ACAPULCO: Mexican authorities rushed to send emergency aid, restore communications and assess damage in the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco on Wednes...
View of the damage caused after the passage of Hurricane Otis in Chilpancingo, Guerrero state, Mexico on October 25, 2023. AFPPIX: Mexican authorities rushed to send emergency aid, restore communications and assess damage in the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco on Wednesday after a powerful hurricane left a trail of destruction.
Images emerging via social media pointed to significant damage after Hurricane Otis came ashore overnight as a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 storm. A convoy carrying humanitarian aid also set off to try to reach the city by land since it was impossible to fly there, authorities said. “Rarely, according to records, does a hurricane develop so quickly and with such force,“ Lopez Obrador said.Videos posted on social media showed severely damaged hotels and other buildings, including shattered windows.Others took refuge in bathrooms.
Heavy rains continued to deluge Guerrero and parts of neighboring Oaxaca -- two of Mexico's poorest states, home to remote mountain communities. In October 1997, Hurricane Pauline hit Mexico's Pacific coast as a Category 4 storm, leaving more than 200 people dead, some of them in Acapulco.In October 2015, Patricia became the most powerful hurricane ever recorded, pummeling Mexico's Pacific coast with sustained winds of 200 miles per hour.
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