Hurricane Otis sparks flooding in Mexico

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Hurricane Otis sparks

flooding in Mexico

Saturday, October 1, 2005; Posted: 10:25 p.m. EDT (02:25 GMT)

 

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico (AP) --

Hurricane Otis's outer bands lashed the coast of western Mexico on Saturday as the storm crawled toward the

Baja California peninsula, forcing hundreds of families to evacuate their homes

and flooding roads in this resort city.

The Category 1 hurricane weakened but still had winds up to

85 mph as it headed northward off the coast of Baja. Forecasters expected

Otis to skirt past Cabo San Lucas, and move ashore along a sparsely populated

stretch of desert far north of here as early as Sunday evening, according to

the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

Narciso Agundez, governor of Baja California Sur state, ordered

emergency personnel to the community of Comondu, as well as tourist-friendly Lorteo

and Mulege, closer to where the center of Otis was likely to hit land. He asked

soldiers to help evacuate the islands of Magdalena and Margarita, off the

coast of Comondu.

Periods of strong winds and heavy rains were mixed with

mostly sunny skies over Cabo San Lucas, giving way to light cloud cover at

night. Clam prevailed with the knowledge that Otis stayed out to sea until it

was past this area.

Mayor Luis Armando Diaz led voluntary evacuations from the

city's poor outskirts, where many homes are little more than wood and metal

shacks.

About 700 families had evacuated to shelters in Cabo San

Lucas and that more than 200 families evacuated in San Jose del Cabo, a nearby

tourist destination to the northeast. There were also small-scale evacuations

in Miraflores and Santiago, slightly further north.

But many of those in shelters were expected to return to

their homes soon, as the widespread flooding they were bracing for never came.

Mexico declared a state of

emergency to help cope with heavy rains in five communities, including Cabo San

Lucas

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/10/01/hurricane.otis.ap/index.html

 

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