Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave ACAPULCO, Mexico — Before Hurricane Otis tore through this once-famed Pacific Coast resort, the Las Olas luxury condominium complex was already expecting a dismal turnout for this Día de los Muertos weekend. The wealthy owners of the oceanfront vacation homes were too afraid to visit. Not long … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave ACAPULCO, Mexico — As the winds grew more insistent and the waves jerked his boat, Demetrio Felipe made a last phone call to his wife at home. He urged her to close the windows and stay inside. The ocean was getting ugly, the yacht captain told her. … Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico — More resources are arriving on Mexico’s battered Pacific coast, and the death toll from Hurricane Otis is growing as searchers recover more bodies from Acapulco’s harbor and under fallen trees and other storm debris. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Saturday that his opponents are trying to inflate the toll to damage … Read more
STORY: Reuters drone footage showed on Friday (October 27) people carrying off goods including food, water and toilet paper from stores after residents were left to grapple with shortages of food and water. Video also shows sections of buildings peeled off in the Barra Vieja neighborhood, northeast of Acapulco. Otis pummeled the city with winds … Read more
ByThe Associated Press October 27, 2023, 12:42 PM A traffic sign lays on a car after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. Hurricane Otis ripped through Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful Category 5 storm, unleashing massive flooding, ravaging roads and leaving large swaths of the southwestern state of Guerrero … Read more
ACAPULCO, Mexico — Survivors of a Category 5 storm that killed at least 27 people as it devastated Mexico’s resort city of Acapulco spent Thursday searching for acquaintances and necessities and hoping that aid would come quickly in the wake of Hurricane Otis. The Pacific storm had strengthened with shocking swiftness before slamming into the … Read more
(ACAPULCO, Mexico) — 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. Federal Security Secretary Rosa Icela Rodríguez … Read more
MONTERREY, Mexico — At least 27 people were killed as Hurricane Otis crashed near Acapulco, a system that rapidly intensified into the most powerful cyclone on record to have hit Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Mexican Security Minister Rosa Icela Rodriguez said at least four people were also still missing in Acapulco after the unexpectedly intense storm … Read more
Comment on this storyCommentAdd to your saved storiesSave Hurricane Otis made landfall near Acapulco, Mexico, early Wednesday as a Category 5 hurricane with 165 mph winds, the product of the most extreme storm intensification on record in the northeast Pacific Ocean. “A nightmare scenario is unfolding for southern Mexico,” the National Hurricane Center wrote in … Read more