(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Patricia, the strongest in the history of the Americas, prepared to barrel into Mexico’s Pacific coast Friday, sending guests fleeing hotels in the Puerto Vallarta resort area.
About 400,000 people are considered “vulnerable," civil protection official Jose Maria Tapia told reporters in Mexico City. The Category 5 storm is packing winds as fast as 200 miles per hour.
Patricia is expected to make landfall Friday between Vallarta and Manzanillo, Mexico’s busiest container port. The “extremely dangerous” hurricane will trigger life-threatening mudslides and flash floods as it heads its way north toward Texas, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.
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