A weakened Hurricane "Norbert" moved Sunday morning parallel to the peninsula of Baja California after punishing fishing villages and resorts, injuring more than a thousand homes and forcing hundreds to flee to higher ground.
The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday morning that the vortex "Norbert" was centered about 265 kilometers (165 miles) northwest of Punta Eugenia and headed west-northwest at 15 kph (9 mph).
"Norbert" got to reach Category 3, but the Sunday morning had weakened to Category 1 with winds up to 120 kilometers per hour (75 miles) away.
Although stays away from earth, its cloud bands passed over the coast, leaving drenched fishing villages and resorts.
The high surf and waves exceeded a retaining wall and flooded the town of Puerto San Carlos, said Venustiano Perez, mayor of Comondú, covering the village, about 500 kilometers (300 miles) north of the tip of the peninsula.
Perez said that 250 thousand houses were damaged and some two thousand 500 people affected were evacuated to a shelter.
Governor Marcos Covarrubias urged people living in vulnerable areas to evacuate and asked travelers to avoid going out roads. Most government services it would be closed or restricted, he said.
Schools in Los Cabos and La Paz did not operate on Friday.
By Saturday morning and there were two thousand evacuees in total in the towns of Los Cabos, La Paz (both in the south of the peninsula) and Comondú, director of Civil Protection of the State of Baja California Sur, Carlos Rincon reported.
In Los Cabos, the storm toppled trees and caused power outages in parts of the tourist area. Firefighters rescued several people from vehicles stranded on flooded streets, said Wenceslao Pettit, director of Public Safety in Cabo San Lucas.
The ports of the popular tourist area remained closed to navigation and police was sent to evacuees neighborhoods to prevent looting, said Pettit.
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