Storm debris

Mexico-in-English: Veracruz

I thought I would add this link, she has listed on her site several blogs about Mexico written in english. There is some really interesting reading!

Mexico-in-English: Veracruz

Live beach cam in Mazatlan

http://www.innatmazatlan.com.mx/campage.html

This is a really cool cam, you can control it from your own computer!

Viva Mazatlan!!

Overall, Mazatlan weathered Lane very well. The reports that I am hearing, thus far, say the eye passed about 10 miles north of the city. The infrastructure held up great, utilities were good. We even saw buses running at the height of the storm. Personally, we never lost electricity. We have heard from all parts of the city, some lost power, some had flickers, some never lost. There is water damage in places, wind damage, etc, but in other parts, almost nothing. There are exceptions, for example, the little town of Barron was completely overtaken by the Presidio River. There is certainly alot to cleanup and we will be busy over the next few days!

The road to Barron

Chili surveying the hurricane damage.

Presidio River - Villa Union

Here are a couple of views of the Presidio River at Villa Union. They were taken about 2 pm today. I really have no idea when the river crests, or if it already has.

Estrella del Mar- Post Lane

Estrella was not bad off at all, considering. Lots of new water hazards! I could not get a clear picture, but where the Presidio River was entering the ocean was an amazing sight! The high and fast waters of the Presdio hitting the after hurricane ocean made for some massive crashes!

More from Lane

Oooooohhhh...........THAT Lane.

Here are a few pictures from the aftermath of Lane that we have seen, thus far. We were lucky, just a little leakage in the casa, not much. We are hearing of some rather bad flooding on other parts of the city, though. We wish everyone the best of luck for tonight!

Lane??.....Lane who??

Lane really changed his mind. He was planning on being a low category 2 at the most and was making a visit to the Baja. Nope, 36 hours after that prediction, he is here in Mazatlan........as a high category 3. It is about 10:30 local time and the eye is supposed to make landfall around 12 noon. It is now projected to land somewhere between us and a place 50 miles north of here. We'll see what happens! So far, we have had high winds and LOTS of rain. We drove around about an hour ago. Large number of trees down, signs,debris, etc. Camaron Sabalo was flooded, but not too terribly bad yet. I took a few pictures of the ocean from the Malecon in front of Valentino's. The photos do not really do the waves justice, they are impressive! It was pouring rain and the visibility was low, so the pictures are not very good. After the storm passes, if possible, I'll mosey around and get some more.

Mazatlan Cathedral Pictures

Hurricane John

John came and went with minimal effects here. It started with heavy winds and a torrential downpour about 9:30 pm Thursday (Aug. 31). That lasted about an hour and the streets and canals flooded extremely quickly. We were at the Purple Onion when it started and 15 minutes into it, decided to head home. Good thing we did, because even then, we ran into water above the wheel wells of the truck in several places. After a couple of minor detours, the USS Ford got us home. Luckily, that seems to have been the worst of it. We are still having bands of rain, albeit nothing major, even through this morning. Suprisingly enough though, we never lost electricity. In my limited experience thus far in Mazatlan I had come up with this calculation ; 30 minutes of thunderstorm activity is equal to 4 hours of power outage. Not so this time around!

I went out yesterday and took some pictures from the Malecon of the waves. They were not large, but very rough!