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tehag
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Loreto 9:am
Just checked NOAA update: John is downgraded to a Cat1. Track is still uncertain. Hurricane warning both coasts for 200 miles or so from storm center.
Still raining here, heavy then light then heavy. Lots of water on the ground. Davis and La Pinta are both running curb to curb.
[Edited on 9-2-2006 by tehag]
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Bruce R Leech
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I am really getting concerned that we have not herd anything from La Paz and south
[Edited on 9-2-2006 by Bruce R Leech]
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oldjack
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ROAD REPORT WANTED
Where or from whom can I get good information regarding road conditions from the airport to Los Barriles.... I would like to get to Buenas Aires and
see if I have anything left...
Anyone have an email for Gustavo Cota(mayor of Los Barriles)???????????
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Diver
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Just found this posted on the AP hotline about 30 mintes ago;
The hurricane knocked out electricity, downed trees and sent billboards flying Saturday in La Paz, a state capital of more than 150,000 people.
One man whose vehicle was swept away by a surge of water was found alive about three miles away, clinging to tree branches. He was in stable condition
at a local hospital, said Los Cabos government spokesman Jorge Castaneda.
Mexico extended hurricane warnings northward along the east of the peninsula to the community of Mulege and as far as Punta Abreojos on the west
coast. The storm was expected to gradually weaken while heading up the Gulf of California before crossing the narrow stretch of land and heading out
to sea.
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Bruce R Leech
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right now we are not Herring anything from that Arie. I would say don't plan on flying in for a while
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Al G
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| Quote: | Originally posted by oldjack
ROAD REPORT WANTED
Where or from whom can I get good information regarding road conditions from the airport to Los Barriles.... I would like to get to Buenas Aires and
see if I have anything left...
Anyone have an email for Gustavo Cota(mayor of Los Barriles)??????????? |
Amigo, This board may be your best bet as Nomads check in.
Some are out now looking around. Maybe one could go and check for you.
Albert G
Remember, if you haven\'t got a smile on your face and laughter in your heart, then you are just a sour old fart!....
The most precious thing we have is life, yet it has absolutely no trade-in value.
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Bob and Susan
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Bruce...what's mulege look like?
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BajaNews
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3-day forecasted track as of 8am Saturday:
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BajaNews
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Through 7:30am Saturday:
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Bruce R Leech
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light rain off and on light breeze gusting to 8kts moderate overcast.
at the moment all rodes from the highway in to Mulege are blocked by broken trucks
Mulege is closed for now by not storm related things.
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Carol
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Telmex Building Camera in La Paz is operating but doesn't show much, except for a lot of water and dreer.
http://www.vialidad.telmex.net/vialidad.php?url=/bcs/bcs.php
[Edited on 9-2-2006 by Carol]
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Bajabus
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Still no word here from anyone along the east cape road. In particular the area from Los Zacatitos to Miramar which is just past Cabo Pulmo. I bet
that road is just trashed. I wonder how the palo escopeta road held up.
"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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Bruce R Leech
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I sure thought we would here from someone down there before this 
raining hard in Mulege now.
our satellite link to the Bank card co. is still up lots of people getting money before the storm hits
[Edited on 9-2-2006 by Bruce R Leech]
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bill erhardt
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Loreto arroyo w/John on the way
Looking north on Manuel Pineda in Colonia Zaragosa across the arryo to Loreto at 11:00 a.m. this morning. I guess I won't go to the Pescador after
all.
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El Jefe
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It went right by our place on the east cape, but alas we are up in Alta California visiting family. So all we can do is wait for reports like everyone
else. No idea if our communication dishes on the roof survived. We had boarded up before we left for el norte. Que sera, sera.
Lou wrote that he was going to go out and inspect the area today, so we should hear from him later on. We will hope for the best.
Tom
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Jack Swords
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Larry...after the tour...
Larry, after you check out the city, please give us a report. Seems to be a shortage of info so far about La Paz (even on the ham radio nets).
Thanks.
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jettygirl
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this just posted on Fred Metcalfs board osted by Fred Metcalf on September 02,
2006 at 09:23:18:
I received a phone call from Richard Adc-ck in La Paz this morning. Richard reports that the electricity is still off, but there is phone service.
There were no deaths reported in La Paz, but heavy wind damage. Boats at anchor were blown about the harbor, but there are no reports of any major
losses at this time. In Richard's area there were many branches down, but no trees lost.
The eye passed over about 3 AM. Prior to that boaters were reporting wind readings of 100+ knots at which point the units went off scale. Richard's
feeling was that the winds might have been stronger than those of Marty a few years ago.
\" If your lucky enough to live by the sea .....
Your lucky enough\"
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BajaNews
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Hurricane John whips Mexico's Baja, power cut
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&sto...
Sep 2, 2006 01:34 PM ET
By Antonio Alcantar
LA PAZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane John crept up Mexico's Baja California peninsula on Saturday after blasting this tourist port city with wicked
winds and torrential rain that knocked out power but caused no deaths.
John flattened trees and electric power poles and sent advertising signs flying overnight in La Paz, a city of 200,000 people and the capital of Baja
California Sur state.
Ankle-deep flooding on several main roads cut off most streets around the city, and La Paz's airport remained closed.
"We are happy because we have a clean slate," said Jose Gajon, head of the civil protection agency in the state. "No one was killed."
After John felled up to 40 power poles, authorities cut off the electricity supply to the entire city to prevent downed wires from electrocuting
people, rescue workers said.
Before John made landfall on Friday evening as a Category 2 storm, around 4,000 people living in low-lying areas of La Paz were moved to shelters to
ride out the storm.
John weakened on Saturday to a Category 1 hurricane but was still packing winds of 80 mph (130 kph). Forecaster said they expected it to lose more
punch as it swirls over the peninsula.
Ester Aman, owner of the Angel Azul Hotel in La Paz, said she could feel her old hotel building shaking as John lashed the city. "It was like a strobe
light in the sky," she said of the constant lightning.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm was creeping northwest up the peninsula and was now located about 40 miles northwest of La Paz.
NO U.S. THREAT
John was forecast to churn up the east coast of the peninsula and then out into the Pacific Ocean, posing no threat to the United States.
Coastal storm surges of up to 3 feet (1 meter) above normal tide levels with battering waves were expected, and rain of 6 to 12 inches with isolated
deluges of 18 inches
were possible, the center said.
On the western tip of the peninsula in the posh seaside resort of Los Cabos, thousands of tourists and residents were forced to escape John's wrath.
Five-star hotels in Los Cabos asked vacationers to sit out most of Friday on mattresses in shelters set up in conference rooms.
Tourists went back to their hotel rooms on Saturday and were eager to restart their vacations after the storm brushed by, dousing the resort with
heavy rain and whipping up winds.
"I want to enjoy Cabos, go clubbing and go to the beach," said Lisa Perez, who was on a break from running her furniture store in California.
Local residents in Los Cabos were less fortunate. Rescue workers forced them to spend a second night in the shelters set up for people living in areas
facing the greatest threat from flooding and winds.
Several roads in Los Cabos were flooded on Saturday, and there was a possibility that those in shelters would have to spend a third night away from
their fragile homes.
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A truck sets up a barricade to prevent possible floods before the arrival of Hurricane John at Baja California, northwest Mexico. The hurricane has
left two people dead and another missing as it lashed northwestern Mexico's Baja California peninsula with gusting wind and driving rain.(AFP/Luis
Acosta)
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Mexican soldiers work to clear a road in Todos Santos, Mexico, Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, as rains from the remnants of Hurricane John continue to flood
area roads. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
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