By EFE
25 Oct 2023, 7:53 PM EDT
The Government of Mexico reported this Wednesday damage to the main roads in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, between Chilpancingo and Acapulcor, after the passage of Hurricane Otis, which made landfall in the early morning as a category 5, one of the most powerful cyclones in history.
The damage has caused the closure of circulation by ehe overflowing of a river and falling rocks so much of the state’s southern coast remains incommunicado.
“The Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation makes a careful call to the general public to avoid traffic on the Mexico-Acapulco highway, Chilpancingo-Acapulco sectionkilometer 360+000 near the La Venta booth, since there is a total closure to circulation, there is no alternative route,” the agency reported in a bulletin.
The meteorological phenomenon, the SICT added, caused the overflow of the Papagayo River at kilometer 71+100 of the free federal highway Chilpancingo-Acapulco toll road, so it was closed in its entirety.
In addition, it reported the fall of rocks on Route 95, Chilpancingo-Acapulco highway at kilometers 56+300 right side, 57+300 left side and 58+100 side, which affected the municipalities of Chilpancingo and Tierra Colorada.
Given the situation, The SICT deployed more than 900 workers, 60 vehicles and more than 200 pieces of heavy machinery.
The team stated that it has more than 50 technical engineers, as well as tractors, backhoes, motoshapers, front-end energy loaders, compactors and dump trucks, to restore “vehicular circulation as soon as possible and provide security to users.”
Hurricane Otis, which made landfall this Wednesday as a category 5 hurricane on the coast of the state of Guerrero, It weakened at noon into a tropical storm, but in its wake it had already left the area incommunicado.
In less than 24 hours, Otis went from being a tropical storm to a category 5 hurricane, the highest of these natural phenomena, heading towards the coast of Guerrero, where communication “was completely lost,” so it is still The damage cannot be quantified, according to the president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
According to the Federal Electricity Commission, the meteor caused more than half a million people to be left without electricity, in addition to mobile communication being affected.
The president also reported that he sent the heads of the Secretariat of National Defense, the Navy, Security and Citizen Protection, Communications and Transportation, and the National Coordination of Civil Protection to the area.
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