No fatalities after flooding in Texas

Melgoza said they weren’t even planning on a “worst case” because “we just didn’t know”.

“Those growing regions are more for the winter”, he said.

The worst natural disaster in Mexico’s recent memory, the magnitude 8 quake of 1985, looms as an example of government failure.

A default would benefit Mexico’s natural disaster fund, helping with the cost of the hurricane, which hit the country last weekend.

Flooding streets and battering buildings, Patricia hit land in an isolated part of the shoreline as a Category 5 hurricane Friday evening before grinding inland.

Skies will stay mostly cloudy into Wednesday afternoon, but there won’t be much rain by then.

Minor poor drainage and urban flooding is possible, however given the recent dry weather main stem rivers should remain within their banks.

“For us, the devastation is personal”, Verdeja said.

Such conditions have existed elsewhere at other times around the world, but hurricanes rarely form so quickly with such strength.

“Nature was kind”, said Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, communications and transportation minister.

Communications and Transport Minister Gerardo Ruíz Esparza told reporters that the worst of the storm moved into the mountains, which lessened its effect on populated areas.

More than 10 million people in Texas and Louisiana are under flash-flood watches, the firm said in an update on its website.

Hurricane Patricia is one of the strongest storms to make landfall.

On Saturday afternoon, Houston Mayor Annise Parker called for patience as low-lying streets throughout the Houston area continued to be flooded.

Pope Francis published an encyclical earlier this year urging care for the environment and action on climate change. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, employs a diverse workforce of 178,500 and generated more than $127 billion in 2014 revenues.

At 3:00 AM GMT on Friday, October 23, the global Space Station (ISS) passed over Hurricane Patricia, and with it, the RapidScat weather monitoring instrument, according to a statement from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.