Hurricane Odile made landfall at the southernmost tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula late Sunday. Its gales whipped torrents of rain ashore, chasing visitors in popular tourist destinations into closed quarters.
Sarah McKinney was in Cabo San Lucas on maternity leave from her job in Arkansas, when the category 3 storm hit there with 125 mph winds at around 9:45 p.m. Pacific (12:45 a.m. Eastern).
She and her newborn daughter Madison had already evacuated out of harm's way from their first hotel to a second one. But even there, the room roared like a wind tunnel, as Odile passed over.
At least 15,000 tourists were sharing her experience in Cabo, Mexican civil defense official Luis Felipe Puente said.
The storm is moving up the coast to the north-northwest at 16 mph, triggering hurricane warnings up to Santa Rosalia, the National Hurricane Center said in a bulletin. Its maximum sustained winds have tempered to 115 mph, and Odile is expected to further weaken.
McKinney piled up her belongings in the bathtub to protect them from the water seeping through the door to her room. She dammed it up with a mattress, but it still came in about an inch deep.
"I've cleared the beds and linen closets and have my daughter and I held up in the bathroom," she told CNN.
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