Poor buggers. A severe weather system is always destructive, but when they hit in areas that have never seen them before it goes from catastrophic to apocalyptic. The Philippines, for example, are used to being hit with massive cyclones, so while there are always casualties because it's an impoverished shithole, they know how handle themselves and how to pick themselves back up after the sky clears. The Mexicans don't have this knowledge, and even very smart people are at risk of doing stupid shit because they've never been in that situation before, and in disaster events there's a lot of shit that's wildly counter intuitive.
I hope that whatever benevolent supernatural entities are with them, because they are going to need a lot of miracles.
