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MECCA, Calif. (AP) — Early morning thunderstorms over southeastern California's Coachella Valley has caused flooding in mobile home parks in Mecca and Thermal.
The Desert Sun (mydesert.co/Odhpgb) reports that in Thermal half of the Desert Mobile Home Park better known as Duroville was flooded Tuesday with a foot of water.
Tom Flynn, the trailer park's court-appointed receiver, says as many as 800 residents are without power or fresh water.
Riverside County fire Capt. Scott Visyak tells the newspaper that flooding also hit mobile home parks in Mecca, where four houses were earlier reported flooded.
The National Weather Service says more than 5 inches of rain fell in an area bounded by the Salton Sea communities of Oasis, Mecca and North Shore.
More than 3 feet of water flooded Highway 111.
