Hurricane Adrian sets El Salvador on Emergency Alert

The most unusual top tropical storm hit El Salvador's coast.
The officials declared a state of emergency.
Hurricane Adrain hit west of Puerto La Libertad, close to capital San Salvador and washed out everything in its way, unleashing heavy rains that might cause severe flooding.
Power went off, the schools were closed, and 14.000 citizens were asked to obey official evacution requests as Adrian is feared as an atypical storm.
Guatemala has no record of such a hurricane landing in El Salvador or Guatemala's Pacific coast since 1949, according to US Hurricane Centre.
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Other tropical storms such as Atlantic storm Mitch, that devastated the country in 1998, arriving from the Caribbean, have enterd El Salvador after passing over Honduras.
Most Pacific storms went parallel to the coastline, edging out to sea or heading towards Mexico.
Hurricane Adrian gathered heavy winds of almost 130 km/hour and rains that could reach 450mm and might cause flooding and landslides.
Guatemala has declared an orange alert for all the provinces near the pacific Coast, Honduras set red alert for its central, western and southern areas, but green alert for the rest of the territory, planning to evacuate 160.000 people, and Nicaragua is on green alert as well.