Is anyone in the path and what are you doing to prepare? 
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I believe hurricanes on the WEST coast are called “typhoons”? Considering drought and other water problems out there, I’d be a little more appreciative, that far inland as AZ and NV.
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N.W.S. and AccuWeather is calling it a Hurricane sooo… 
I was thinking the same thing as the area is so parched. Stay safe out there. 
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We’ll probably get a little of it here in Utah, we need the water so Let It Pour.
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Turns into a typhoon when it crosses international date line, eastern hemisphere typhoon, western hemisphere hurricaine.
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Not worried here in NW NV, I will welcome the rain with open arms and get it a lawn chair to sit down and take a load off its puppies. 
Things called Hilary are usually full of hot air and pass off into the distance
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Things called Hillary are more repulsive to look at that things called Medusa.
Good luck with that.
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In southern Nevada and will probably get hit on Sunday. Bought an extra bottle of bourbon in case the water goes out. Cigar humidor is full.
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Sounds just about right. 
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In southern Nevada and will probably get hit on Sunday. Bought an extra bottle of bourbon in case the water goes out. Cigar humidor is full.
“I want to party with YOU dude!”
Nah, Here in NU-Meh-ee-ko we be’s ahriiight, Hot , dusty, full of mexican-jumpin’-Beans nada rain for weeks.
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Here in AZ by the time it gets here should not be any different than a standard Monsoon storm. Not worried one bit.
I find it funny this one is named Hilary though 
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I am at ground zero working in the Mojave Desert in SoCal at the moment.
The soils here are very hydrophobic so this much rain at once will likely flash flood the washes, overwhelm the flood controls and make a mess of the roads.
They are doing major flood control projects on the highways right now but they are far from complete. Last year one of the areas they had just redone with a new bridge and new drainage got blown out by a big thunderstorm. So not sure how even the updated roads will handle the upper end of the rain forecasts if it ends up being a worse case scenario.
I’m in a hotel on the valley bottom so not all that much I can do to prepare. My work vehicle is always stocked with a week’s worth of food and water and a full tank of gas so that’s gonna have to do. The FEMA maps say I’m not in a flood zone but their maps aren’t very accurate especially for big events like these. But there are no major washes by the hotel and there is a cement wall on the side water might come from if things got crazy.
The grocery store seemed maybe a little busier than normal but the shelves were as full as they have been in the days since the Covid/supply chain shortages began. Most people here seem to have an I don’t think it’ll be bad attitude. That might change tomorrow as the front end of the storm moves in. But these storms tend to fizzle quickly once they hit land so it’s likely most everyone who doesn’t drive into flooding roads will be OK.
The big issue will be if the main roads suffer heavy damage and the power goes out for any length of time. I’m also not far from the San Andreas fault so there is always a chance we can double up on disasters this weekend;/
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Stay safe out their Brother, update us when you can. 
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Updated path.
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I am in the tropical storm warning zone. Should be interesting. They are forecasting up to twice the normal annual rainfall total for the valley over the next 3 days. We already had a couple big storms last night.
Thought about bugging out before those hit but the road I usually take home got closed down due to a flash flood about the time I would have been on it and now it is raining pretty hard between me and home so glad I wasn’t out in that last night or now.
My hotel is inside the defenses of a huge flood control project. A big flood event happened here in 2019 and the spot I am staying at was not affected. But I have still identified several escape routes and safety zones in case the flood control levies start to fail. Since I have to be here on Monday to help clean up the mess it seems to make the most sense to stay.
Local officials are not mentioning any recommendations to evacuate. They are just asking people to not travel unless necessary. They also seem to be having a hard time getting all the homeless people to move their encampments out of the washes and underpasses.
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It’s harvest time for much of the inland ag land, so you can expect even higher prices to trickle up and out for produce, so higher prices will likely result. For much of CA expect power outages and since most municipal water comes from electric pumps, well, there’s that to contend with (listening, Newsom?)
We can expect flooding, and mudslides as a result of burn scars. ,Wind and rain will be issues and Las Vegas really worries me----there is a huge homeless population that lives underground in the storm drainage system in that town:
The Las Vegas tunnels: Who lives in the underground city in Vegas? - Deseret News
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Free House Keeping?
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A Cat 4 making its landfall is a serious situation. But real disaster is long term mismanagement of resources as well as lack of aptitude for emergency management by the Californicratic administration. As evidenced by recent wildfires. Can this turn into another Katrina, even worse? Easily.
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