"ACAPULCO, Mexico — Hurricane Otis tore across Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful and dangerous Category 5 hurricane Wednesday, unleashing massive flooding in the resort city of Acapulco and setting off looting as desperate relatives tired of waiting for help to arrive.
While little is known about possible deaths or the full extent of the damage — Acapulco was still mostly inaccessible by road as of late Wednesday — experts are calling Otis the strongest storm in history to make landfall along the Eastern Pacific Coast.
Many of the once sleek beachfront hotels looked like toothless shattered hulks, after Hurricane Otis blew out hundreds — and possibly thousands — of hotel windows."
Mark Stevenson and María Verza report for the Associated Press October 25, 2023.
SEE ALSO:
"Hurricane Otis Pummels Mexico's Acapulco, Cutting Off Famous Beach Resort" (Reuters)
"A ‘Nightmare Scenario’ Hurricane Batters Mexico’s Western Coast" (New York Times)
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