MEXICO CITY – Hurricane Pamela has made landfall in Mexico, damaging buildings and disrupting power supply to nearly 200,000 households across several states in the country, reported Sputnik.
According to Mexico’s Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) today, rescuers and technicians are busy trying to restore the power supply in the affected states of Sinaloa, Nayarit, Durango, and Coahuila.
“Out of 195,990 users affected by heavy rains and wind, power supply has been restored for 57%. This amounts to 6% of the total number of commission clients in Nayarit, Sinaloa, Durango, and Coahuila,” the CFE said.
First-category hurricane Pamela made landfall yesterday morning in the Mexican state of Sinaloa and was later downgraded to the level of a tropical storm after moving further inland, the National Hurricane Centre said.
Local authorities in the state of Nayarit issued a flood warning due to a sharp increase in water run-off in the San Pedro and Acaponeta Rivers. Evacuations of people from at-risk zone continue. – Bernama, October 14, 2021
