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Hurricane Lane heads for Mexico Hurricane Lane builds near Mexico
(about 4 hours later)
A tropical storm off Mexico's Pacific coast has been upgraded to a hurricane as it heads for resorts on the country's Baja California peninsula. Hurricane Lane is gaining power as it roars up Mexico's Pacific coastline, and has now strengthened into a Category 2 storm, authorities said.
Mexico has issued a hurricane warning for the southern tip of the peninsula. A hurricane warning was in effect for the tip of Baja California peninsula and the coast of Sinaloa state.
The category 1 hurricane has been packing maximum winds near 130km/h (80 mph) and is expected to strengthen. A seven-year-old boy reportedly died as a result of flooding in Acapulco.
At 2100 GMT, it was located 450km/h south-east of the Cabo San Lucas resort and was moving north-west at 15 km/h, forecasters said. Emergency workers, already exhausted by Hurricane John, which traced a similar path two weeks ago, said they were making all possible preparations.
The initially Tropical Storm Lane is forecast to move parallel to the coast, passing by Islas Marias later on Friday. At 1700 EDT (0100 GMT), Hurricane Lane was about 130km (80 miles) west-northwest of Cabo Corrientes - the cape off mainland Mexico's Jalisco province - said the US National Hurricane Center.
It may brush the tip of the peninsula this weekend before heading back toward the Mexican mainland, forecasters said. It was heading north-northwest at about 20km hour, packing sustained speeds of near 160km/h - making it a Category 2 hurricane.
The eye of the storm was then expected to hit land near Los Mochis early on Monday. Tourists scrambled to leave before the hurricane hit
The hurricane was predicted to remain offshore for at least the next 24 hours, but authorities warned a slight deviation from its predicted path could bring it ashore sooner than forecast.
Some tourists were taking no chances.
"I don't want to be here when the hurricane hits," Robert Compton, a 58-year-old retired plumber from Las Vegas, who was flying out of Los Cabos resort on the Baja California peninsula, told Reuters news agency.
Boarded up
In the path of Lane, authorities warned of storm surges and large, powerful waves. Heavy rain was also forecast.
Residents in the hurricane's projected path boarded up buildings and stocked up on emergency supplies.
"We're all tired but we're getting ready to face another one," Jose Garcia Gajon, civil protection head for the state of southern Baja California, told Reuters.
"We're going to prepare as if it were going to hit, because with these things, you don't mess around," he said.
Further south-west along the Mexican mainland coast, in Acapulco, a seven-year-old boy died in a landslide after the storm dumped the city with rain, officials said, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Flooding was also reported elsewhere in Guerrero province.