The following reports were compiled from emails, ham radio messages, YouTube video, websites, web blogs, and Spanish-speaking TV newscasts.
After flying over Puerto Lopez Mateos, members of the Baja Bush Pilots, a private organization, reported that half the cannery buildings were destroyed, all wood homes were flattened, and a quarter of the population is homeless. Earlier reports said 750 homes were lost in that town, and that the desalination plant at the cannery was destroyed, so the municipality had no water. Earlier reports said the two isolated fishing villages on the barrier island of Isla Magdalena no longer existed.
A Telemundo news team traveling with the Baja California governor reported that the last message from Puerto San Carlos on Magdalena Bay came from a police officer just prior to the hurricane’s landfall, saying the town of San Carlos could not be evacuated because the isthmus roadway had been breached by flood waters.
Following Jimena’s path, Punta Abreojos village and Laguna San Ignacio (whale park) took a direct hit by Jimena’s eye wall as a Category 2 hurricane. Shari Bondi in the Pacific coast fishing village of Bahia Asuncion reported that her village fared well but that Abreojos village and San Ignacio Lagoon were badly damaged.
Up on Baja California’s central mesa, in the large agricultural towns of Ciudad Constitución and Villa Insurgentes, 70% to 90% of the buildings (homes, businesses) were reported as destroyed or not habitable. The mayor’s office in Constitución requested medical supplies, food and water.

The airport at Constitucion has been repaired and opened on Monday, September 7, so emergency supplies are being air lifted there, coordinated by the Baja California Civil Protection agency, the Baja Bush Pilots, and the Flying Samaritans. Emergency supplies will be distributed to outlying villages as roads are repaired.
Puerto Escondido reported no injuries, all the marina moorings held, a few API moorings dragged. A few attended boats chafed through their own mooring lines or dragged anchor but were assisted by the marina staff and fellow yatistas. A few unattended boats did drag ashore, mostly into mangroves. Loreto airport was damaged and closed, but officials said power may be restored to Loreto on Saturday, September 12. The highway south toward Constitución was washed out, many bridges gone, but recent reports say it is passable to La Paz.
Mulege: a 75-year old man drowned when floodwaters filled his home. Mulege residents are reporting worse damage than from Hurricane John in 2006. The highway bridge was 6 feet under raging torrents when the flash flood crested, but that bridge is still standing. All Mulege homes along the river were flooded, about half were destroyed. The fire station had 2 feet of water inside, and throughout the town many roofs are gone and home walls collapsed. All Mulege grocery stores were flooded, and locals are asking for emergency food & water. Mulege shelters are overwhelmed by homeless Jimena victims, so people are sleeping in cars.

All homes on Punta Chivato were flooded and damaged, some destroyed. A pilot living at Punta Chivato reported that one unpaved airstrip has been repaired for emergency landings.
Santa Rosalia’s downtown area was devastated by flash floods (water, mud and debris) that scoured the central canyon, washing cars and drowned livestock out to sea. The older Marina Santa Rosalia was destroyed except for two slips. The Singlar marina reported to be OK, no boats or docks sunk. Yatistas said it rained heavily for 48 hours straight. One person is reported missing from a fishing village north of Santa Rosalia, according to the Baja California Civil Protection agency.
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