The first hurricane ever to hit Yemen in recorded history arrived early Tuesday morning when Tropical Cyclone Chapala hit the city of Mukallah, bringing with it unprecedented flooding in an area already suffering from a war-related humanitarian crisis.The storm may have already dumped a decades' worth of rainfall in some parts of this arid nation.As the rare and intense storm moved closer to the mainland the day before, it killed one person and injured nine on the remote Yemeni island of Socotra.
