By Selena Hill (staff@latinospost.com) | First Posted: Sep 21, 2013 11:39 AM EDT
Tags Tropical Storm Manuel, mexico, Texas

The death toll in Mexico has now surged to 97 people due a combination of three storms that hit the country this week.

On Sunday, Tropical Storm Manuel pounded the beach resort of Acapulco on the western shores of Mexico's Pacific Coast, while Hurricane Ingrid battered the Gulf Coast. Manuel, the same storm that devastated Acapulco, then strengthened into a hurricane and slammed Mexico once again with heavy rains Wednesday evening.  It also caused a massive landslide in the municipality of Atoyac de Alvarez, a tiny coffee-growing village deep in the country's southern mountains. 

Another landslide in the village of La Pintada, near the Pacific coast, killed at least 15 people while almost 70 residents are missing, authorities said according to the BBC. 

Tropical Storm Manuel, which briefly became a hurricane, made landfall Thursday morning in northern Sinaloa bringing 9.58 inches of rainfall in 24 hours, causing widespread flooding and forcing hundreds from their homes. As it hit land, Manuel also brought winds of up to 75mph.  It then gradually began losing strength, before going back to being a tropical storm.

In the aftermath, President Enrique Pena Nieto has called off his planned trip to the UN in New York next week to focus on relief efforts.

Although Manuel is now expected to dissipate before the weekend, the storm's heavy rainfall has shifted into Texas, reports AccuWeather.com.

Soon after, Manuel weakened to a tropical storm and then it weakened to a tropical rainstorm Thursday evening as its center tracked northeastward over mainland Mexico. The moisture from Manuel has now been pulled northeast into Texas.

 In total, over 100,000 were affected by the hurricane, announced State governor Mario Lopez Valdez.

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