Mexicans wake up to damage caused by Hurricane Lidia after 'horrible' night

Lidia has been downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane leaving at least one dead and headed northeast across the country according to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC).

Ahead of its arrival the government deployed around 6,000 members of the armed forces to help residents, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.  Lidia came ashore near the popular beach resort of Puerto Vallarta, packing maximum sustained winds of around 140 miles per hour.

The storm had quickly strengthened to the second-highest category on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale before reaching land.But by early Wednesday, its maximum sustained winds had dropped to 70 miles per hour and it was expected to rapidly lose strength, the NHC said.