 Local authorities told people to evacuate. Residents boarded up windows, stocked up on supplies, some filled up on gas as they fled town. Barrel battered Mexico as a Category 2 hurricane last week, toppling trees but causing no injuries or deaths before weakening to a tropical storm as it moved across the Yucatan Peninsula. Before hitting Mexico, Barrel wrought destruction in Jamaica, Barbados, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.