What's left of Hurricane Hillary is drowning parts of Southern California in rain.

Millions were told to stay home while forecasters issued warnings about potentially catastrophic flooding.

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What's left of Hurricane Hillary has been bringing heavy rain to parts of Southern California that have rarely if ever experienced a tropical storm.

Some roads are under water, and the nation's second largest school district won't open today, and millions are being told just to stay home.

Aaron Stone with Elias has been riding out the storm in Palm Springs.

Aaron, lots of concerns about high winds, heavy rain in the mountains, maybe causing some floods, either in coastal cities or desert communities, how bad has it been?

Yeah, there was significant flooding across the region, but as expected, mountain and desert communities, especially the San Bernardino Mountains and the Coachella Valley here where I'm at, saw the heaviest impacts and most flash flooding.

Here in the desert, the soils are so dry that they can't absorb this much water at once, and many streets are actually part of the flood control system here.

So they are expected to flood during heavy rains, but there hasn't been as widespread an impact to life as officials originally worried.

It seems like the public largely heard the message to prepare ahead of time and stay home, which helped a lot.

So that old adage, better safe than sorry, seems to have been the wisdom of the weekend.

Yeah, I went nowhere on Sunday, normally I'd be out, but I didn't.

Now, let me rain all over Southern California. What can you tell us about where this storm has maybe packed the biggest punch?

Yeah, so this is the first tropical storm to actually land in Southern California in several decades.

So it's fair to say most residents across the region have no living memory of what it is to experience something like this.

The storms have broken daily rainfall records across Southern California.

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