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Major flooding in California’s Death Valley on Friday stranded approximately 1,000 people, buried cars and shut down all roads into and out of the famously parched national park.
No injuries were reported, according to the National Park Service, but around 60 cars were bogged down under several feet of debris.
“Unprecedented amounts of rainfall caused substantial flooding,” the National Park Service said in a statement, adding that “there are approximately 500 visitors and 500 staff currently unable to exit the park,” which is in Eastern California’s Mojave Desert.
The floodwaters tore up sections of paved roads and pushed dumpster containers into parked cars, causing the vehicles to collide.
The rain also flooded offices and hotels, the park said.
