Hurricane Grace kills at least eight people as it tears through eastern Mexico, causing flooding, power blackouts and damage to homes before gradually losing strength over mountains
In the Veracruz state capital, Xalapa, streets were turned into muddy brown rivers. Many homes in the region were left without electricity after winds that clocked 125 miles per hour.
Grace weakened to a tropical storm as it churned inland, clocking maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour, according to the US National Hurricane Center . Authorities in Veracruz state said they had prepared 200 storm shelters and urged residents to hunker down in safe places. "We will spend many days without fishing -- almost a week," said Isabel Pastrana Vazquez, head of Veracruz's federation of fisheries cooperatives.
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