Hurricane Grace pummelled Mexico with torrential rain on Saturday, causing severe flooding and mudslides that killed at least eight people after it became one of the most powerful storms in years to hit the country’s Gulf coast, authorities said.
Grace was whipping up maximum sustained winds of 201 km/h, a Category 3 hurricane on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, when it slammed into the coast near the resort of Tecolutla in Veracruz state in the early morning before weakening to a tropical storm.
Tropical Storm <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Grace?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Grace</a> Advisory 33: Grace Weakening Rapidly Over Land But Still Causing Very Heavy Rains and Flooding Over Portions of East-Central Mexico. <a href=”https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc”>https://t.co/VqHn0u1vgc</a>
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The state government
