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Best look at Acapulco after Otis so far (Original Post) Warpy Oct 2023 OP
Whoa... likesmountains 52 Oct 2023 #1
Slum enid602 Oct 2023 #3
There are multiple landslides in the area Warpy Oct 2023 #4
Horrible Demovictory9 Oct 2023 #2

enid602

(8,745 posts)
3. Slum
Wed Oct 25, 2023, 09:38 PM
Oct 2023

There’s a very large neighborhood just about inland from there; very poor and full of precarious houses. It was probably badly damaged.

Warpy

(111,730 posts)
4. There are multiple landslides in the area
Wed Oct 25, 2023, 09:58 PM
Oct 2023

that are blocking the roads. The airport is unusable. That's one reason it has taken so long to get an idea of the damage.

We got an idea. It's catastrophic.

Most likely the area the workers live in was saved from the surge, but the toll of injured and dead is likely to be high if they didn't manage to make it to a substantial building instead of being trapped at home.

This thing went from a piddling little tropical storm to a Cat 5 in 12 hours and no weather model predicted it.

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