Hurricane ‘Lidia’It has already fallen to category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson scale after making landfall off the coast of Jalisco (western Mexico), this occurred on Tuesday rivers overflowing, houses being flooded and heavy rains, as well as one person dying. on the state’s southern and northern coasts.
Jalisco State Civil Protection and Fire Department announced in a statement that the eye of the hurricane was located approximately 50 kilometers from Puerto Vallarta and 105 kilometers from Cabo Corrientes, and the wind intensity was reduced to 165 kilometers. as the clock continues to move towards the east-northeast.
Meanwhile, the Nayarit state government reported on social networks that a man had died after strong winds. He knocked down a tree that fell on his car While driving on the Punta Mita highway in Bahía de Banderas. Some of his friend’s injuries were treated by the emergency service.
In this state, 376 people are taking shelter in 25 shelters, as well as fallen trees and landslides on the roads of the municipalities of Bahía de Banderas and Compostela. High winds and heavy rain hinder rapid progress.”
In the municipality of Autlán de Navarro on the south coast of Jalisco, the Coajinque River and the “El Ccngrejo”, “El Salado” and “El Cristiano” streams reportedly overflowed, causing the flooding of many homes and buildings. . Authorities also reported that access to the Ahuacapán delegation was blocked and that the road connecting to the municipality of El Grullo was flooded, making navigation impossible.
The mayor of Autlán, Gustavo Robles Martínez, posted on social networks that the municipal civil protection unit had received numerous reports of water leaks in residences and that they were working on a “forced march” because they were in a “complex situation” face to face. from damage. Considering this, He asked citizens to take shelter “in the upper floors of their homes” reported that one of the churches was put into service as an emergency shelter for people at risk.
The State Civil Protection Unit and Jalisco Firefighters reported that so far it has not been possible to determine material or human impacts due to “poor communications on the coast and in the mountains” and electrical power outages in some areas.
The hurricane made landfall this Tuesday as a Category 4 category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale “at approximately 17:50 (23:50 GMT)” near Cabo Corrientes on the north coast of Jalisco and will move northward over land. The National Weather Service (SMN) reported that the hurricane recorded maximum sustained winds of 220 kilometers per hour (km/h) and gusts of 260 km/h after entering Mexican territory in the east-northeast of the country. and moving in an east-northeast direction at 26 km/h.
National Civil Protection Coordination was determined Red alert For 22 municipalities in Jalisco and 11 municipalities in the state of Nayarit before the hurricane arrived. The Government of Jalisco set up 23 temporary shelters along the coast of the state and deployed more than 1,300 civil protection elements from three levels of government to coordinate preventive and rescue actions. He also ordered the postponement of classes in schools at basic, secondary and higher levels this Wednesday in 23 municipalities of the party affected by the meteorological event.
Tonight, officials from the Mexican National Emergency Committee (CNE), National Defense (Sedena), Navy (Semar), Infrastructure, Communications and Transport (SICT), National Guard (GN) and National Water Commissions (Conagua) and Federal Electricity ( CFE), Jalisco, Nayarit, Sonora, Baja California Sur, and Guerrero have emergency action protocols in place, with up to 32,293 agents deployed along the entire coast from Colima to Sinaloa.