Acapulco In Ruins

Created
Fri, 27/10/2023 - 03:00
Updated
Fri, 27/10/2023 - 03:00
A Category 5 hurricane hit the city and nobody saw it coming OMG this is the Princess hotel in Acapulco. That’s some serious damage!!! 😫#HurricaneOtis #HurracanOtis #Otis #Acapulco #México pic.twitter.com/MWauoK1bbG — Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) October 25, 2023 Whoahhh! Jeeeze!! This video really shows how bad the situation is in Acapulco 😭💔 📹 Jorge Martíne#HurricaneOtis #HurracanOtis #Otis #Acapulco #Mexico pic.twitter.com/XboA3EYoCM — Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) October 25, 2023 I didn’t see one news report about any of that yesterday on cable. (I sure am glad I got to hear hour after hour of lying Republicans instead.) Anyway, it’s a good thing global warming is a hoax or this sort of thing might be a problem: Hurricane Otis, a tropical storm that strengthened suddenlyinto the most powerful cyclone known to have hit Mexico’s Pacific Coast,slammed into the tourist resort of Acapulco on Wednesday and battered nearby beach communities. The hurricane’s 165-mph winds shattered windows, rattled tall buildings and snapped power and telephone lines. There were no immediate reports of deaths — but there was no communication from the areas that were hit hardest. Telephone and internet service was cut, and major roads were flooded or covered by landslides. “We’ve completely lost contact,” President Andrés Manuel López Obrador told journalists hours after the storm’s landfall at 12:25 a.m. local time. “We just don’t know.” The Category 5 hurricane disrupted electrical service, plunging beachside hotel rooms in Acapulco into darkness. Guests threw mattresses over shattered windows and scrambled into bathrooms to protect themselves, videos shared on…