Luxury homes and slums alike cover the city’s hillsides with views of the glistening Pacific. He said conditions were so bad that communication with the area had been “completely lost.”Īcapulco is a city of nearly 1 million people at the foot of steep mountains. Try viewing this in a modern browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer 9 or later.Īcapulco, Tecpan and other towns along the Costa Grande in Guerrero were hit hard, said Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Your browser does not support the iframe HTML tag. “It’s one thing to have a Category 5 hurricane make landfall somewhere when you’re expecting it or expecting a strong hurricane, but to have it happen when you’re not expecting anything to happen is truly a nightmare,” said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami. Researchers tracking the storm told The Associated Press that the storm broke records for how quickly it intensified, at a time when climate change has exacerbated devastating weather events like this one.

On Tuesday, Otis took many by surprise when it rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm to a powerful Category 5 as it tore along the coast.

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