MEXICO: Hurricane Alex slams into gulf coast and causes flooding in industrial hub of Monterrey

Record ID: 303536

  • Title: MEXICO: Hurricane Alex slams into gulf coast and causes flooding in industrial hub of Monterrey
  • Date: 2nd July 2010
  • Summary: MONTERREY, MEXICO (JULY 1, 2010) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) GENERAL VIEW OF STREET NEXT TO RAGING RIVER FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF FLOODED STREET VARIOUS OF OVERFLOWING RIVER WASHING OVER BRIDGE GENERAL VIEW OF RAGING RIVER VARIOUS OF FLOODED STREETS THROUGHOUT CITY, TRUCK TRYING TO DRIVER THROUGH FLOODED STREET STREET LAMP, HEAVY RAIN FALLING VARIOUS OF FLOODED STREETS THROUGHOUT THE CITY VARIOUS OF FLOODED NEIGHBOURHOODS, HEAVY RAIN FALLING VARIOUS OF ANOTHER TRUCK TRYING TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED CITY STREET GENERAL VIEW OF RAGING RIVER WASHING OVER STREET
  • Embargoed: 17th July 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Mexico
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes,Weather
  • Reuters ID: LVA2CY6R17GSU1CB6AVE5TBQZSG
  • Story Text: Hurricane Alex drenched the Texas-Mexico border on Thursday (July 1) as the powerful storm slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast, spawning tornadoes and flooding towns, but it spared U.S. oil wells.
    Unleashing winds of 105 mph (165 kph) that uprooted trees and knocked over flimsy houses, the Category 2 hurricane was a blow to efforts to control the BP Plc oil spill off the Louisiana coast, where some operations were suspended.
    In the industrial Mexican city of Monterrey, torrentail rainfall from the first named storm of the 2010 Atlantic season soaked streets. One man died in Monterrey on Wednesday when his house collapsed in the heavy rains, rescue authorities said. Alex killed a dozen people in Central America over the weekend.
    Mexican marines evacuated thousands of people from fishing communities along the Gulf coast and into shelters, but some refused to leave their homes even as water ran in under doors.
    Alex made landfall on the Tamaulipas coast around 9 p.m. on Wednesday (0200 GMT on Thursday), the Miami-based center said. Its rains had already flooded highways as far inland as the industrial city of Monterrey.
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