripping apart train tracks, tearing houses from their foundations and capsizing many boats. Nearly 100 people were killed on land and at sea

A fire crew clear mud in the aftermath of the storm in Yucaipa

Storm damage on Indian Canyon near Palm Springs. The wet weather might stave off wildfires for a few weeks in southern California and in parts of the Sierra Nevada but widespread rain is not expected in the most fire-prone areas

Caltrans maintenance crews clear the roadway of mud and debris in Kern and Inyo counties. As Hilary moved east into the neighbouring state of Nevada, flooding and power outages were reported and a boil-water order was issued for about 400 households in the Mount Charleston area, where the only road in and out was washed out

Firefighters help clear mud and debris for residents stuck in their home in Yucaipa

Vehicles and housing structures lie partially submerged after Tropical Storm Hilary flooded a homeless encampment in Cathedral City

Interstate 10 is blocked and deserted following heavy rains in Rancho Mirage. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Hilary had lost much of its steam and only vestiges of the storm were heading over the Rocky Mountains, but it warned that ‘continued life-threatening and locally catastrophic flooding’ was expected over portions of the US south-west