La Paz Mexico Travels: Hurricane Jimena approaching Baja California peninsula, holiday makers

Sabado, Agosto 15, 2015

Hurricane Jimena approaching Baja California peninsula, holiday makers

SHOTLIST
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1. Various of holiday makers on beaches
2. Mother holding baby
3. Various of holiday makers on beach
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jim Patterson, US tourist:
“This building we’re staying at the Las Cascadas, it looks like it’s pretty, you know, it’s pretty solid, not a lot of loose things to blow around, everything is cement and concrete.”
5. Wide beach goers
6. Wide of boat full of tourists moving across the water
7. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Brenda Munoz, Cabo San Lucas resident:
“The one I remember that hit really hard was Juliette, which even, I mean, it was a few years ago, but it took down our house and everything.”
8. Swimmers
9. Tourists on beach
10. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Oscar Nunez, mayor of Los Cabos municipality:
“We’re monitoring the situation, and we will be keeping an eye on things and being very vigilant, and we’ll make a decision on whether to use force (to evacuate homes) to guarantee people’s safety.”
11. Various of beach
STORYLINE:
As Hurricane Jimena grew stronger on Monday and roared toward Mexico’s resort-studded Baja California peninsula, residents stocked up on food and emergency workers built shelters for families living in its projected path.
Mexico issued a hurricane watch for the southern portion of Baja.
Jimena, a dangerous Category 4 storm, could rake southern Baja California by Tuesday evening, forecasters said.
At least 10,000 families will be evacuated from potential flood zones, said the local director of Civil Protection. He said 60 shelters would be set up.
But in the resort of Cabo San Lucas, tourists happily enjoyed themselves on the beach and appeared unconcerned at the approaching storm.
Cabo San Lucas resident Brenda Munoz, who lost her home when Hurricane Juliette struck Baja in 2001, was taking no chances and was stocking up on food this time.
“The one I remember that hit really hard was Juliette, which even, I mean, it was a few years ago, but it took down our house and everything,” Munoz said.
But with the weather still mild on Sunday, Jim Patterson, a tourist from Big Bear Lake, California, could not muster up much concern.
“This building we’re staying at the Las Cascadas, it looks like it’s pretty, you know, it’s pretty solid, not a lot of loose things to blow around, everything is cement and concrete,” he said.
Farther south, Jimena kicked up surf along Mexico’s mainland western coast and generated strong winds that bent
and uprooted trees in the resort town of Zihuatanejo.
Early Monday, Jimena had maximum sustained winds near 145 mph (230 kph) and was moving northwest near 8 mph (13 kph).
It was centred about 395 miles (635 kilometres) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas and 245 miles (395
kilometres) southwest of Cabo Corrientes, a coastal town in the western state of Jalisco.