Hurricane Odile has left streets flooded, and homes and packed hotels destroyed in the beach resorts of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, triggering looting in some areas.
The storm has eased since Sunday from category four to one but still packed winds of up to 160km/h (100 mph).
Mexican authorities are warning of more landslides and flooding in the coming days, as the storm moves northwest.
They have also prepared shelter for some 30,000 people.
"The whole place is devastated, windows are trashed, trees and electricity poles are down," Mauricio Balderrama, manager of the Cabo Surf Hotel and Spa in San Jose del Cabo told Reuters, but confirmed his hotel guests were fine.
Houses destroyed by Hurricane Odile in Los Cabos, Mexico, on 15 September 2014. People salvage remains from houses destroyed by Hurricane Odile in Los Cabos
Tourists in Los Cabos, Mexico, shelter from the effects of Hurricane Odile on 15 September 2014 On Monday thousands of tourists and locals emerged from hotel shelters to assess the damage.
On Monday dozens of people, including children, ransacked the shops for batteries and alcohol until troops arrived to stop the looting, agencies reported.
"I'm taking water for the children and food for the baby. You never know what can happen tomorrow," 41-year-old Osvaldo Lopez told reporters, as he left one convenience store.
Scores of homes have been damaged in one poor neighbourhood on the peninsula, where electricity poles collapsed onto cars but no-one was hurt, correspondents say.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami had predicted that Odile would be a category four hurricane, but it lost strength as it reached the coast.
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