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Article: Hurricane Jimena swirls past southern Baja resorts
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- September 2, 2009
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Los Cabos resorts mopped up after an overnight lashing from the once-mighty Hurricane Jimena, which weakened Wednesday as it doused the southern end of Mexico's sparsely populated Baja California Peninsula.
Winds had fallen from Tuesday's roaring 150 mph (240 kph) blasts to 100 mph (160 kph) by Wednesday morning and the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said it was expected to weaken further as it runs up the Baja peninsula, home to about 3.5 million people, including more than 150,000 U.S. citizens, according to the State Department.
Despite a pummeling by the fringes of the then-Category 3 hurricane, the Mexican peninsula's biggest resort, the picturesque beach towns ...