Important Takeaways:
- Nearly 100 dead and missing in Mexico from hurricane -state governor
- The number of people dead and missing due to Hurricane Otis, a Category 5 storm which hammered the Mexican Pacific resort city of Acapulco last week, has risen to close to 100, authorities in the state of Guerrero said on Monday.
- Otis battered Acapulco with winds of 165 miles per hour (266 km per hour) on Wednesday, flooding the city, tearing roofs from homes, hotels and other businesses, submerging vehicles, and severing communications as well as road and air connections.
- Evelyn Salgado, governor of Acapulco’s home state of Guerrero, said 45 people were confirmed dead and 47 others were missing, citing figures from state prosecutors. Salgado had said on Sunday morning the death toll stood at 43.
- On Sunday afternoon, Mexico’s federal civil protection authorities said there were 48 dead, consisting of 43 in Acapulco and five in nearby Coyuca de Benitez.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Otis caused 27 confirmed deaths and left 4 missing, Mexican authorities report
- Mexican authorities gave the first human toll for Hurricane Otis’ destruction along the country’s Pacific coast Thursday: at least 27 dead and four missing.
- Tens of thousands of residents in damaged homes without electricity awaited help more than a day after Otis roared ashore in Acapulco.
- López Obrador said the destruction was so complete that not a single power line pole remained standing in the impact zone. Small farmers had their corn crops devastated by Otis’ wind and pounding rain, he said. Restoring power to the area was a top priority, he said.
- The early images and accounts were of extensive devastation, toppled trees and power lines lying in brown floodwaters that in some areas extended for miles. The resulting destruction delayed a comprehensive response by the government, which was still assessing the damage along the coast, and made residents desperate.
- Many of the once sleek beachfront hotels in Acapulco looked like toothless, shattered hulks after the Category 5 storm blew out hundreds — and possibly thousands — of windows
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Important Takeaways:
- Hurricane Otis strengthens into Mexico’s most powerful storm as the ‘catastrophic’ Category 5 barrels towards Acapulco
- Hurricane Otis intensified from a tropical storm to a dangerous Category 5 hurricane in a matter of hours as it drew near Mexico’s southern Pacific coast and was projected to cause catastrophic damage.
- The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Otis had maximum sustained winds of 160 miles per hour on Tuesday evening.
- It was centered about 55 miles south-southeast of Acapulco and moving north-northwest at 9 mph.
- ‘This is an extremely serious situation for the Acapulco metropolitan area with the core of the destructive hurricane likely to come near or over that large city early on Wednesday,’ the center said.
- ‘There are no hurricanes on record even close to this intensity for this part of Mexico.’
- Otis will likely die out over southern Mexico on Wednesday night.
- But the storm is anticipated to dump eight to 16 inches of rain on the country by the end of the week, with some areas seeing up to 20 inches.
- The heavy rainfall could lead to flash flooding as well as mudslides in areas with elevated terrain
- The Guerrero state government said it was preparing 396 shelters in anticipation of families being displaced by wind or water damage.
- Mexico’s army and navy sent more than 8,000 troops to the area to aid in rescues
- If Otis makes landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, it will be the first of its kind in the East Pacific.
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