Mexico’s Pacific coast was battered by 165mph winds and torrential rain on 25 October. Thousands lost their homes and many now have too little food or water to survive
n the small hours of Wednesday 25 October, Josefina Maldonado, a grandmother of two in her 60s who lives in the Renacimiento district of Acapulco, watched as the corrugated metal roof of her home flew into the sky, ripped off by 165mph winds. The family home and everything and everyone in it, including two terrified small children, were prey to the torrential rain and the horrors of the hurricane. Most of the furniture, including the beds, was swept away.
and killing at least 45 people, with dozens reported missing. The failure to warn of its intensity is widely accepted as one of theAccording to the centre, the climate crisis has altered water temperatures in the Pacific, making these kinds of quick accelerations more likely.
“People started fighting over the food, at first just yelling, and then pushing and punching one another, and the marines closed up and left,” says Maldonado. “They just decided they didn’t want to give it to us any more.” Preliminary assessments by local authorities released on Thursday suggest the storm destroyed as much as 80% of Acapulco’s hotels – which would be devastating for the region’s economy, an international tourist spot in one of Mexico’s poorest states.
The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, centre, and members of his cabinet visit the Kilómetro 42 community, 18 miles north of Acapulco in Guerrero state.The country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said this week that the armed forces would deliver all humanitarian aid so that civil organisations and local governments “wouldn’t try to profit from people’s necessity”.
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