There are more Fire Department calls as people steal copper plumbing from empty houses, causing flooding.
-- causing flooding and high seas and the death of a fisherman near Acapulco.
Two inches, or about 5 centimeters, of rain had fallen overnight, causing flooding and travel nightmares.
Drainage systems become clogged with plastic bags, films, and other items, causing flooding.
The hurricane will probably push water northward in the bay, flushing it into the rivers and causing flooding inland, they said.
"Currently municipalities are required to maintain and repair dams even if they no longer serve any purpose, even if they're causing flooding problems," said Mr. Loyacano.
Heavy rain was already causing flooding in some areas and the president announced that public employees would not have to work Thursday or Friday.
Connecticut's strongest tropical storm crashed into the coastline as a Category 3 hurricane in 1938, causing flooding, fires and 682 deaths.
A movement against them began in the 1980s in Dhaka, where bags were found to clog drains in the monsoon rains, causing flooding.
And the most powerful drenching yet came Wednesday, as rain hammered the entire region causing flooding, mudslides and evacuations in the deserts, beach towns and valleys.
The volcano erupted Wednesday for the second time in a month, forcing evacuations and causing flooding about 75 miles east of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital.
