Patricia landfalled on Mexico

  Scott Kelly, a NASA astronaut of the International Space Station tweeted several phones of Hurricane Patricia on Friday. It is certain that the scale of it is more catastrophic than any other ones which we experienced. I have known about the news but I didn't mentioned specially because this is that happened in the other side in the world.

These pictures made me so scared and its scale was much beyond my expectation. I also felt Patricia is beautiful weather phenomena because of her scale. However, it was not beautiful one but a terrible weather disaster on the ground.

 The storm made landfall in Mexico on Friday, with winds reaching speeds of 165 mph. Hours after making landfall, the storm weakened but still packed winds of 130 miles per hour (210 km per hour). There was flooding in parts of the city, though it escaped the worst of the immensely powerful storm. Visitors and residents weathered the hurricane's onslaught in emergency shalters hoping it would not do as much damage as the last storm of this magnitude, Typhoon Haiyan , which killed thousands of people in the Phillippines in 2013. THe storm killed over 6,300people and wiped out or damaged nearly everything in its path on November. 8, 2013, destroying around 90 percent of the city of Tacloban.

 About 400,000 individuals live in the areas expected to be affected. It slammed into a stretch of sparsely populated coastline near the popular beach gateway of Puerto Vallarta, where 15,000 tourists were evaluated to avoid torrential rain and potentially lether winds. In Puerto Vallarta, the heart of a string  of resorts that range from low-end mega hotels to exclusive villas attracting tech billionaires and pop stars, loudspeakers had blared orderds to evacuate hotels ahead of Patricia's arrival. The streets emptied as police wailed in anticipation of Patricia, which gathered strength suddenly on Thursday night. "Whichever way you turn, there's debris," said Juan Michel, 36, a hotel manager in the resort of  Barra de Navidad to the northwest of Manzanillo, who was taking cover from Patricia with 13 others. "We've never seen anything like this.

 In such situation, Scott Kelly had just tweeted an imposed image of the giant storm from 249 miles (401 km) above Earth on the International Space Station along with the massage:"Stay safe below, Mexico."  I've never tweeted but recognized a strong impact of it, which enable to show what's happening at somewhere in the world. I was afraid of dangerous of SNS but such a speedy communication tools can be said difinitly useful for us.


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