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are used to seeing on the east coast with a tropical storm landfall. first and foremost, the dry desert basically packs that upper layer of the soil, making it so that it can't absorb the moisture. so when the rain falls, it immediately runs off and just creates almost an immediate flood. the other thing is if there is a lot of terrain in, hear a lot of mountains in here. when you get that funneling of the rings, it is sort of a squeezing of the moisture, you can really localize the flooding over one spot versus over on the east coast where things are relatively flat. you spread it out more. >> we are getting this in now, damien, i want you to weigh in on, this that hilary has made landfall in northern baja, california. tropical storm conditions we're hearing, heavy rains affecting portions of the southwest u.s.. anything else you are getting in on that? >> if you look at the latest radar, you can see that the