An AP article on usatoday.com said about 10,000 citizens were still living away from their homes after Manuel displaced whole neighborhoods and buried one village under a landslide. Some mountain villages were still without electricity and phone service.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/10/21/hurricane-raymond-mexico/3142927/
According to the Washington Post, Manuel caused flooding and mudslides that killed 169 people and caused $4.2 billion in damages. Schools in coastline communities in affected areas remained closed.“According to EM-DAT, the International Disaster Database, this was the second most expensive weather-related disaster in Mexican history, behind the $6 billion in damage (2013 dollars) wrought by Hurricane Wilma in October 2005,” said Jeff Masters of Weather Underground.
Schools in coastline communities in affected areas remained closed, and Guerrero Gov. Angel Aguirre urged people to stay off roads because of potentially dangerous rains, according to AP reporter Jose Antonio Rivera. Some neighborhoods and homes that had been hit by Manuel had little time to recover before the arrival of Raymond.
The Category 3 Hurricane Raymond that was threatening the pacific coast of Mexico on Monday has weakened to a Category 1 storm Tuesday. Heavy rains and mudslides still threaten the country that was devastated by record flooding from Tropical Storm Manuel last month.“There will be heavy rain for the next 72 hours along the Pacific coast – very heavy rain, torrential rain,” said David Korenfeld, head of Mexico's National Water Commission.
CNN.com said Tuesday that a warning was posted for about 140
miles of coastline from the city of Lazaro Cardenas to Tecpan de Galeana. The
warning means winds of 74 mph or higher are expected in the next 36 hours, and
he storm could produce “significant coastal flooding” and “large destructive
waves,” the hurricane center said.
A YouTube video provided by NASA shows a satellite view of
Raymond hitting the southwestern coast of Mexico.
By the time Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana in August of
2005, it had gone from a Category 5 storm with 175 mph winds to a Category 3
storm with estimated winds of 125 mph to the east of the center on the
Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale. http://www.gohsep.la.gov/hurricanerelated/HURRICANECATEGORIES.htm
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