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To: elpolvo who wrote (82071)	10/11/2011 1:18:15 PM
From: abuelita	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 104145

omigod - there are so many little eateries along the beach in melaque! i hope the damage sustained is not too high. exico resort area readies for Hurricane Jova The Associated Press Posted: Oct 11, 2011 10:59 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 11, 2011 12:28 PM ET A pedestrian walks on a flooded street on Monday in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, as Hurricane Jova strengthened to a major, Category 3 hurricane off the country's Pacific coast. (Marco Ugarte/Associated Press) Accessibility Links Beginning of Story Content Officials in Mexico's resort-laden Pacific Coast began evacuating low-lying areas on Tuesday as hotels and communities ramped upemergency preparations ahead of Hurricane Jova's anticipated arrival. Hurricanes Inside the eye of a tropical cyclone The Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds near 185 km/h is expected to strike the coastline Tuesday afternoon or evening, causing high waves and serious flooding in the area south of Puerto Vallarta known as Barra de Navidad. Jalisco state authorities evacuated about 500 families late Monday from their homes on the coast, said Alejandro Arias, Puerto Vallarta's civil protection director, after a meeting with state authorities. Authorities shut down the port of Manzanillo, the biggest cargo centre on Mexico's Pacific coast, and the nearby port of Nuevo Vallarta. Officials were evaluating whether to close the port in Puerto Vallarta, said Laura Gurza, chief of the federal Civil Protection emergency response agency. This graphic from the U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami shows coastal areas under a hurricane warning in red and tropical storm warning in blue, as well as the approximate times Hurricane Jova's eye will arrive over land. (NOAA)Perhaps a couple of hundred tourists remained Monday in Barra de Navidad and the nearby beach town of Melaque, said Armando Martinez, an employee of the civil defence department of Cihuatlan, the township that includes both towns. Bill Clark, a 59-year-old tourist from Santa Rosa, Calif., ate tacos at a street stand while enjoying a balmy Monday night. "Some people are going out of town but I'm not really worried," said Clark, who has been coming to the town of about 3,000 people since 1994. "I'm from California, I have been through earthquakes."