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marv sherrill
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Heading down tomorrow early Am - will post info after we review the entire affect of the storm in Bahia - Marv
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Archie
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Just came back from Bahia de los Angeles, went to deliver fuel and drinking water.
Theres some major road repairs as you get closer to town, the CFE crews working really hard got power to town today at 8 pm, everybody cheered when
the lights went on.
So far we havent heard of any casualty (other than the Boleo directives in Santa Rosalía), but theres a lot of damage to private property, and at
least 40 families lost everything they had.
The good news? We started a temporary employment program to clean up the mess and get this people some cash, because there will not be fishing or
tourism to provide food or income in the immediate future.
This image is on the beach on the back of mercado Isla, we are separating plastic, wood, metals and solid waste; we are also looking for dead animals
to dispose properly.
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4baja
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good news indeed. we are heading down saterday night. any gas at the two gas stations? I heard you pretty much have to bring every thing down
including gas.
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Santiago
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Anyone know if the town's wifi is up yet? Looking forward to your report, Steve, and hope your places are OK. I suspect I have standing water
inside.
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Paulina
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Thank you for the report!
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TecateRay
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Any news about Costa del Sol and Victoria?
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Bob53
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Great news. Thanks for the update.
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Pacifico
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Great reports and updates! Thanks everyone!
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Alm
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"Town" WiFi? I thought hotels and stores each had their own WiFi via satellite dish.
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Doug/Vamonos
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There is a town wifi that the ejido provides. Others may have star band or other service but the "town" has a shared wifi that often goes down and can
be very slow at times. It is also accessible to many of the camps outside of town. That is what Steve is referring to.
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mcfez
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Villa Bahia had only two rooms with very minor water. ...according to what Roger told me yesterday. There was something said here (or another site?)
that they lost two rooms....not true.
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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Paulina
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Dern got a fb message last night saying the town Internet was up.
P>*)))>{
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bkbend
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Video from town posted yesterday on Mia's website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9J0YEx9lWs
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burritomama
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Here's a site raising relief for BOLA:
https://www.causes.com/campaigns/83658-support-vsi-tropical-...
I also heard from Antonio Resendiz this morning that Meghann MacDonald is coordinating relief efforts as well. I will post more info as I get it.
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burritomama
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Newspaper coverage:
http://www.oem.com.mx/elsoldetijuana/notas/n3544283.htm
http://www.lacronica.com/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Noticias/21092...
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Alm
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Good video. They only went from town center to Pemex, and then back. Small red cross is where they stopped and went back.
Me thinks, future floods - in 50 years? 5 years? - will likely follow the same pattern. Big arroyo empties into the bay half a mile from air strip -
red arrows on the map. The longer arrow then follows the main road to town - that "river" in the video, East of the road. Half the water, more-less,
goes to town, because terrain descends there, and the town road is keeping water to the East. You can see the "river" current - it goes South. Man,
this "river" is bad.
Shorter arrow is where the rest of water goes in smaller streams, as terrain descends to sea. The contours of arroyo mouth (dry on the photo) is
where flood streams fan out to the East and South-East.
The area directly East of the airport they don't show on the video, I would "guess" there were multiple smaller streams there, rather than one
"river".
Plus, damage from leaky roof, doesn't matter where you are.
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David K
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Thanks for that great visual with GE image. It's like did they think it would never rain enough to flow the arroyo when they built the airport across
it??? I see a major flood control channel (ditch) from the mouth of the canyon to the bay, near the sand spit, needed.
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Alm
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David, you're reading my mind. Flood ditch was exactly what I thought. From arroyo to somewhere near sand spit. Only there is hardly any vacant land
there. And they would have to humbly ask the permission of estimado senor Slim - new owner of the airport, to cut near the South end of air strip.
Nah, these ideas sound like attempts to "improve" Mexico, many had tried, and failed 
Yes, there WILL be new and heavier Odiles, and Sandy's (remember NY flood?). Climate change doesn't necessarily bring a warmer weather, first of all
it brings instability, with weather becoming more violent.
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marv sherrill
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Another update: got to bola saturday afternoon - road out of town was a real mess - debris and washouts ,but they cleaned it all up yesterday! -
great government response - paying townspeople to clean beaches and town etc - however there is no relief other than food and water for those that
sustained a lot of damage - most are going at it alone and with friends - we are stuck at our houses with massive erosion damage - 3-4 foot drops from
garage to driveway. We did meet up with Luke Jobbins and young muscle has been a godsend. We surveyed the damage on quads from the military to
dagetts - every one had damage - Glendale college had their pull through garage inudated lost a truck and other stuff - but toppled trailers, mobile
homes, collasped buildings, water tanks common. Beaches are filled with debris like in the picture above - I will post pictures when possible. It is
very hot so work is slow for us old guys.
If church groups, off roaders or any body that can come down, clothes are needed and simply muscle to help individual households. On the surface,
most look ok, but all were hit hard. The electricity is up, water stations have frest water, but we had no problem giving away a truck load of
drinking water. We also brought big bags of dog food that was a help.
It is tragic, but the towns people are resilient. It will take a while to achieve normalicy - leaving thursday, but will be back asap.
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bigmike58
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Excellent!! I'm glad Luke made it!
It is amazing what can be done in just a few days.. We witnessed the instant rebuilding of Hwy 1 outside Guerrero Negro last week....
If that happened in California we would have had 3 years of kangaroo rat studies before a shovel full dirt could be put back from where it came.... I
love Mexico!!
Shouldn\'t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare check or Sec.8 housing?
........... I had to pass one to earn it for them!
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