{"id":6489,"date":"2023-08-20T17:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T12:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=6489"},"modified":"2023-08-20T17:05:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T12:05:39","slug":"major-hurricane-heads-toward-northwest-mexico-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/major-hurricane-heads-toward-northwest-mexico-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Major hurricane heads toward northwest Mexico, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mexico prepared Friday for a powerful Pacific hurricane that triggered a warning of &#8220;potentially catastrophic&#8221; flooding in a northwestern tourist region and the neighboring US state of California.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurricane Hilary threatened to bring strong winds, flash floods and &#8220;life-threatening&#8221; surf and rip current conditions, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve already had to live through similar experiences. We know what can happen to us. We must be prepared with food, canned goods and candles,&#8221; Marlen Hernandez, a 30-year-old restaurant worker, told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilary&#8217;s maximum sustained winds reached about 145 miles (230 kilometers) an hour before slowing slightly on Friday, according to the NHC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a Category Four hurricane &#8212; the second-most powerful on the Saffir-Simpson scale of one to five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flooding&#8221; was likely over much of Baja California and southern California this weekend and early next week, the NHC warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents and workers in Cabo San Lucas put up protective boarding, laid sandbags and stored furniture in preparation, as large waves crashed ashore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Navy personnel were seen patrolling the beach in Cabo San Lucas &#8212; a popular destination for both Mexican and foreign tourists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are a little scared and trying to stay positive,&#8221; Katrina Morgan, a tourist from the United States, said in the Mexican resort of Cabo San Lucas on the Baja California peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hilary was located about 285 miles southwest of Cabo San Lucas on the southern tip of Baja California, the NHC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;On the forecast track, the center of Hilary will move close to the west coast of the Baja California peninsula over the weekend and reach southern California by Sunday night,&#8221; it forecast.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexico prepared Friday for a powerful Pacific hurricane that triggered a warning of &#8220;potentially catastrophic&#8221; flooding in a northwestern tourist region and the neighboring US state of California. Hurricane Hilary threatened to bring strong winds, flash floods and &#8220;life-threatening&#8221; surf and rip current conditions, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. &#8220;We&#8217;ve already had to [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}