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Photos: ‘Nightmare Scenario’ as Powerful Category 5 Hurricane Otis Slams Into Mexico
Photos: ‘Nightmare Scenario’ as Powerful Category 5 Hurricane Otis Slams Into Mexico
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Hurricane Otis made landfall on Wednesday as a Category 5 cyclone, coming ashore near Mexico's Acapulco with 165 miles per hour winds. Just 24 hours earlier, the storm had been a Category 1 with winds of just 75 miles per hour.
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Otis’ rapid intensification in the warm Pacific waters off Mexico’s western coast was described by the US National Hurricane Center as “a nightmare scenario,” noting only one other storm had ever been observed to intensify so quickly: Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Making landfall at peak strength on Wednesday, Otis became the most powerful hurricane to ever strike Mexico.As Otis was bearing down on the Guerrero state, authorities readied hundreds of shelters to accept displaced persons and Mexico City mobilized 8,000 troops to the area to assist with rescue and recovery efforts.Footage posted on social media from Acapulco showed the resort city of 687,000 suffered heavy damage from the cyclone. The city’s iconic Miguel Alemán Coastal Boulevard was strewn with uprooted trees and debris from nearby buildings, and widespread flooding was evident.According to the Mexican government, efforts to get help to the region were frustrated by the damage to Acapulco airport. For several hours after landfall, communication was “completely lost,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters, and electricity was almost totally knocked out across the Guerrero state.There were no official estimates or reports of deaths when this story went to publication.
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Photos: ‘Nightmare Scenario’ as Powerful Category 5 Hurricane Otis Slams Into Mexico
Hurricane Otis made landfall in western Mexico on Wednesday as a Category 5 cyclone, coming ashore near Acapulco with sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. Just 24 hours earlier, the storm had been a Category 1 storm with winds of just 75 miles per hour.
Otis’ rapid intensification in the warm Pacific waters off Mexico’s western coast was described by the US National Hurricane Center as “a nightmare scenario,” noting only one other storm had ever been observed to intensify so quickly: Hurricane Patricia in 2015.
Making landfall at peak strength on Wednesday, Otis became the most powerful hurricane to ever strike Mexico.
As Otis was bearing down on the Guerrero state, authorities readied hundreds of shelters to accept displaced persons and Mexico City mobilized 8,000 troops to the area to assist with rescue and recovery efforts.
Within hours of landfall, however, Otis weakened to a tropical storm with 60 mile-per-hour winds after passing over the Sierra Madre del Sur mountains, but its storm bands continued to dump buckets of rain across the region. Some areas could receive 20 inches of rain.
Footage posted on social media from Acapulco showed the resort city of 687,000 suffered heavy damage from the cyclone. The city’s iconic Miguel Alemán Coastal Boulevard was strewn with uprooted trees and debris from nearby buildings, and widespread flooding was evident.
According to the Mexican government, efforts to get help to the region were frustrated by the damage to Acapulco airport. For several hours after landfall, communication was “completely lost,” Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told reporters, and electricity was almost totally knocked out across the Guerrero state.
There were no official estimates or reports of deaths when this story went to publication.
