geck01
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drowning in Cabo today?
Has anyone heard of a drowning in Cabo San Lucas today. I'm assuming it was on the Pacific side. The man was taken off the shore by a big wave. Sister
is supposed to be in the Hospital. I don't know if she was with him or not. Our relatives in the states know this man and can't get any info. Who
could they call down here?
Thanks, any help would be appreciated
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Geck01 If it was on the Pacific side, it might have been a guest of the resort Pueblo Bonito Sunset Beach. Call & ask for the Coencier (????)
Otherwise there is a Nomad that has the charter boats there. Perhaps someone can u2u them for info.
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News on line stated a hotel guest was washed to sea by a giant wave and presumed perished. Two women, wife and sister were resqued. I'll try and
find the news story as it mentioned the hotel and spokesman.
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hotel
It mentioned the Solmar in the article I read.
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See this story: Weakened Hurricane Paul leaves one dead in Baja
http://www.insidebayarea.com/argus/news/ci_4546259
A Mexican fisherman was swept off some rocks out to sea, and an American from Moses Lake, WA. was swept out to sea by a big wave and is presumed dead.
Yes, it was apparently at the SolMar.
Very sad.
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Renton man missing, presumed dead in Mexico hurricane
http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/updates/story/6189199p-54...
October 25, 2006
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico — Hurricane Paul weakened to a tropical storm, easing the threat Wednesday to resort cities and surrounding villages at the
tip of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula.
But not before it claimed at least one life and possible another. The hurricane also is responsible for the presumed death of a Renton man who was
vacationing with this family in Cabo San Lucas.
Off the coast of Cabo San Lucas, officials were searching for the body of John Skoor, 65, who was swept away by the waves Monday night while he was
walking along the beach with his wife and sister.
Gilberto Guzman, manager of the SolMar Hotel, said “an enormous wave” swept Skoor and his sister out to sea. Hotel staff were able to save the sister.
Skoor is missing and presumed dead.
A 23-year-old Mexican fisherman died Monday after he slipped off rocks being battered by the rough sea in the coastal community of Todos Santos, north
of Los Cabos, said Baja California Sur civil defense director Jose Gajon.
Paul’s top winds fell to near 45 mph and the storm was expected to weaken further before slipping just south of the twin resorts of San Jose del Cabo
and Cabo San Lucas, known jointly as Los Cabos.
By early Thursday, Paul was forecast to hit mainland Mexico around the state of Sinaloa, unleashing rain that could cause dangerous flooding, the U.S.
National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Paul’s maximum sustained winds had reached 110 mph on Monday, making it a Category 2 hurricane. It was the third hurricane to threaten the Pacific
coast’s resort areas this season.
Early Wednesday the storm was 75 miles west-southwest of Cabo San Lucas and about 245 miles west-southwest of Mazatlan on the mainland. It was moving
northeast about 9 mph.
A tropical storm warning was in effect for the tip of Baja.
Known for their rugged beauty, San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas are popular with sports fishermen and celebrities and famous for world-class golf
courses and pristine beaches flanked by cactus-dotted deserts.
Streets were already flooded with ankle-deep water in Cabo San Lucas, where authorities closed schools and opened eight shelters Tuesday. Later police
drove through neighborhoods, calling on people to take refuge.
City government spokesman Jorge Castaneda said at least 1,000 residents were being evacuated, most from shantytowns in areas at high risk for
flooding.
Guadalupe Herrera preferred to stay in her wooden shack. “If we leave our house alone, we will be robbed,” she said.
Tourists were taking the wet weather in stride.
“I’m used to this kind of thing. I spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy so it doesn’t bother me,” said Keith Howard, 55, of British Colombia, who was
walking in cloudy San Jose del Cabo. “I don’t plan on going fishing though.”
Dave Snow, 47, and Shauna Grady, 39, of Boulder, Colo., walked the rain-soaked streets of San Jose del Cabo early Tuesday after Paul forced them to
postpone their stay in Cabo Pulmo, an exposed stretch of coast to the north that is popular among divers.
“If it had stayed at hurricane level, it would have been scarier,” Snow said. “It seems pretty mellow now.”
In Cabo San Lucas, hotel guests played board games in lobbies or read in their rooms.
“It looks as though the storm is dissipating and we’re not going to get much of anything at all,” said Sandra Scandiber, owner of the small Los
Milagros Hotel in Cabo San Lucas. “I don’t think today is going to be a beach day, but tomorrow just may be.”
Mexico’s Pacific coast was struck by two hurricanes last month. Hurricane John battered Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes,
while Hurricane Lane hit the resort town of Mazatlan, causing relatively minor damage.
Both Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons, which end Nov. 30, have been normal this year, Feltgen said, adding that the U.S. has been fortunate to
not be hit by any of the five hurricanes in 2006. The Atlantic had a record season last year with devastating storms, including Hurricane Katrina,
which slammed New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf coast.
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Renton man missing in Baja California
http://www.komotv.com/stories/46151.htm
October 25, 2006
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, MEXICO - On Tuesday, a squad of rescue workers from the Los Cabos municipal fire department scanned the waves at the beach where
John Skoor, 65, of Renton, Wash., a suburb of Seattle, was swept away by what witnesses described as "an enormous wave" while he was walking along the
beach with his wife and sister.
The strong waves were stirred up by Tropical Storm Paul
Gilberto Guzman, manager of the SolMar Hotel, said the wave swept Skoor and his sister out to sea late Monday. Hotel staff were able to save the
sister.
Guzman said Skoor had visited before, and was aware of the signs posted at the beach warning the public against swimming. "They were walking on the
dry sand, not even on the wet part. Then an enormous wave came," he said.
More than 1,000 residents of the twin resorts of Los Cabos were being evacuated to shelters ahead of the storm, which was weakening as it headed
toward the tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
The storm was expected to slip just south of Los Cabos on Wednesday before plunging into mainland Mexico around the state of Sinaloa early Thursday,
unleashing rain that could cause dangerous flooding. Victims of the storm included a Baja California fisherman who died after slipping off
sea-battered rocks and a Washington state man who was swept out to sea and feared drowned.
Paul had maximum sustained winds near 45 mph on Tuesday and was moving northeast at about 14 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Late Tuesday, police drove through slum neighborhoods calling on people to take refuge.
City government spokesman Jorge Castaneda said more than 1,000 residents of the twin towns of Los Cabos were being evacuated to temporary shelters,
with most of the evacuees from shantytowns in high-risk flood areas.
However, some preferred to stay in their wooden shacks to protect what possessions they had.
"If we leave our house alone, we will be robbed," said Guadalupe Herrera, a resident in a poor Cabos neighborhood.
Late Tuesday, Paul was 130 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas on southernmost Baja California, and about 300 miles southwest of Mazatlan on the
mainland. A tropical storm warning was in effect for the tip of Baja.
Forecasters warned that remnants of the storm could still dump up to 10 inches of rain in the mountains on Mexico's mainland.
A 23-year-old Mexican fisherman died Monday after he slipped off rocks pounded by the rough sea in Todos Santos, north of Los Cabos, according to Baja
California Sur state civil defense director Jose Gajon.
Paul, with winds that reached 110 mph on Monday, was the third hurricane to threaten this popular resort area this season.
San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas are popular with sports fishermen and celebrities and famous for its deep-sea fishing, golf courses and beaches
flanked by cactus-dotted deserts.
Tourists were taking the wet weather in stride.
"I'm used to this kind of thing. I spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy so it doesn't bother me," said Keith Howard, 55, from Saturna Island in Canada's
British Columbia, who was walking in cloudy San Jose del Cabo. "I don't plan on going fishing though."
Mexico was struck by two Pacific hurricanes last month. Hurricane John battered Baja California, killing five people and destroying 160 homes, while
Hurricane Lane hit the resort town of Mazatlan, causing relatively minor damage.
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thanks people. one of our neices was able to locate the sister in hospital here in Cabo. She will try to help with arrangements and other related
stuff to get these poor people the help they need. I really apprecaite all of your help.
Hope my next post is on a much happier note.
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Prayer service set tonight for Renton man washed out to sea
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/289913_skoor25ww.html?so...
By JOHN IWASAKI
A prayer service will be tonight for a 66-year-old Renton man presumed killed Monday when a rogue wave washed him out to sea while he vacationed in
Mexico.
John Skoor, a retired pastor and art instructor, and his wife, Susan, and his sister, Deborah Fenske, were struck by a huge wave on the beach of Cabo
San Lucas in Baja California.
Susan Skoor crawled to safety but Fenske nearly drowned after trying to rescue her brother.
"She saw waves hitting him. She reached out and grabbed him, got a hold of him," said Bob Skoor, John and Deborah's oldest brother. "She looked at him
and said, 'I don't think we're going to make it.' He said, 'I love you and we're going to a better place.' And he was gone."
Hurricane Paul, which has since been downgraded to a tropical storm status, had whipped up the surf along Baja California. Bob Skoor said his brother,
sister and sister-in-law were "apparently walking on what they thought was a safe place."
John Skoor attended Community in Christ Church in Rainier Valley from the late 1970s until 2001, serving as pastor for eight to 10 of those years.
He and his wife moved to Sacramento, Calif., after Susan Skoor, also a pastor, became administrator of the denomination's Central Pacific Region. She
later became head of the denomination's mission field in the western United States.
The couple returned to Washington last year and attended Community in Christ Church in Renton.
"He was just a phenomenal person. He was a very standup guy. There was nothing false about John," said Steve Pomeroy, pastor of the Renton church.
A prayer service will be at 7:30 p.m. today at the church, 701 Monroe Ave. N.E.
Skoor, an oil painter, taught in the Seniors Making Art program started by glass artist Dale Chihuly. He also taught as an adjunct art instructor for
Central Washington University.
He was born in Mount Vernon, one of four siblings, and had two daughters, Marie and Christie.
"He touched the rich and the famous," Bob Skoor said. "Mostly he touched ordinary people and made them feel like someone."
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Mr. Skoors drowning in Cabo
Thank you so much for your response. I'm sure it will help somewhere. We have forwarded it to people in the States.
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http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_4561517
Authorities in the Baja California resort of Los Cabos reported Friday they had found the body of John Skoor, 66, of suburban Seattle.
Skoor's body was found Thursday washed up on a beach several miles from where he disappeared while walking late Monday, Los Cabos spokesman Jorge
Castaneda said.
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