Loreto Mexico. Forty per cent of homes were consummately or comparatively damaged on the islands of Margarita and Magdalena, mainly having demolished their roofs, said a make public from articulate protection services. Read.

October 12, 2008 02:37pm HURRICANE Norbert struck Mexico's northwest Pacific coastline today, thrilling off roofs, knocking down trees and leaving one child missing and more than 20,000 homes without electricity, city authorities say. Norbert, which made landfall as a Category Two storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale, came ashore at Puerto Cortes, on the Baja California peninsula around 1630 GMT (11am AEDT) Mexico's National Weather Service said. It was later downgraded to a Category One raise hell with steady winds of 150km/h. "The in one piece bailiwick is being upset by typhoon strength'' winds and downpours, a National Weather Service forecaster said by phone.

"A crew frustrating to cantankerous the Miramar cove has been reported as missing after the stylish swept him away,'' the authorities in Loreto, one of the municipalities Norbert tore through, said. Some 2850 man were housed in fleeting shelters. Forty per cent of homes were fully or point damaged on the islands of Margarita and Magdalena, mainly having helpless their roofs, said a write-up from say preservation services.

In the Baja California major of La Paz, the tornado knocked out fuel to 13,000 homes, and to 8,000 more in Ciudad Constitution, the Federal Electricity Commission reported. La Paz worldwide airport suspended its activities at noon neighbourhood regulate Saturday, but the out-of-towner watering-place of Los Cabos remained open. Hotel reservations were down by around 40 per cent mainly in Los Cabos and Loreto, townsperson tourism officials said. At 0300 GMT (2pm AEDT) today the eyeball of Norbert was located about 195km east-northeast of Loreto, Mexico, the US-based National Hurricane Centre reported. "Little swap in gutsiness is expected until landfall … then a impetuous weakening is foresee over the monumental ground of Mexico,'' the NHC said.

The wind-storm however is expected to jettison up to 15cm of come down over the peninsula and portions of northwestern Mexico, "with reachable unique amounts of 10 inches (25cm)'', the NHC said.

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