Emily Hits Gulf Coast

Hurricane Emily knocked down trees and power lines in the city of San Fernando Wednesday, along Mexico’s Gulf coast, as the storm came ashore for a second time. The Mexican government alerted people in the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi and Veracruz to possible flooding as the storm collides with the Sierra Madre Oriental mountains. Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico’s state oil monopoly, said it evacuated about 500 workers from seven off-shore oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week. On July 17, Pemex evacuated more than 15,000 workers from oil platforms in the Campeche Sound, just east of the Yucatan Peninsula.