PUERTO SAN CARLOS, Mexico — Hurricane Norbert swept across Mexico’s southern Baja California peninsula Saturday, tearing off roofs and forcing hundreds of people to flee flooded homes.
It hit land near Puerto Charley on Baja’s southwest coast as a Category 2 hurricane but weakened to Category 1 after emerging over the Gulf of California, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. Norbert was expected to reach mainland Mexico sometime before dawn today.
More than 2,000 people were in shelters in Ciudad Constitucion, many of them from coastal villages where nearly all homes had lost their roofs, said Miguel Arevalos, the local Civil Protection director.
The storm’s remnants were expected to continue to dump rain on water-logged West Texas, where authorities prepared for more flooding.
The Associated Press
