Hurricane Otis - Sudden category 5 hurricane to hit Southern Mexico

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BelUwUga said:
If they're generally OTR it makes sense. ~6 ton cargo capacity compared to a MTV's 2.5-5 ton. Depending on configurations you're talking about 1-2 tons lower curb weight too. No air brakes, gross weight under 26K pounds. Even stateside you don't need specialized qualifications to drive it. You're not locked in to military production for parts. Ford may put them together in Louisville but they've got plenty of parts production in Mexico. Hell many mechanics have even figured out how to unfuck the disaster that is the 6.7 engine.
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Something I never see is that people forget that the Mexicans also have a love for just rebuilding old shit. No joke. You go to Mexico? You'll see old cars restored. I've seen a 1986 Impala out there tricked out with a brand spanking new paint job and engine. Similarly, the Military is often under threats from congress who have their many agendas. For example. Mexico is buying Blackhawks for SAR. These Blackhawks are utility sure, but they're also quite easily at being able to get a group of guys in, and then provide those guys with fire support.

That also helps with the Mexican Airforce with having more helicopters to be able to swoop in and airlift people for emergency response. What people FORGET about Mexico is that unlike Puerto Rico, we still have functioning EMS' and SAR crews. Otherwise why send any firefighters to California when those wildfires happened?

The Military is designed in such a way for the common defense of Mexican sovereign territory and security for the well being of the people. (granted. Mexico is shitty at this. They are at least a lot better than any country south of their borders as they can at least conduct SAR and all that). Part of their job is to be able to respond in emergency natural disasters. Acapulco, as shitty as the situation is, should be fine within a couple of months but certainly incapacitated for a time.

This is for why the Mexican military has so many of these logistical trucks, multipurpose, etc. They need to be able to provide the people with ample support during these times and that often translates to Mexican soldiers or Guardia Nacional to be out there wading through flood waters to save everyone they can and as safely as they can. Most Mexican buildings are concrete. The ones that aren't, often wash away. Sometimes it can also just be erosion that wears and tears.

All in all, Mexico should be able to bounce back from this unlike Puerto Rico which suffered for months because they're retarded fake-Hispanics.
 
As long as the government in Mexico doesn't bungle the response to this disaster like the US bungled up Katrina I fully expect Mexico to move forward and beyond this disaster and recover. Loss of life while unfortunate as long as response is appropriate and proportional should be over all fairly minimal. Mexico is not immune to hurricanes and sees them frequently on the east coast and the western coast often gets them as well.
 
This is why I don´t like Acapulco...or Guerrero, or Mexic....

OK, enough, now being serious, it could be much much much worse, and I´m refering to human lives, thank god that, one of the few things that really works here in tacoland, are the evacuation and rescue services for natural disasters, for what I know from the news, only 2 people died, and one was a fisherman
 
8,400 Air and National Guard are present in Acapulco conducting SAR. Due to Otis, landslides have occurred which did hinder the SAR teams but its expected to clear the main highway by Thursday (today).

Class is still cancelled in Guerrero (the State that Acapulco is in)

Mexican soldiers and the likes are working to restore electricity, restore the phone lines, and reactivate the water pumps with as many as 300,000 without water.
 
Aftermath footage in Acapulco source
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A Wumpa Fruit said:
This is why I don´t like Acapulco...or Guerrero, or Mexic....

OK, enough, now being serious, it could be much much much worse, and I´m refering to human lives, thank god that, one of the few things that really works here in tacoland, are the evacuation and rescue services for natural disasters, for what I know from the news, only 2 people died, and one was a fisherman
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I mean Mexico for all it's flaws has had to deal with natural disasters I mean if you get a climate like theirs expect some compromises. But as long as the response is in point and people work together to rebuild and stop whining I expect things to be back to normal by the end of the week.
Major von der Westfront said:
8,400 Air and National Guard are present in Acapulco conducting SAR. Due to Otis, landslides have occurred which did hinder the SAR teams but its expected to clear the main highway by Thursday (today).

Class is still cancelled in Guerrero (the State that Acapulco is in)

Mexican soldiers and the likes are working to restore electricity, restore the phone lines, and reactivate the water pumps with as many as 300,000 without water.
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the sooner you get those things restored the sooner you will see things get back to normal. Mexico might be a corrupt shithole but for God's sake they have internal plumbing and electricity. Even cartel haciendas still want to have the city their cartel works in to have electricity as it's better for businesses if teachers teach, cooks cook, tourists spend their dough and everyone returns to normal.
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Aftermath footage in Acapulco source
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Oh boy the insurance companies will have a field day trying to recoup losses from this.
 
LeChampion1992 said:
sooner you get those things restored the sooner you will see things get back to normal. Mexico might be a corrupt shithole but for God's sake they have internal plumbing and electricity. Even cartel haciendas still want to have the city their cartel works in to have electricity as it's better for businesses if teachers teach, cooks cook, tourists spend their dough and everyone returns to normal.
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Aye, this is key and it'll likely take a few days. Mexican Emergency Response has been good for a while especially considering they're able to go abroad and help other countries out (like with Japan's Tsunami in 2011 or in Turkey where they had that earthquake which killed a rescue dog.

Cartels wish they could do it but they are too busy fighting the Mexican security services, smoking crack, and trying to get into the government fully.
 
Major von der Westfront said:
Aye, this is key and it'll likely take a few days. Mexican Emergency Response has been good for a while especially considering they're able to go abroad and help other countries out (like with Japan's Tsunami in 2011 or in Turkey where they had that earthquake which killed a rescue dog.

Cartels wish they could do it but they are too busy fighting the Mexican security services, smoking crack, and trying to get into the government fully.
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I mean more likely if anything cartels and the government are working together to get supplies across as it's good pr for both. If anything the Yakuza gained great pr during the tsunami in Japan. I fully expect the cartels to do something similar because of the Sinaloa cartel can get drugs into the most secure jail in America they can get food and supplies to standed tourists in their country. Besides they can use building good pr to further their reputation as noble robin hoods stealing from the government then murderous outlaws and thieves.
 
As a citizen of the American state of Hawaii, this thread is showing me that a corrupt underdeveloped cartel-ridden third world shithole that is Mexico can react to and mount a far more competent and effective sudden catastrophic disaster response than my home.

That's how fucking bad it is here. Maybe it's time to jump the wall southwards.
 
I have only ever been to northern Mexico. But if the typical houses down there are like the ones up north(block or poured cement) I am not surprised the death toll is so low. All the damage porn looks like its the cheesy highrise sheet rock/glass stuff right on the water.
 
Jump said:
I have only ever been to northern Mexico. But if the typical houses down there are like the ones up north(block or poured cement) I am not surprised the death toll is so low. All the damage porn looks like its the cheesy highrise sheet rock/glass stuff right on the water.
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Yeah Mexican construction is block, cement, things like that. It is sturdy unlike what you'd usually see in the US with wooden houses. There's too many doomers thinking that the Mexicans are gonna suffer total beaner death.
 
Why did they name an extremely deadly hurricane after this guy:
A security guard named Otis from the video game Half-Life.
Edit: I learned to read
 
glass_houses said:
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.
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There are no smart people in Mexico.
 
Major von der Westfront said:
Yeah Mexican construction is block, cement, things like that. It is sturdy unlike what you'd usually see in the US with wooden houses. There's too many doomers thinking that the Mexicans are gonna suffer total beaner death.
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It also really helps that Mexico's western coast is narrow relative to the very steep foothills of the Mexican Plateau.

Not much knocks down a hurricane or supercell's strength faster than slamming into a mountain range.
 
One guy in that article think then Hurricane Otis is to Andres Lopez-Obrador to what Hurricane Katrina was to Dubya.
October 30, 2023

Madness in Acapulco​

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

It's not fair to blame the hurricane on President Andres Lopez-Obrador, but he is getting the blame. As President Bush learned with Katrina, those local governments can make you look really bad. Things are not going well, especially now that looting is everywhere. This is the story:
Looting ravaged the Mexican city of Acapulco after the iconic beach resort was hammered this week by Hurricane Otis, a record-breaking storm that killed at least 27 people and left thousands of residents struggling to get food and water.
Otis pounded Acapulco with winds of 165 miles per hour (266 km per hour) early on Wednesday, flooding the city, tearing roofs from homes, stores and hotels, submerging vehicles, and severing communications as well as road and air connections.
The cost of devastation left by the Category 5 storm was estimated at billions of dollars, and over 8,000 armed forces members were sent to help the stricken port recover.
"Right now, money's no use to us because there's nothing to buy, everything's been looted," 57-year-old Acapulco resident Rodolfo Villagomez said after Otis tore through the city. "It was total chaos. You could hear it here hissing like a bull."
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It's a mess. We heard Sunday morning that people went to sleep knowing that there was a tropical storm in the neighborhood. They suddenly woke up to broken windows and things flying everywhere. One family hid in the bathroom. Others found some protection in the staircasess connecting the floors of apartment buildings. One friend said that the Princess, a very popular hotel for tourists, was demolished.
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