Hurricane Jimena unleashed flooding that killed at least one man and cut off hundreds of people in remote fishing villages on Mexico’s Baja California peninsula before mellowing into a drifting tropical storm Thursday. The 75-year-old victim drowned when his house flooded in the village of Mulege on the west coast of the peninsula, said Jose Gajon de la Toba, director of Civil Protection in Baja California Sur state. He said one other person was missing in the fishing village of San Buto.
Emergency workers evacuated thousands of people from shacks and low-lying areas before Jimena made landfall Wednesday, but some refused to leave their homes for fear their possessions would be stolen. Flooding stranded several villages along the eastern coast of the peninsula, said Joel Villegas, mayor of the Comondu municipality that encompasses the villages.
He said some people were in need of medical help, including a woman who had a miscarriage and another person with a broken arm. Villegas said he would ask the federal government for helicopters to rescue the injured. About 4,000 people in Comondu lost their homes in the storm, Villegas said. The federal government promised to help residents rebuild but urged patience. Read more here…
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