Hurricane Jimena hit Miami, Florida USA

Hurricane Jimena spotted on Baja California yesterday afternoon between Puerto San Andresito and San Jaunico fishing Village on the peninsula’s west coast. Some schools, roads and commercial establishment were paralyzed as the Mexican government announced a state emergency for Los Cabos and the Baja California Sur state capital of La Paz.

The roof of the houses were ripping, toppled power poles and flooded streets, luckily no injuries and no major damage reported.

The storm continues to weaken as it moves northward up the Baja California Peninsula, according to the National Hurriccane Center in Miami.

On September 1, 2009, an Emergency Declaration was issued for the municipalities of Los Cabos, La Paz and Comondu so that authorities will have Natural Disaster Fund resources to meet the food, shelter and health needs of the affected people.

Hurricane Bill Strike US

Bill became the first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic season as it continued to gain strength, but remained far from any shore Monday morning, forecasters said.

The storm reach 3 to 6 inches of rain, with some areas receiving up to 10 inches across portions of the Florida Panhandle, central and southern Alabama and extreme southwestern Georgia. Hurricane Bill brought rain and heavy winds to Nova Scotia in eastern Canada on Sunday, but the Category 1 storm caused little serious damage as it moved northeast toward the region's offshore oil and gas facilities.

The said hurricane blow down more than 23,000 homes and business in southern Nova Scotia and felled trees but did little serious damage to the provincial capital of Halifax. No injuries in Canada have been reported.

It also brought heavy surf, swells and rain to the U.S. Atlantic seaboard, including the island of Martha's Vineyard, where President Barack Obama and his family were to start a summer vacation. Their departure was delayed four hours by the hurricane.

In Central Florida, Volusia County Beach Patrol officials were blaming waves generated by Bill for the drowning on Saturday of a 54-year-old Orlando man near New Smyrna Beach, local media said on Sunday. The man washed ashore unconscious after swimming out to bodysurf in rough waves.

In Maine, 20 people were rescued on Sunday after being swept into the sea by large waves in Acadia National Park, said Adam Sansoucie, a Coast Guard official. He added that 10 of those people had been hospitalized