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Geologists survey San Diego County cliffs, bluffs after Hilary
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Damage from Tropical Storm Hilary is minor across most of San Diego County but are there potential dangers yet to be revealed in the days to come?
Dr. Pat Abbott is a professor of geology emeritus at San Diego State University. He considered the question.
"Well, we were very, very lucky with Tropical Storm Hilary; instead of coming with the force we expected; luckily the storm made landfall over 200 miles down in Baja, California; it lost a lot of energy coming up across the border and it traveled across the county remarkably fast," Abbott said.
He says if the storm had stalled here or moved more slowly, we could have seen five times the amount of rain that we had.
MORE: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/after-hilary-could-san-diego-county-see-similar-storms/509-9908fc03-7eaa-4a52-891c-01415ce66428