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The Strongest Hurricane Ever Recorded Is Heading for Mexico
Brian K Sullivan Kelly Gilblom
The
strongest hurricane ever measured in the Western Hemisphere is hours
from striking near Mexico’s biggest port and a popular holiday resort,
threatening catastrophic damage to property and posing danger to the
lives of anyone caught in its path.
Hurricane Patricia is forecast
to go ashore between Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo on Friday with
winds as high as 200 miles (323 kilometers) per hour, or Category 5
major storm strength, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Residents of Boca de Pascuales are evacuated
Photographer: Hector Guerrero/AFP/Getty Images
The
“extremely dangerous” Patricia will hit Mexico with life-threatening
mudslides and flash floods and may reach into Texas with flooding rain
as a record-setting year for tropical systems continues, according to
the National Weather Service.
“With this type of wind the damage
is catastrophic; there are very few structures that withstand this”
strength of hurricane, Dennis Feltgen, a meteorologist and spokesman for
the National Hurricane Center, said Friday by phone from Miami. “The
trees are long gone, we’re talking buildings ripped off foundations.”
Patricia
is bearing down on a part of Mexico that is home to Pacific beach
resort Puerto Vallarta and Manzanillo, the nation’s busiest container
port. Manzanillo also has a liquefied natural gas terminal and a rail
line operated by Ferromex, a railroad owned by Grupo Mexico SAB and
Union Pacific Corp. Guadalajara, Mexico’s second-biggest metropolitan
area, is about 125 miles from the coast.
At 2 p.m. East Coast
time, the system was about 85 miles (138 kilometers) southwest of
Manzanillo and moving north at 12 mph. The international airports in
Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Manzanillo and Colima were closed yesterday,
Mexican civil protection official Jose Maria Tapia said during a press
conference.
Patricia seen by U.S. satellite on October 23, 2015.
