A day after Hurricane Otis roared ashore in Acapulco, a lack of basic communication has made even a preliminary assessment of its toll impossible to ascertain.
Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane on Wednesday, bringing 165 mph winds and heavy rain to Acapulco and nearby towns. .People walk with goods looted from a shopping mall after Hurricane Otis ripped through Acapulco, Mexico, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
Jakob Sauczuk was staying with a group of friends at a beachfront hotel when Otis hit. “We laid down on the floor, and some between beds,” Sauczuk said. “We prayed a lot.” “I took shelter in the bathroom, and thankfully the door held,” said Navarro. “But there were some room where the wind blew out the windows and the doors.”
Large buildings had their walls and roofs partially or completely ripped off. Dislodged solar panels, cars and debris littered the lobby of one severely damaged hotel. People wandered up to their waists in water in some areas, while on other less-flooded streets soldiers shoveled rubble and fallen palm fronds from the pavement.
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