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Photos: Hurricane Patricia slams into Mexico
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Photos: Hurricane Patricia slams into Mexico

  • Oct 24, 2015
  • Oct 24, 2015
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Strongest hurricane ever recorded at sea hit primarily in sparsely populated areas Friday.

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Residents stand outside their flooded house in Zoatlan, Nayarit state, northwest of Guadalajara, Mexico. Hurricane Patricia made landfall Friday on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific Coast. 

Eduardo Verdugo / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Men remove protective wood beams from the front of a business the morning after Hurricane Patricia passed farther south, sparing Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Saturday.    

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

A framed baby pictures lies atop a collapsed wall as residents sort through the remains of homes destroyed by Hurricane Patricia, in Chamela, Mexico, on Saturday.    

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Hotel rooms where local residents sought shelter during the passage of Hurricane Patricia only to have the roof torn off from over their heads, are seen from above at the El Refugio hotel in Emiliano Zapata, Mexico, on Saturday.   

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

A woman holds her baby in a flooded street as she waits to be taken to a shelter in Zoatlan, Nayarit state, northwest of Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday.   

Eduardo Verdugo / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Residents and tourists take refuge in a shelter in Puerto Vallarta.

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Josefina Magana Ruiz pauses to play with her pet pigeon, Ponchon, as she goes through soaked possessions inside her damaged home, a day after the passage of Hurricane Patricia in the village of La Fortuna, Mexico.  

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

A couple walks along the waterfront under a steady rain, as rainfall increases with the approach of Hurricane Patricia in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday.   

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Soldiers help a woman to leave her flooded house to take her to a shelter in Zoatlan, Nayarit state, northwest of Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday. Hurricane Patricia made landfall Friday on a sparsely populated stretch of Mexico's Pacific Coast as a Category 5 storm.   

Eduardo Verdugo / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Homes stripped of their roofs are surrounded by downed trees and debris one day after the passage of Hurricane Patricia, in Chamela, Mexico, on Saturday.     

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

A family's possessions sit exposed inside a house stripped of its roof one day after the passage of Hurricane Patricia in Chamela, Jalisco, on Saturday.   

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Guadalupe Reyna Magana is seen through a hole in a screen door walking inside his family's home, as they sort through soaked and damaged belongings after much of the roof was torn off by Hurricane Patricia in La Fortuna, Mexico.  

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Women, children and senior citizens get a meal at a shelter set up in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Patricia in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday.    

Cesar Rodriguez / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

A pregnant woman and her child rest inside a shelter as they wait for the passing of Hurricane Patricia in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, on Friday.   

Cesar Rodriguez / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

People stand at the edge of a collapsed bridge, overlooking the Ameca River in Cofradia, northwest of Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday.   

Eduardo Verdugo / AP

Hurricane Patricia

Hurricane Patricia

Esteban Garcia Tolentino sits with his girlfriend, Carla Marlen Quintero, and their daughter, Sherlyn, on the foundation of their former home, destroyed a day earlier by Hurricane Patricia, in Chamela, Jalisco, on Saturday. 

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

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