Hurricane Carlotta

A store with a living space above it in Puerto Escondido, Mexico, was destroyed by Hurricane Carlotta.

Car­lot­ta's force is being felt in Santa Cruz...​waves break­ing over the cruise ship dock, pound­ing the break­wa­ter. Some poor soul lost a panga, and an­oth­er cou­ple in trou­ble in the darse­na.
I shot this video from the con­crete bath­room of a beach bar as Hur­ri­cane Car­lot­ta starts pound­ing the beach com­mu­ni­ty of Playa Zipo­lite, Oax­a­ca. Min­utes be­fore we had been laugh­ing and jok­ing at the bar as the rain and surf pound­ed. Then sud­den­ly the hur­ri­cane force winds ar­rived and ev­ery­one ran for cover. No­tice near the end I yell "porra!" as a tree branch crash­es down in front of me. For a mo­ment I for­got where I was and yelled out in Por­tuguese (porra = damn!).
A resident stands in his shack that was damaged by Hurricane Carlotta in Zicatela, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca

Tourists walk at a beach covered by debris after the passing of Hurricane Carlotta in Puerto Escondido, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca June 16, 2012. Carlotta weakened into a tropical storm on Saturday after battering Mexico's Pacific coast and killing at least two children when their house collapsed in a landslide. The government of Mexico lifted the hurricane warning from Salina Cruz to Acapulco after Carlotta made landfall in the southern ...

A man walks over the debris of his home damaged by hurricane Carlotta in the community of San Antonio Tonameca in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.

Photograph by: Jorge Luis Plata, Reuters , Reuters

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