CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Tropical Storm Julio bore down on the resort-dotted tip of the Baja California peninsula Sunday, prompting more than 2,500 families who live along river beds to evacuate.
Strong winds and sporadic rains buffeted the southern peninsula as police and emergency workers toured neighborhoods in Cabo San Lucas to evacuate families who live in homes of wood and corrugated roofs. They were taken to shelters around the town.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Julio was not expected to become a hurricane and could weaken before making landfall.
In Florida, meanwhile, rescue teams were evacuating people from 180 homes in a town about 25 miles north of Orlando because of flooding from what was Tropical Storm Fay.
Officials were using boats to evacuate people from DeBary, where some streets were under 4 feet of water.
Fay made landfall a record four times in Florida before it was downgraded to a tropical depression late Saturday.
Waters continued to rise in some places Sunday as President Bush declared four hard-hit counties disaster areas. The storm has been blamed for 13 deaths in the U.S. Its remnants were forecast to dump several inches of rain across Alabama, Mississippi, eastern Louisiana and Tennessee on Sunday and today.
