Hurricane Weakens to Storm, Causes Floods in Mexico
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CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Hurricane Greg weakened to a tropical storm as it brushed the tip of Mexico’s Baja California on Tuesday, causing heavy rain, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of residents and stranding American tourists.
Water rose thigh-deep at crossroads outside the resort town of Cabo San Lucas, flooding some buildings. Army jeeps carried local residents across the flooded area to their homes.
But tourist cafes reopened their doors, and residents began to return to their rain-soaked homes.
At 9 p.m., Greg’s center was 45 miles northwest of Cabo San Lucas, creeping slowly northwestward, away from the Baja coast. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Greg’s sustained winds had dropped to about 50 mph.
In the states of Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima and Sinaloa, floods caused by storms over the weekend began to recede Tuesday. In Jalisco, hundreds of people who evacuated their homes began returning Tuesday.
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