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