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  1. Just to remember, #HurricaneOtis made landfall as a Category 5 #hurricane on October 25, last year, while all models expected it to be at most Category 1.
    Otis devastated the resort city of #Acapulco leaving an estimated 350 casualties.

  2. 😭😭😭😭

    #ImageOfTheDay

    3 weeks after #HurricaneOtis, #Acapulco 🇲🇽 is struggling to get back to normal

    The devastating 🌀 has not only affected infrastructure, but also vegetation

    The🌳have been wiped out, as shown in these #Sentinel2 images acquired before & after #Otis

  3. Documenting Hurricane Otis Relief Efforts in Acapulco, Mexico: special report from team member Fabiola, originally from Mexico, who returned to her home region to assist in relief efforts

    proofmode.org/blog/hurricane-o

    #proofmode #c2pa #mexico #acapulco #hurricaneotis #guardianproject
    #proof

  4. Goodbye Acapulco: 205 mph Winds destroy 80% of Infrastructure, do $18 bn of Damage in Climate Change Warning
    juancole.com/2023/11/acapulco-

    "Iván Cabrera at N+ reports that the megastorm destroyed 80% of the city’s infrastructure, leaving the inhabitants without light, electricity, communications or internet. Some 274,000 homes and 600 hotels were affected ..."

    #HurricaneOtis #Acapulco #ClimateCrisis

  5. On the site formerly classified as avian, David Wallace-Wells wrote:

    "Acapulco is now in ruins from Hurricane Otis, the first category 5 hurricane ever to make landfall on the Pacific coast. A day before, no hurricane was even forecast or formal warning issued; Otis went from tropical storm to Cat 5 disaster in 18 hours."

    My response was this:

    We think just heat. Think instead energy, power, volatility, unpredictability, patterns breaking, records broken, intuitions violated.

    Climate snaps routine.
    We expect worse, yet change shocks.
    Change is worse than worse.

    That haiku/senryu was originally published at Mastodon [1], and has some accompanying notes that might help you better understand it, but the 'TL;DR' of it all is basically this:

    We think 'getting worse' means 'same but slower/pricier', harder but same-shaped, that jobs'll pay less but we'll be employed, that stores'll cost more but we'll still shop, that far-off lands'll suffer, but we'll still travel or see on net.

    Will we?

    Climate changes.

    [1] climatejustice.social/@kentpit

    #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #storm #HurricaneOtis #Acapulco

  6. Before/After closeup of Acapulco after Hurricane Otis using Sentinel-2 satellite. #HurricaneOtis #disaster #otis #hurricane #Mexico

  7. Satellite view of Acapulco on October 28, 2023, after Hurricane Otis. Sentinel-2 satellite. #acapulco #satellite #disaster #HurricaneOtis

  8. WaPo: Hurricane Otis produced 205 mph gust, among strongest ever measured
    Ferocious wind reported in Acapulco is preliminary but would rank among top 10 highest on record if confirmed #HurricaneOtis #Otis #Hurricane #Mexico #Acapulco #hurricanes #cyclones washingtonpost.com/weather/202

  9. Very emotional interview with a survivor of Otis (in Spanish). Her house destroyed, her sister is missing, the family needs medicine, etc. (via Milenio). #HurricaneOtis #Otis #Hurricane #disaster #cyclones youtube.com/watch?v=JAVF3f4WPq

  10. From @KimPerales

    World Central Kitchen is working to support Acapulco & the surrounding areas after the destruction from #HurricaneOtis. "We’re bringing helicopters full of food & water every day to communities while we're also bringing in more restaurants to help! Volunteers, Chefs, military, water & electricity teams all working around the clock! …"
    -Chef Jose Andres

    #ChefsForMexico

    To donate: donate.wck.org/give/499865/

  11. "With so much more work to do on governmental and societal changes to drastically curb greenhouse-gas pollution, you might think Hurricane Otis and its assault on Acapulco would be a tipping point. But then you might have thought that about the Maui wildfire, or the choking wildfire smoke that darkened the eastern U.S., or any of the other floods or calamities that struck in the summer of 2023, as Planet Earth shattered all-time temperature records." #climate #disasters #HurricaneOtis

  12. Hurricane #Otis
    #HurricaneOtis
    Hurricane Otis in Mexico 🇲🇽
    【 Acapulco is struggling to recover from powerful Hurricane Otis, which claimed the lives of at least 100 people across southern Mexico.

    Around 17,000 soldiers and police have been deployed to the resort city where there has been widespread looting. 】

    x.com/dwnews/status/1719220349

  13. Hurricane #Otis
    #HurricaneOtis
    Hurricane Otis in Mexico 🇲🇽
    【 La gobernadora de Guerrero, Evelyn Salgado, actualizó el número de víctimas por el huracán Otis; se mantiene el número de 46 personas fallecidas en tanto hay 58 desaparecidas. #EstrictamentePersonal con @rivapa | #SiempreEnVivo | #SiempreContigo | Sigue la señal en vivo por nmas.com.mx/foro-tv

    x.com/foro_tv/status/171935326

  14. @breadandcircuses @elizkolbert #HurricaneOtis should have been the lead story in every news outlet. Going from Tropical Storm strength to Category 5 in 12 hours is breathtaking -- and makes preparation (or evacuation of highly populated areas) close to impossible.