The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hilary has been downgraded to a Category 2 hurricane as the weakened but still dangerous storm heads toward Mexico's Baja California peninsula.
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico — Hurricane Hilary roared toward Mexico's Baja California peninsula late Saturday as a downgraded but still dangerous Category 2 hurricane that's likely to bring "catastrophic" flooding to the region and cross into the southwest U.S. as a tropical storm.
Officials issued an evacuation advisory for the tourist destination of Santa Catalina Island, 23 miles off the Southern California coast, while authorities in Los Angeles scrambled to get the homeless off the streets and into shelters. Forecasts said the storm was swirling off one of the westernmost spurs on Mexico's southern Baja peninsula. The hurricane was expected to brush past Punta Eugenia on that coast before making landfall along a sparsely populated area of the peninsula about 200 miles south of the Pacific port city of Ensenada.
"If you hear noises, or the ground cracking, it is important for you to check it and get out as fast as possible, because the ground can weaken and your home could collapse," Carrillo said. Officials in Southern California were re-enforcing sand berms, built to protect low-lying coastal communities against winter surf, like in Huntington Beach, which dubs itself as "Surf City USA."
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