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Southern California is waking up this morning from the first tropical storm to hit the region in nine decades, which brought heavy rainfall but not the fatalities officials had feared. Hilary, now a post-tropical cyclone, left some roads underwater and forced Los Angeles public schools — the nation's second-largest district — to close on Monday.
