Photos: Hurricane Patricia slams into Mexico
Strongest hurricane ever recorded at sea hit primarily in sparsely populated areas Friday.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Residents and tourists take refuge in a shelter in Puerto Vallarta.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People stand at the edge of a collapsed bridge, overlooking the Ameca River in Cofradia, northwest of Guadalajara, Mexico, on Saturday.
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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.

