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Day two of mostly a continuous rain from Hurricane Simon. It rained all through Thursday night and throughout most of Friday with brief periods of light drizzle. But it's been mostly a light rain. Tlaloc is being kind to us so far in Zihuatanejo Bay. But the coast facing the open ocean is another matter. At least one of the pools at an Ixtapa beachfront hotel was flooded with sand and saltwater today from the large waves and high tide. There's little beach for folks to walk on at Playa El Palmar. Playa Blanca is experiencing a similar problem where too many people built too close to the beach, and now their structures block people from being able to walk freely on certain parts of the beach. Palm trees are falling into the surf.

There's been some minor flooding downtown, but nothing like when it rains hard.

The port of Zihuatanejo and the pier at Playa Linda remain closed to small vessels.

Simon looks to be heading directly for the coast of Colima and Jalisco as a slow-moving Cat 4 hurricane. Acapulco has suffered severe flooding, and many people lost their vehicles. One restaurant owner gave a lifetime free meal pass to the two people who rescued his wife and daughter from their flooded vehicle in a raging current.

It seems like quite a few visitors showed up today. I guess they had paid in advance and couldn't afford to cancel. So there were tourists strolling about along the waterfront in Zihuatanejo and others actually got into the ocean while the waves weren't so rough. They don't seem to be hitting Playa Principal with the same intensity as Las Gatas and La Ropa. Still, a palm tree by the canal in front of the museum planted during the last remodel, against my wife's warnings to the city workers, is about to fall into the bay, as she predicted. The disastrous mess at the pier entrance is of course worse than ever, but with the pier closed it only affected captains using the pier to look after their vessels moored in the vicinity. Workers seemed to be frantically trying to keep the mud from running off the silly hill the municipal government built there.

It looks like we may see some sunshine this coming Sunday, but another big swirly thing looks like it will be affecting us by the middle of next week. Ya gotta love the rainy season!

Don't miss the Eco-Tianguis "Sanka" that happens every Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until 1:40 p.m. in the small plaza in front of the Vicente Guerrero school, across the street from the Museo Arqueológico de la Costa Grande in downtown Zihuatanejo by the waterfront where La Boquita canal runs into the bay. If it looks like rain, then they'll set up in the Cancha Solidaridad two blocks to the east just off Paseo de La Boquita. Besides wonderful handcrafts, they feature a variety of homegrown produce, fresh foods including pastries, breads and tamales, fresh coffee, juices, and mezcal.
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Día dos de una lluvia casi incesante en la bahía de Zihuatanejo producto del huracán "Simon".