Hurricanes hit the country annually on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and between May and November.
Shopkeepers in Puerto Vallarta were seen boarding up windows and piling up sandbags as a precaution against potential flooding.
Ahead of its arrival, the government deployed around 6,000 members of the armed forces to help residents, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who urged people to take shelter. The storm had quickly strengthened to the second-highest category on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale before reaching land.
But some people were still seen in the streets, taken by surprise by the speed of the hurricane’s arrival. After previously warning of a dangerous storm surge where Lidia made landfall, the NHC said water levels along the coast of west central Mexico would gradually subside overnight.
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