Hurricane Roslyn, downgraded to a tropical storm, kills at least two in Mexico

Published on: 24/10/2022 – 05:00 At least two people have lost their lives in Mexico following the passage of Hurricane Roslyn, which also caused property damage and flooding. Tropical Storm Roslyn, which made landfall in northwestern Mexico on Sunday (October 23rd) as a Category 3 hurricane, killed at least two people and damaged homes and destroyed roads, before likely disappearing in the evening. “We found that one person died in Rosamorada,” Jorge Benito Rodriguez, the Nayarit state security secretary, told state television. The Citizen Protection and Fire Department later said an 80-year-old man died when a heavy structure collapsed in his home on the island of Mexcaltitán. At midnight GMT on Monday, Roslyn was at 95 km from the city of Torreon, in the north of the country, and presented sustained winds of 55 km / h. It is expected to dissipate in the evening, according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in the United States. on alert. A hurricane with a category greater than 3 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (out of 5) is considered a “major” potentially catastrophic phenomenon. It was the first hurricane to reach this strength in the Pacific this season. fishing and agriculture. Material damage, some flooding, falling trees and landslides were reported by the civil protection authorities of the states of Nayarit and Jalisco (west), the most affected by the hurricane. The floods “do not represent a risk as such”, indicated the director of civil protection of Nayarit, Pedro Núñez. The seaside resort of Puerto Vallarta (State of Jalisco), which has some 220,000 inhabitants and is one of the largest towns in the hurricane-affected area, has begun surveying the damage. EvacuationsIn Sayulita, Nayarit, some areas were affected by a flooding creek, which buried homes.Read More of a thousand inhabitants of the areas to ri sque left their homes for shelters or loved ones, while commercial activities were suspended in the late afternoon.Tropical cyclones hit Mexico each year on its Pacific and Atlantic coasts, usually between May and November. At the end of May, Agatha, the first storm of the season in the Pacific, hit the coasts of the state of Oaxaca (south), where heavy rains in mountain towns killed 11 people. In October 1997, Paulina, ranked 4, devastated the southern Mexican Pacific coast, killing more than 200 people. With AFP