Season is almost over and only the West Coast was hit this year.
"Stronger Hurricane Odile aims at Mexico’s Baja" Associated Press September 15, 2014
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico — Hurricane Odile grew into a massive Category 4 storm and took aim at the resort area of Los Cabos on Sunday, prompting authorities to evacuate vulnerable coastal areas and prepare shelters for up to 30,000 people.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said Odile was on a track to pass close to or directly over the southern end of the Baja California Peninsula late Sunday and into Monday.
Odile’s maximum sustained winds increased to 135 miles per hour, and its center was about 185 miles south-southeast of the southern tip of Baja California. Odile was moving to the northwest at 15 miles per hour. In Los Cabos, skies clouded over as gusty winds whipped palm trees and waves pounded the rocky coastline. Fluttering black flags signaled that beaches were closed due to high surf.
Hotel officials were keeping guests updated about the storm’s approach, and distributing movies and board games in anticipation of everyone having to hunker down later in the day. A hurricane warning was in effect for Baja California Sur from Punta Abreojos to La Paz. High winds, dangerous surf, and heavy rains were possible for Baja and parts of the mainland.
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"Hurricane Odile slams Mexico’s Baja California" Associated Press September 16, 2014
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Hurricane Odile hammered Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, damaging homes and tearing away the facades of luxury resorts, shattering car and hotel windows, and leaving lobbies swamped and full of debris on Monday.
The storm, which made landfall near Cabo San Lucas the previous night as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, toppled trees, power poles, and road signs along the main highway, which at one point was swamped by flood waters.
Room windows at the Hotel Westin were blown out, mud and rock blocked the entrance to the Club Regina, and workers said the Hilton was seriously damaged.
By morning the rains had stopped and winds had died down, and residents and tourists emerged from shelters to assess the damage.
There were no immediate reports of deaths, but the newspaper Tribuna de los Cabos reported people being injured by flying glass and a fire at the Cascadas resort on Medano Beach. No details about the blaze were available.
All along the highway, homes and businesses were heavily damaged, many reduced to shells with only the core structure intact. The walls of an OfficeMax collapsed into the parking lot. A convenience store was ripped apart, with the contents of its shelves dumped to the ground.
‘‘From what we have seen around here, everything is pretty much destroyed,’’ said Alejandro Tealdi, a 32-year-old resident of Cabo San Lucas. His home was damaged and suffered some flooding, but nobody was hurt.
Odile had weakened but was still a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 100 miles per hour.
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Where it went next I know not.
