PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Hurricane Jova bore down on Mexico's Pacific coast on Tuesday, threatening to hit one of the country's busiest cargo ports and tourist resorts with destructive waves, heavy rainfall and flooding.
In the popular resort town of Puerto Vallarta, it was not yet raining on Tuesday morning but people were bracing for the biggest storm in nine years by boarding up shops and staying at home.
The Category 3 storm, with top winds reaching 115 miles per hour (185 kph), was about 120 miles (190 km) southwest of the port city of Manzanillo at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
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