The Category 5 hurricane damaged nearly all of Acapulco's homes, left bodies bobbing along the coastline and much of the city foraging for food. She and hundreds of thousands others lived two hours of terror last week, and now face years of work to repair their already precarious lives. Living in a two-room concrete house with no potable water and unpaved roads, that glamor never reached their doorstep. —Otis intensified within hours from a tropical storm into the strongest hurricane to hit the Eastern Pacific coast, taking many by surprise. García Ramirez and other fishermen pulled the boats onto the city’s Manzanilla Beach when Otis was still a Category 2 storm.

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