Hurricane Jimena Bears Down on Mexico

By MARK STEVENSON
Associated Press Writer
LOS CABOS, Mexico – Hurricane Jimena brushed passed the resort towns at the southern tip of the Baja California, lashing them with driving rain and winds as its fierce core bore down on a stretch of desert coastline to the north.
Despite the pummeling by the fringes of the Category 3 hurricane, the Mexican peninsula's biggest resort, Los Cabos, appeared to be escaping major damage beyond power outages and mud-choked roads.
Dozens of people evacuated from the Los Congrejos shantytown huddled in darkened rooms at a school after electricity failed during the storm. Trying to calm squalling babies and ignore hunger from having little food, the evacuees waited for dawn, and a chance to look at what the hurricane did to their homes made of plastic sheeting, wood and tar paper. Full Story