Posted on 10/24/2015 4:20:44 PM PDT by smokingfrog
After Hurricane Patricia menaced Mexico as one of the strongest storms to ever make landfall, officials said early reports showed no major damage Saturday as the once-ferocious system deteriorated into a post-tropical cyclone.
Howling winds had battered trees, flooded streets and ripped down power lines overnight Friday in coastal areas of southwestern Mexico — but the posh tourist resorts, bustling ports and fishing villages dotting the Pacific Coast region appeared largely unscathed as the storm soaked mostly sparsely populated stretches.
Rescue workers were still assessing the damage from the record-setting hurricane, and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto tweeted Saturday afternoon that "so far, there are no reports of major damage" from the storm.
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What a tragedy for the leftists!
All the lost opportunities as this “crisis” peters out.
And another “world’s worst” fails to live up to its billing.
You’d think the people involved are trying to keep the rest of us in a perpetual state of alarm.
Drudge headlines today:
BIGGEST STORM EVER RECORDED’ INFLICTS LITTLE DAMAGE...
SPIN...
we are in Lake Jackson Texas on the Gulf Coast and so far have gotten less than one inch of rain, no wind. etc.
I was listening to public radio while working outside today - they were clearly disappointed.
Very little rain in NW Houston, but the rain is starting to pick-up now. Got about 2 inches of rain in the last 24 hrs.
Oddly, if a massive hurricane hits an area where there is little to be destroyed, not much will be destroyed.
The Biggest, most ferocious storm IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND (MAKE THAT HUMANKIND) Will destroy the Erf as we know it and FOR ONCE AND ALL PROVE MAN-MADE GLOBALWARMING!!!!
heavy drinking and snorting tonight at drive-by central...
Went to church this evening just south of Pearland. Poured and wind blew beginning about 4 p.m. Lots and lots of water in ditches and on the road and it’s still coming down. Had escaped with nothing prior to that. Just really weird storm pattern.
The high mountains along the Mexican Coast in that area tore Patricia apart.
It was a very powerful storm. Thankfully for whatever reason it wasn’t catastrophic. It had the potential to be.
Those winds killed a lot of people. They just don't know it. It's Mexico.
If you click on those Drudge links, they are both AP stories trying to ‘explain’ the lack of damage and flooding. Since the Drive-by Media has infected almost everything, their ‘explanation’ is hilarious. Now, apparently, the ‘massive’ 200 mph winds were actually restricted to a small portion of the storm center. And just like Katrina, the real level of the hurricane was ‘not clear’ (in other words, less) upon landfall. GloBull Gloaming creepozoids.
I was wondering why the “Doom Porn” crowd fell silent over night.
Did the kids go water skiing in the bar ditches off of "Telephone Road"?
Wait! I thought all the computer models were predicting 150 mph winds and the biggest storm in 100 years. You mean computer models can be wrong? Aren’t the global warming predictions based on computer models?
We’re off of 288 and 518. Try to stay way away from Telephone Road. LOL. Hasn’t stopped raining since about 3 p.m. though and understand we’re under a flood warning. Bayous, holding ponds and ditches were really filling up by the time we started home around 6:30. It can stop any time it wants to now or we may have to start on the ark again tomorrow morning.
Nearly 10” so far in Austin. Maybe more.
Lived off of Telephone Rd in the late 70s and early 80’s when I worked in the fab shops and chemical plants all around the area. Went through a few tropical storms and one hurricane. Remember it being flooded from Hobby all the way to the coast a number of times. Old timers said that was just run of the mill stuff.
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