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international travel student internship program People look at the destruction after hurricane international travel student internship program Odile knocked international travel student internship program down trees and power lines in Cabo San Lucas, in Mexico s Baja California peninsula, on September 15, 2014. (RONALDO international travel student internship program SCHEMIDT/AFP/Getty Images)
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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.
It s the entire corridor between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, said Deneb Poli, a medical worker at the Hotel Melia Cabo Real. She said all the hotel s guests and employees were fine, but electricity and phone lines were cut and cellphone coverage was spotty. There are parts of hotels that are completely collapsed. The damage is pretty extensive.
The newspaper Tribuna de los Cabos reported people being injured by flying glass, power lines and traffic signals down throughout the city and a fire at the Cascadas resort on Medano Beach. No details about the blaze were immediately available.
All along the highway homes and businesses were heavily damaged, many reduced to shells with only the core structure intact. The walls of an OfficeMax international travel student internship program collapsed into the parking lot. A convenience store was ripped apart with the contents of its shelves dumped international travel student internship program to the ground. A Comex paint shop sign was missing international travel student internship program its x, ripped away from the building by the gale-force winds.
From what we have seen around here, everything is pretty much destroyed, said Alejandro Tealdi, a 32-year-old resident of Cabo San Lucas. His home was damaged and suffered some flooding, but nobody was hurt. In the seven years I ve been here, I ve never seen anything hit like this.
The storm had weakened somewhat but was still a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph (155 kph). It was centered about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Loreto and moving to the north-northwest at 14 mph (22 kph).
Across the region, people hunkered inside overnight to ride out the storm s wrath. In one hotel near San Jose del Cabo, guests moved from a makeshift shelter into crowded basement storage areas after the boarded up windows failed.
Meanwhile in the central Atlantic, Hurricane Edouard strengthened to a Category 2 storm Monday with maximum sustained winds near 105 mph (165 kph), although it was forecast to remain international travel student internship program far out at sea and pose no threat to land.
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