Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico’s Pacific coast on Friday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts.
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Parts of north Texas, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, were on alert as the National Weather Service placed several counties on flash flood warning.
Mudslides stranded nearly 200 vehicles and closed a California highway that is a popular route from the central state to Las Vegas.
Heavy rains touched off flooding and mudslides in foothill communities north of Los Angeles on Thursday, swamping cars, stranding drivers and prompting authorities to close several major roads.
The Mayor of South Carolina’s state capital, Columbia, declared a nighttime curfew starting at 6 p.m. EDT Sunday in response to historic flooding, according to his Twitter page.
The U.S. Coast Guard also said one of its helicopter crews had rescued 12 mariners who abandoned their sinking 212-foot (64.6 m) cargo ship after it was beset by heavy weather from Joaquin on Thursday evening off the northwest coast of Haiti.