{"id":8928,"date":"2023-08-20T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2023-08-20T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T15:18:50","slug":"us-southwest-on-high-alert-as-hurricane-hilary-approaches-from-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=8928","title":{"rendered":"US southwest on high alert as Hurricane Hilary approaches from Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hilary\u2019s winds had significantly weakened but were still sustained at a hazardous 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers per hour) with higher gusts. According to international media reports, Mexico\u2019s Civil Protection agency said in a statement that river and stream levels had risen significantly in Loreto and Mulege on Baja California\u2019s east coast, which was also hit by landslides and road closures. It added that one person had died after a vehicle was swept away by a stream in Mulege. Residents and workers in the Mexican tourist resort of Cabo San Lucas have put up protective boarding and laid thousands of sandbags as large waves crash ashore. Military personnel were seen patrolling the beach in the city, a popular destination for both Mexican and foreign tourists at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula. \u201cWe took all the precautionary measures last night,\u201d Omar Olvera told\u00a0reporters\u00a0at the Cabo San Lucas beachfront restaurant where he works. With sandbags piled protectively around the restaurant, he said, \u201cWe\u2019re just looking out for the workers and waiting for the weather to come.\u201d Hilary originated from a disturbance south of the southern coast of Mexico associated with a tropical wave that entered the far eastern Pacific Ocean from Central America on August 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Hilary\u2019s winds had significantly weakened but were still sustained at a hazardous 90 miles per hour (145 kilometers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8929,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}