Update: Cabo San Lucas Is Trashed; Odile Flood Threat In U.S. Worsens

Inside the terminal at the Cabo
San Lucas airport. 

The resort mecca of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico got absolutely nailed by Hurricane Odile, as anyone reading or watching the news can tell you.   

So far, I haven't heard reports of fatalities, but news is just barely starting to trickle out of the resort area. Infrastructure is damaged, so I'm sure we are having trouble getting a complete assessment of the destruction.

Below is a very telling video of a drive through the resort shortly after the hurricane tapered off. You can see tourists walking around kind of shell shocked, and a lot of damage.

Also, scroll down below the video, as I have some updates on the potentially worsening effects the remnants of Odile will have in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada and nearby areas.

Here's the Cabo San Lucas destruction:




Hurricane Odile moved northward, as expected, but the track was a little to the east of some forecasts.

Because of the track that's a little more to the east, the remnants now look like they will head right toward Arizona. Of course, Odile won't be an organized storm by then, just a big blob of moisture.

A really BIG blob of moisture.

Flash flood watches are up for a wide area of the southwestern United States, including much of Arizona and New Mexico, southern Nevada and extreme southeastern California, in the deserts.

Some of the heavy rain will come in by early Wednesday, but the worst of it will be Wednesday night and Thursday.

And wouldn't you know, the rain won't hit the areas of California that are having an epic drought, and an epic heat wave, and epic wildfires. Instead, it's going to rain hard in areas that got wicked flash floods in Arizona and southern Nevada.

Forecasts for the amount of rain that will hit the flash flood watch area have increased since this morning. Some areas could get up to five inches of rain, or even more than that.

Stay tuned on this one.