Government workers and volunteers cleared streets and gas station lines were long for what gas was available as a more organized relief operation takes shape.
Government workers and volunteers cleared streets, gas station lines wrapped around the block, and some lucky families found food essentials as a more organized relief operation took shape Saturday in Acapulco, four days after it was slammed by Hurricane Otis. The Category 5 storm’s destruction cut off the city of nearly 1 million people for the first day and it intensified so quickly Tuesday that little to no preparation had been staged in advance.
“Even though it isn’t much, it’s something,” he said as he walked down the winding mountain highway toward the city center. A group of volunteers from the central state of Puebla who scraped together money to help out people in the city were handing out bags of food to families like Mendoza’s gathered on the side of the highway. Abel Montoya, 67, had been waiting in line for gasoline with hundreds of others for an hour and a half Saturday holding an empty jug.
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