(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Patricia, the strongest in the historyof the Americas, prepared to barrel into Mexico’s Pacific coastFriday, sending guests fleeing hotels in the Puerto Vallarta resortarea.
About 400,000 people are considered “vulnerable," civilprotection official Jose Maria Tapia told reporters in Mexico City.The Category 5 storm is packing winds as fast as 200 miles perhour.
Patricia is expected to make landfall Friday between Vallartaand Manzanillo, Mexico’s busiest container port. The “extremelydangerous” hurricane will trigger life-threatening mudslides andflash floods as it heads its way north toward Texas, according tothe U.S. National Weather Service.
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