With a huff and a puff, Mother Nature has blown down a part of US President Donald Trump's fence on the border with Mexico.
About 40m of the fence came down in 48km/h winds, which rank as a 'strong breeze' on the Beaufort wind force scale. It landed on trees lining a street in Mexicali, a town on the border with California's Celixico.
"Luckily, Mexican authorities responded quickly and were able to divert traffic from the nearby street," a US Border Patrol agent told the Los Angeles Times.
The section had been placed in its foundation, but the concrete hadn't yet settled.
No one was hurt.
The US has to date constructed about 160km of the wall, which Trump said would be paid for by Mexico. So far it's only replaced existing border structures - no new sections have been completed.
Nearly US$10 billion has been secured to pay for the wall, which is expected to cover about half the border between the two countries if completed, with natural obstacles - such as the Rio Grande - covering the rest. Mexico hasn't put up a cent.
Estimates of the total cost have ranged from that to as high as $70 billion.
Apprehensions at the border doubled last year to 800,000, but that's only half the figure that used to cross annually 20 years ago.
