| Hurricane Lane and its eye have just come ashore in | | | | flash floods and mud and land slides. Many more died |
| rural Mexico. According to NOAH and the National | | | | from the thousands of venomous scorpions and |
| Weather Service, it is still a destructive category 3 | | | | snakes that were unearthed and misplaced by these |
| hurricane with sustained winds of over 125 mph. | | | | mud and land slides. This could very likely happen here |
| Warnings of 6 to 12 foot storm surges and possible | | | | with Hurricane Lane as it is powerful enough to |
| flash floods and mudslides have been made as this | | | | unleash similar mud and land slides and flooding. |
| could be a very devastating hurricane. | | | | This could also be greatly impacted, just like New |
| Hurricane Lane has already become deadly as it | | | | Orleans, in that being rural many people are trapped |
| caused its first death with a child crushed by a | | | | and cannot get out in time. Emergency workers and |
| mudslide and the resulting collapse of the house they | | | | help may not be adequate enough and will have a |
| were in. | | | | hard time reaching hurricane victims. Also the threat of |
| On Saturday morning Hurricane Lane changed course | | | | deadly poisonous scorpions and snakes aggressive |
| and headed directly inland on the Pacific coast of | | | | from displacement will conjure much fear in the minds |
| Mexico. Earlier trajectories and storm tracking plotted | | | | of emergency personnel from the memories of |
| the area of Acupulco and the tip of the Baja peninsula | | | | thousands of lives lost to these venomous reptiles |
| similar to Hurricane John from just 2 weeks ago. | | | | during the great hurricane of Mexico in 1959. |
| Regardless, Hurricane Lane is just as strong if not | | | | In preparation many people have been evacuated, but |
| stronger and is a very sizeable hurricane with | | | | many are left stranded and unable to leave. As the |
| damaging winds of 125 or more mph. | | | | eye of Hurricane Lane moves farther inward we will |
| The most damage may not come from the actual | | | | get more of an idea of the damage and destruction. |
| hurricane itself, but the storm surge, flooding, and | | | | The hurricane prediction center and the National |
| resultant mudslides as the hurricane goes inland and | | | | Weather Service can only predict 3 to 5 days ahead |
| over hilly and mountainous terrain. The biggest and | | | | of a storm, but all indications show the hurricane |
| most devastating hurricane of all time in the east | | | | moving inward into more hilly and mountainous regions. |
| pacific was the Mexico Hurricane of 1959. It came | | | | This could be a repeat of the great hurricane of 1959 |
| ashore as a category 5 hurricane with over 160 mph | | | | and a terrible disaster for the people on the pacific |
| sustained winds. Over 1000 people died due to the | | | | coast of Mexico and our hearts go out to them. |