Sharjah24 - AFP: After making landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast on Sunday, Hurricane Roslyn quickly lost strength but not before causing damage from strong winds, landslides, and flooding.
In the Rosamorada municipality, according to Jorge Benito Rodriguez, security secretary for the Nayarit state in northwest Mexico, one individual passed away.
On the island of Mexcaltitan, an 80-year-old man was killed when his home fell, according to fire officials.
Numerous reports of damage were made amid worries that still-rising rivers could cause additional floods.
According to the US National Hurricane Center, Hurricane Roslyn, a Category 3 storm at the time, made landfall on the west coast of Mexico on Sunday.
At 0000 GMT, Roslyn, which had been downgraded to a tropical storm, was traveling northeast at a speed of around 35 miles per hour and was about 60 miles (95 km) outside of Torreon.
According to the hurricane center's most recent data, Roslyn is likely to weaken further and evaporate tonight.
Authorities in charge of civil protection in Nayarit and Jalisco, the two states that were most severely affected, reported property damage, flooding, falling trees, and landslides that blocked roadways.
Pedro Nunez, the director of Nayarit Civil Protection, said earlier in the day: "We have floods, but they do not constitute a risk as such, and we have not reported any loss of human life."
But he said that river levels were being continuously watched as rain continued.
Erik Newcomer, an American who moved to the tourist city of Puerto Vallarta three months ago, said that it "was a little unsettling." He said, "My house was damaged," after stating that he had to evacuate his kids due to water getting inside their house.
Some homes in the Sayulita community in the state of Nayarit were buried by landslides. Residents waded through muck in an effort to save their belongings.
The Mexican authorities, however, stopped issuing any warnings for Puerto Vallarta and other coastal cities south of San Blas as the storm started to pass.
San Blas to Mazatlan were still under a tropical storm alert.
Roslyn was a strong Category 4 storm on Saturday as it reached Mexico's Pacific coast.
In the states of Jalisco, Colima, Nayarit, and Sinaloa, which are on the Pacific coast, authorities had issued an alarm.
Every year, tropical cyclones strike Mexico's Pacific and Atlantic coasts, often between May and November.
Agatha, the first Pacific storm of the year, made landfall on the southern state of Oaxaca's coast at the end of May, bringing with it heavy rain that resulted in 11 fatalities in mountain communities.
More than 200 people lost their lives when Hurricane Pauline, a Category 4 hurricane, slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast in October 1997.
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