CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Hurricane Odile hammered Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula overnight, damaging homes and tearing away the facades of luxury resorts, shattering countless car and hotel windows and leaving lobbies swamped and full of debris on Monday.
The storm, which made landfall near Cabo San Lucas the previous night as a powerful Category 3 hurricane, toppled trees, power poles and road signs along the main highway, which at one point was swamped by rushing floodwaters. Room windows at the Hotel Westin were blown out, mud and rock blocked the entrance to the Club Regina, and workers said the Hilton was seriously damaged.
Odile continued to rake the state of Baja California Sur as it marched northward with strong winds and heavy rains.
Odile was forecast to slow down and lose intensity over the next day or so.
