Environment
Hurricane Patricia and Texas
Residents are bracing for the kind of disaster that was supposed to unfold in Mexico.
Hurricane Patricia was one of the strongest storms in recorded history when it approached southwestern Mexico Friday, but the tempest weakened dramatically after hitting the coast and sweeping inland.
Early Saturday, Patricia was downgraded from a Category 5 hurricane to a tropical storm. By 10 am in Mexico, when people in Jalisco and Colima were emerging from shelters to find only “minimal debris” in the streets, and local airports had resumed flights, the storm was officially a tropical depression.