Hurricane Erick came ashore as a Category 3 storm Thursday morning hitting Mexico’s Pacific coast between the resort towns of Acapulco and Puerto Escondido. The BBC’s partner, CBS News, reported that officials confirmed at least two deaths as a result of the storm. Video shows communities in the affected areas dealing with floodwater and a … Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Authorities in southern Mexico were still assessing damage and watching rising rivers as rain from the remnants of Hurricane Erick doused the region. Torrential rains over steep coastal mountains and the landslides and flooding they could generate became ongoing concern for officials after Erick dissipated following a landfall early Thursday on a … Read more
Powerful Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said. The hurricane’s centre was located about 30 kilometres east of Punta Maldonado. Its maximum sustained winds were clocked at 205 km/h. It was moving northwest at 15 km/h, the hurricane centre said. The storm was downgraded slightly … Read more
Powerful Hurricane Erick made landfall in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca early Thursday, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. The hurricane’s centre was located about 20 miles (30 kilometres) east of Punta Maldonado. Its maximum sustained winds were clocked at 125 mph (205 kph). It was moving northwest at 9 mph (15 kph), the hurricane centre said. The … Read more
Hurricane Erick has strengthened into an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 storm, as it heads towards Mexico’s Pacific coast, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) says. Maximum sustained winds in the storm were near 220km/h (140mph) early on Thursday local time. Forecasters expect it to make landfall in the coming hours with the states of Oaxaca … Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Hurricane Erick has intensified into a Category 3 major hurricane threatening approaching southern Mexico’s coast with destructive winds and heavy rain, the U.S. Hurricane Center said Wednesday evening. The Miami-based center warned Erick has maximum sustained winds of 120 mph after hours of rapid intensification, strengthening from a Category 1 storm earlier … Read more
MIAMI — A hurricane watch was in effect Tuesday for southern Mexico as a tropical depression in the eastern Pacific gained strength. The depression was likely to become a tropical storm later Tuesday and a hurricane Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It had maximum sustained winds of 35 mph and was … Read more
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the hurricane season and that states would receive less federal aid to respond to natural disasters. Trump also said he planned to distribute disaster relief funds directly from the president’s office. “We’re going to do it much … Read more