Hurricane John lashes Mexico's Cabo San Lucas

From: Charleston Gazette | Date: September 2, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Hurricane John bore down on the southern tip of Baja California on Friday, forcing tourists to shelter in luxury hotel ballrooms and poor Mexicans to huddle in vacant schoolhouses.

With top sustained winds of 110 mph, the Category 2 hurricane was advancing on the western Mexican peninsula at 8 mph with the storm's center expected to move over land within hours, forecasters said.

Bands of steady rain swelled normally dry streambeds and ran down some streets, but with the eye still 85 miles away Friday afternoon, there was little wind and officials had no immediate ...

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