Hur­ri­cane Roslyn slammed in­to a sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed stretch of Mex­i­co’s Pa­cif­ic coast be­tween the re­sorts of Puer­to Val­lar­ta and Mazat­lan Sun­day morn­ing, then de­clined to trop­i­cal storm force and quick­ly moved in­land.

By Sun­day night, Roslyn had winds of 30 mph (45 kph), down from its peak of 130 mph. The U.S. Na­tion­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­ter said Roslyn was about 50 miles (80 kilo­me­ters) west-north­west of the north­ern city of Mon­ter­rey.

The hur­ri­cane was mov­ing north­east at 22 miles per hour (35 kph) and was ex­pect­ed to lose strength fur­ther as it moves in­land. The cen­ter ex­pects Roslyn would dis­si­pate be­fore reach­ing Texas.

Lo­cal me­dia re­port­ed two peo­ple died af­ter tak­ing shel­ter in un­sta­ble struc­tures that col­lapsed dur­ing the storm, but the Na­yarit state civ­il de­fense of­fice said it could not con­firm those deaths.

While it missed a di­rect hit, Roslyn brought heavy rain and high waves to Puer­to Val­lar­ta, where ocean surges lashed the beach­side prom­e­nade.

Roslyn came ashore in Na­yarit state, in rough­ly the same area where Hur­ri­cane Or­lene made land­fall Oct. 3.

The hur­ri­cane made land­fall around the vil­lage of San­ta Cruz, near the fish­ing vil­lage of San Blas, about 90 miles (150 kilo­me­ters) north of Puer­to Val­lar­ta.

José An­to­nio Bara­jas, the may­or of San Blas, said in a video broad­cast that some hous­es had been dam­aged and pow­er was knocked out, but no­body was killed or se­ri­ous­ly in­jured.

“The winds from this hur­ri­cane were, in truth, tremen­dous,” Bara­jas said. “The sound of the wind was strong.”

In Tepic, the Na­yarit state cap­i­tal, Roslyn blew down trees and flood­ed some streets; au­thor­i­ties asked res­i­dents to avoid go­ing out Sun­day, as crews worked to clear a land­slide that had blocked a lo­cal high­way.

The Fed­er­al Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion re­port­ed that over 150,000 homes had lost pow­er as a re­sult of the storm, and that by mid­day Sun­day, ser­vice had been re­stored to about one-third of those cus­tomers.

Mean­while, beach­side eater­ies in Puer­to Val­lar­ta where tourists had lunched un­con­cerned Sat­ur­day were aban­doned Sun­day morn­ing, and at some the waves had car­ried away rail­ings and small thatched struc­tures that nor­mal­ly keep the sun off din­ers.

The head of the state civ­il de­fense of­fice for the Puer­to Val­lar­ta area, Adrián Bobadil­la, said au­thor­i­ties were pa­trolling the area, but had not yet seen any ma­jor dam­age.

“The biggest ef­fect was from the waves, on some of the beach­side in­fra­struc­ture,” said Bobadil­la. “We did not have any sig­nif­i­cant dam­age.”

The state civ­il de­fense of­fice post­ed video of of­fi­cers es­cort­ing a large sea tur­tle back to the wa­ter, af­ter it had been thrown up on the beach by the large waves.

The Na­tion­al Wa­ter Com­mis­sion said rains from Roslyn could cause mud­slides and flood­ing and the U.S. hur­ri­cane cen­ter warned that heavy rains could cause flash flood­ing and land­slides over the rugged ter­rain in­land.

SOURCE: As­so­ci­at­ed Press