Along Mexico’s southern Pacific coast, floodwaters have begun to recede, leaving behind devastated towns and 15 dead, after John struck the coast once as a hurricane and again as tropical storm Desperate residents in the town of Coyuca de Benitez,

Residents in southwestern Mexico on Saturday (September 28) evacuated from homes flooded by the remnants of Hurricane John that ravaged the Pacific coastline for a week, bringing deadly floods and landslides that reportedly left more than 20 people dead.