Mexico Hurricane 4 - John roars into Baja's Cabo San Lucas on Mexico's Pacific coast
NAME: MEX HURRICANE4 20060901I
TAPE: EF06/0801
IN_TIME: 10:01:17:15
DURATION: 00:01:52:24
SOURCES: AP TELEVISION
DATELINE: Los Cabos, 1 September 2006
RESTRICTIONS:
SHOTLIST
1. Wide of Cabo San Lucas beach
2. Various of waves crashing against beach
3. Wide hotel "Tesoro" entrance
4. Various of shelter in hotel "Tesoro"
5. People watching television weather report
6. Close up of television
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shauna O'Leary, tourist from San Francisco:
"We have a few plans, one of them involves goggles. We brought our goggles with us just in case we have to go for a swim."
8. Tourists watching television screen
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheree Bayeur, tourist from San Francisco:
"It's been a long day of 'what if's' and there is still more to come."
10. Zoom in from wide to medium of flooded streets
11. Wide of workers pulling cars out of flooded road
12. Police workers moving car in flooded street, pull out to wide of same
13. Reporter speaking to Los Cabos Deputy Mayor Angel Marquez
14. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Angel Marquez, Los Cabos Deputy Mayor:
"Some people are resisting (being evacuated). There is certain resistance by some people (to evacuate) with good reason. They are afraid of losing their belongings."
15. Various of people receiving food
STORYLINE
Hurricane John roared over the lightly populated eastern tip of the Baja California peninsula late on Friday, but the storm appeared to spare the glistening resorts of Los Cabos, authorities said.
The storm's eye came ashore on Friday evening about 20 miles (30 kilometres) northeast of San Jose del Cabo, and the
Category 2 storm was moving north at 9 mph (15 kph.)
Forecasters said it would likely lash the state capital of La Paz
with top sustained winds of 110 mph (180 kph) before
crossing the narrow stretch of land and heading out to sea.
Luis Armando Diaz, mayor of the municipality encompassing
both resorts of Cabo San Lucas and San Jose del Cabo there was no "head-on" impact but that the region could still be affected.
On Thursday night, local police drove through the shantytown of La Palma, where tarp and tarpaper shacks line a dry riverbed, to warn people to move to safer locations.
In a letter, the administration asked those who chose to stay in their rooms to hunker down in the bathrooms.
For local residents, shelters were set up in 131 schools. State Governor Narciso Agundez said residents who refused to head for higher ground would be forcibly removed from their homes.
Shop owners and hotels boarded up windows and hotel workers stripped rooms of light fixtures and furniture, in case plate-glass windows shattered.
Between seven-thousand and eight-thousand tourists who remained in Cabo San Lucas were relocated to hotel ballrooms and rooms away from the beach to wait out the powerful storm.
Officials closed the airport on Thursday night, ending a scramble for last-minute flights.