Faith leaders, with one eye on Hurricane Patricia and another on Bonn, have been anxious about both. Additionally, the storm wound up hitting a sparsely populated stretch of coast, away from Puerto Vallarta to the north and Manzanillo to the south. With its latent development, the promise of more hurricanes has become much more imminent, a threat to much of the west coast.
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When hurricane Patricia made a landfall on the Mexican coast on Friday, October 23, it was expected to leave a widespread and lasting damage. A broader area was under hurricane watch, tropical storm warning, or tropical storm watch.
The surge of rain brought to Texas by Hurricane Patricia was finally cleared on Sunday without reports of confirmed deaths or severe destruction.
DALLAS, Texas- In response to Hurricane Patricia, AT&T will not charge its customers additional fees for text messages or global calls to Mexico, where the Category 5 hurricane made landfall.
One factor was that ocean temperatures in the eastern Pacific off Mexico now are averaging about 87 degrees Fahrenheit, and that’s close to the warmest ever recorded.
Rising sea levels mean that when a hurricane hits land, the storm surge it produces can overwhelm coastal defences and cause flooding.
Though scientists warned about “large and destructive” waves, Patricia spun up so fast that there wasn’t sufficient time, Jeff Weber, a scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Research in the USA, tells the New York Times.
The storm also ended up killing people: Two women out camping were crushed by trees toppled by the high winds.
Damages to tropical fruits were still being assessed October. 26.
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In the US, heavy rains pounded Houston, where roadways and vehicles were under water and flash flooding derailed a freight train on Saturday near Corsicana, about 50 miles south of Dallas, according to Risk Management Solutions. Hurricanes, even very powerful storms, have occurred long before the impact of climate change was felt across the globe. “So we have pre-positioned supplies with a local partner in the area, and they’ll be distributing those supplies to families who have displaced by the storm”.
