Hurricane Otis killed at least 27 people in Mexico: It was one of the strongest events to hit the country. seaside resort acapulco It is in ruins, there is at least 15 billion dollars of damage. Otis It flooded the streets, “ripped off” the roofs of houses and hotels, uprooted trees, submerged cars and cut off communications. Four people are still missing. I vassets reached 266 km per hour.
“Like an earthquake”
A citizen by name Erik Lozoya told the ad Associated press He described enduring “three hours of terror” with his wife and two daughters in an Acapulco hotel room as the tornado shattered windows and ripped through the building with deafening intensity: “It literally felt like our ears were going to explode,” he said. “We saw mattresses and water tanks flying. The ceiling started to collapse.”
Citlali Portillo, who works in the tourism sector in Acapulco, told Televisa TV about the moments when “the building shook as if there was an earthquake.”
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Otis was one of the strongest “storms” to hit Mexico’s Pacific coast, but Hurricane Patricia, which hit the resort town of Puerto Vallarta eight years ago, had higher offshore wind speeds. Otis was devastating on the field.The moment of impact reached category 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (which indicates the maximum strength a hurricane can reach).
Mexico is taking action. Approximately 8,400 Army, Air Force and National Guard members were deployed in and around Acapulco (population 900,000) for initial operations. clearing debris and providing food and water to residents. Many shops were looted.
The local economy is heavily dependent on tourism, and Otis has caused extensive damage to some of the most famous hotels on the city’s waterfront: 80 percent of the hotels in the city were affected by the storm. Telmex, the telecommunications company controlled by the family of businessman Carlos Slim, said on Thursday morning that it had reestablished its network in Acapulco. Local mobile phone service was gradually restored. We’re trying to start over.
But the alert remains high: Mexico’s meteorological service warned that heavy rains are heading towards Guerrero, and that Michoacán, Morelos and Oaxaca will also experience very heavy rainfall. These are the poorest parts of the country.
precedent 26 years ago
On October 9, 1997, more than two hundred people died in Acapulco during the passage of Category Four Hurricane Paulina. Hurricanes remain one of the most serious natural disasters to hit Mexico, excluding earthquakes. Last week, Hurricane Norma killed three people in the northwestern state of Sinaloa.
Facing the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, Mexico is subject to hurricanes between May and November. Both the frequency and intensity of hurricanes are increasing due to the warming of the ocean surface.
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