RAINS FLOOD THE BAJA LANDING STRIP AT SAN FRANCISQUITO

Sept. 10, 2004, Roger Crenshaw, San Francisquito, Baja California, Mexico Rain Report:

The San Francisquito airport was under water when we left, the road into the port was washed out. It wasn't even a chubasco, just a looooong gully washer. The "flash flood" took out a big section of beach, looks like the Amazon delta. At times the "river" going by our house was 100 yds wide and deeper than 5 feet.

Beto was still there at the port since the main road is washed out by rains also and it takes a four wheel drive to get out of the port and also to do the grade at the Pie de la Cuesta. A large section of road about 1/2 mile from San Francisquito is washed out also, the curve at the bottom of the hill by the airport. I would not attempt this trip without four-wheel drive right now. Fixing this is going to be a while.

San Francisquito rained solid buckets for 24 hours. You could stand outside, lather up and shower, 30 knots of wind, filled our boat several times in the port and we had to hike over to the port to bail it and ford the river to get back.

We were planning on going down on the 25th but with all the standing water, mosquitoes will be a big problem. San Francisquito fishing (went out three times) was good. Dorado are in even though the water temp was 75. The water pipes to the cabanas got washed out and the generator roof for main cabanas (which burned off earlier this year) made the main generator at the cabanas unusable. I do not know what the power and water situation is. Genaro was not there.