Embassy Warning!!!

Well, we received the warning from the American Embassy in Mexico City this morning, courtesy of the SMA Civil List.  Good thing, too, as our individual notification has yet to appear.  We signed up for the individual notifications when we registered with the State Department as living in Mexico.

Luckily, Hurricane Patricia is headed into the western coast of Mexico - not anywhere near us.  From the Associated Press:

MANZANILLO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Patricia headed toward southwestern Mexico Friday as a monster Category 5 storm, the strongest ever in the Western Hemisphere that forecasters said could make a "potentially catastrophic landfall" later in the day.

 Residents of a stretch of Mexico's Pacific Coast dotted with resorts and fishing villages on Thursday boarded up homes and bought supplies ahead of Patricia's arrival.

 With maximum sustained winds near 200 mph (325 kph), Patricia is the strongest storm ever recorded in the eastern Pacific or in the Atlantic, said Dave Roberts, a hurricane specialist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center.

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In Mexico, officials declared a state of emergency in dozens of municipalities in Colima, Nayarit and Jalisco states that contain the bustling port of Manzanillo and the posh resort of Puerto Vallarta.

 A friend of our moved to Puerto Vallarta last year; we hope he's safe and sound.

In the meanwhile, the BBC is predicting rain for Mexico City and some points north of there.  We're expecting some of that rain, although the BBC only shows Mexico City on their map of Mexico, so we are usually relegated to 'by guess and by golly' as far as our forecasts are concerned.