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Hurricane Ignacio in the Pacific coast is photographed over Mexico's Baja California peninsula at 12:45 p.m., EDT on August 25, 2003. REUTERS/NOAA
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Flood Threat as Ignacio Moves Up Coast
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuhf/news.newsmain?action=...
(2003-08-26)
By Manuel Carrillo
LOS CABOS, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Ignacio was downgraded to a tropical storm overnight but was still dumping rain on Mexico's arid Baja
California peninsula on Tuesday, raising the threat of mudslides as rivers overflowed.
In the state capital, La Paz, on the eastern coast of the peninsula, about 2,000 evacuated residents remained in shelters set up in schools, said Juan
Ochoa of Mexico's civil protection agency for the state of Baja California Sur.
"Things have calmed down. There are cables, pylons and trees down in the streets, but nothing more," said Rodolfo Peralta, receptionist at the Hotel
La Perla in La Paz. "You can't swim yet, but we expect everything to be normal in three or four days," he added.
In Los Cabos, residents evacuated to shelters began to return home, but the mayor's office said drinking water would be rationed for the next few days
as the rains had affected five of the eight wells supplying drinking water to the golf and fishing resort.
On Tuesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported the storm was inching northwest at a snail's pace, packing maximum sustained winds of 50 mph.
The center said heavy rain that could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides was still likely in parts of the peninsula but that
storm-surge flooding and large waves along the coast would gradually subside.
A Reuters reporter said La Paz had light rain and wind and the sea was muddy brown with silt from rivers.
Ignacio sprang from nowhere over the weekend. In less than 24 hours it developed from a weak tropical storm to a hurricane and headed for the Sea of
Cortes, between the Baja California peninsula and the Mexican mainland.
After reaching its peak as a Category 2 storm on the Saffir-Simpson scale of 1 to 5 on Sunday with sustained winds of 105 mph, it was downgraded to a
tropical storm early on Tuesday. A tropical storm has maximum sustained winds of 39 to 73 mph.
"We still have tourists here, they didn't leave because of (the) hurricane," said Maria Jesus Arroyo at the Hotel la Posada de Engelbert outside La
Paz, a fishing city of 170,000 people popular with yachting enthusiasts.
In the past two days, the main highways linking Los Cabos at the western tip of the peninsula to La Paz were closed after they were turned into rivers
by the deluge.
Television images showed cars and pickup trucks stranded in flooded rural coastal roads, with locals, knee-deep in water, using machetes to hack
branches off fallen trees.
Ochoa said a passage had been cleared to enable limited traffic between La Paz and Los Cabos.
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Judy Masuda, left, her son Erik, center, and his girlfriend Meghan Doherty, all from Sacramento, Cali. wait for hours at the airport in La Paz, Mexico
Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2003 for a flight back to the United States after Hurricane Ignacio forced airports to close the previous day. With tourists
streaming out of the peninsula and flights full, some tourists were stranded here for as long as two days. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
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People try to remove a truck caught on a flooded highway in Los Cabos, in the Mexican state of Baja, California, August 26, 2003. REUTERS/Daniel
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Tourists cross a flooded highway in Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja California, August 26, 2003. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar
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People cross a flooded highway in Los Cabos in the Mexican state of Baja California, August 26, 2003. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar
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Mood: My friends..it's good.
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Thanks for the great pics, I am sooooooo jelous.
"Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked of such a thing."
Dwight David Eisenhower
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Thats hardcore, half the road is gone...
Any news on the latest weather? I'd like to know about SAN FELIPE, anyone out there? Is it a GO for us for the labor day weekend?. Thanks
Sorry to ask again... I had a topic about San Felipe somewhere... but I can't find it, lol.
~Marissa~
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Hurricane vanishes ? but leaves flooding behind
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/mexico/20030828-0929-mexi...
ASSOCIATED PRESS
9:29 a.m. August 28, 2003
MEXICO CITY ? President Vicente Fox on Thursday toured sites of damage caused by Hurricane Ignacio in the Baja California Peninsula, a day after the
storm set off a final burst of flooding and then dissipated.
As Fox met with officials in the Baja California Sur state capital, La Paz, workers 100 miles to the northwest in Ciudad Constitucion were cleaning up
after the heaviest rainfall on record.
The state spokesman's office reported that some 3,000 people were forced to go to shelters on Wednesday because roughly 20 inches of rain in normally
arid Ciudad Constitucion, a farm town near the west coast of the central Baja peninsula.
Gov. Leonel Cota told the Televisa television network on Thursday that 7,500 people in the state had used emergency shelters during the storm and that
one person, a youth who tried to cross a flooded ravine, was missing.
Ignacio reached its peak force with sustained winds of 90 mph and it caused heavy rainfall in Los Cabos, La Paz and Loreto.
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River crossings
Was he the one driving that truck by any chance ?
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