Torrential rains from Hurricane Hilary hit the postcard-perfect city of Santa Rosalía in Mexico’s state of Baja California Sur on Saturday, sending streams of brown floodwaters coursing by its streets of colourful homes.
Mexican civil safety authorities stated on Saturday evening that one individual had died after a household’s automobile was swept away by a stream simply north of Santa Rosalía. Edith Aguilar Villavicencio, the mayor of the native municipality of Mulegé, stated that 4 others within the automobile had been saved however that rescuers couldn’t attain the fifth “without exposing their own lives.”
On Sunday morning, she stated that the hurricane had prompted “very severe” harm to Santa Rosalía, which is residence to about 14,000 folks. She posted a video whereas driving by the realm to evaluate harm, describing downed utility poles and branches within the streets.
Santa Rosalía was constructed on the coast of the Gulf of California by a French copper firm, El Boleo, within the nineteenth century. It was at one level the nation’s solely main producer of the ore and boasts a fishing trade.
But in recent times, Santa Rosalía has emerged as a preferred vacationer vacation spot — charming guests with its wood-frame buildings and prefabricated metal church designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, of Eiffel Tower fame. The church was thought to have been destined for Belgium however one way or the other was shipped in sections to Santa Rosalia as a substitute within the late 1800s.
In June, the state ministry of tourism named Santa Rosalía a “magical town.”
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