Sunday, September 10, 2017
Friends good day... from Zipolite
Compañeros Buen Día... unos amigos van a ir mañana al istmo a ayudar y llevar víveres, están recolectando, les hace más falta agua embotellada, comida para bebe, ropa para bebe, y adultos, pañales, etc.
hoy van a pasar al nude a recogerlo, si alguien tiene la buena voluntad de ayudar se los vamos a agradecer.
Pueden pasar a dejarlo al nude hoy en el transcurso del día y hasta las 8 de la noche.
Solo en especie, no se acepta afectivo para evitar malos entendimientos.
...See Morehoy van a pasar al nude a recogerlo, si alguien tiene la buena voluntad de ayudar se los vamos a agradecer.
Pueden pasar a dejarlo al nude hoy en el transcurso del día y hasta las 8 de la noche.
Solo en especie, no se acepta afectivo para evitar malos entendimientos.
Friends good day... some friends are going tomorrow to the isthmus to help and bring food, they are collecting, they need more bottled water, baby food, baby clothes, and adults, diapers, etc.
Today they are going to go to the nude to pick it up, if anyone has the good will to help we will thank them.
You can stop by the nude today in the course of the day and until 8 o'clock.
Only in kind, do you not accept affection to avoid misunderstandings.
I think if something had happened to us a few days ago, someone else would be doing this work for us.
Hi friends, some people will be taking emergency supplies to Juchitan departing from NUDE BUNGALOWS TODAY AT 8 PM. No vash accepted only supplies: bottled water , baby food and clothing, diapers and adult clothing. I will be taking some things over to Nude at 7 pm if you wish to send anything with me.
If anyone is going to Bodega today please let me know!
If anyone goes to bodega today, let me know.
Today they are going to go to the nude to pick it up, if anyone has the good will to help we will thank them.
You can stop by the nude today in the course of the day and until 8 o'clock.
Only in kind, do you not accept affection to avoid misunderstandings.
I think if something had happened to us a few days ago, someone else would be doing this work for us.
Hi friends, some people will be taking emergency supplies to Juchitan departing from NUDE BUNGALOWS TODAY AT 8 PM. No vash accepted only supplies: bottled water , baby food and clothing, diapers and adult clothing. I will be taking some things over to Nude at 7 pm if you wish to send anything with me.
If anyone is going to Bodega today please let me know!
If anyone goes to bodega today, let me know.
Soldiers remove debris from a partly collapsed municipal building after an earthquake in Juchitan, Oaxaca
Soldiers remove debris from a partly collapsed municipal building after an earthquake in Juchitan, Oaxaca
ebris from a collapsed wall sits in Oaxaca, Mexico, after an earthquake early Friday
ebris from a collapsed wall sits in Oaxaca, Mexico, after an earthquake early Friday
Tropical triple threat: Hurricane Katia strikes Mexico and Jose looms as Irma threatens Florida
Tropical triple threat: Hurricane Katia strikes Mexico and Jose looms as Irma threatens Florida
Jason Samenow and Brian McNoldyWashington Post
Hurricane Irma is not the only show in town. Two other dangerous and strengthening hurricanes, Jose and Katia, are swirling in the Atlantic Ocean basin.
Jose, following a similar path to Irma in the eastern Atlantic, has grown into an extremely dangerous Category 4 hurricane with 150 mph winds. On Saturday, it could strike or at least brush some of the same islands in the northern Lesser Antilles decimated by Irma on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
Taking Irma and Jose together, this is the first time on record two storms in the tropical Atlantic Ocean have attained 150 mph winds at the same time.
Meanwhile, the peak winds of Hurricane Katia, centered over the southwest Gulf of Mexico, had reached 100 mph. It made landfall north of Tecolutla, Mexico, as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph on Friday night.
“Atlantic currently has 3 Cat. 2+ hurricanes at same time — 2nd time on record this has occurred & first time since 1893,” tweeted Phil Klotzbach, hurricane expert from Colorado State University.
Hurricane Jose
Jose has exceeded all expectations by explosively intensifying into a Category 4 storm — the third straight hurricane in 2017 to do so, following Harvey and Irma. This is the first time on record three straight storms have attained Category 4 or higher status, according to Klotzbach.
A hurricane watch was issued for Antigua, Barbuda, Aguilla, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy — many of the same islands devastated by Irma on Tuesday night and Wednesday.
If the storm tracks over these beleaguered islands, they could face destructive winds for the second time in four days and up to eight inches of rainfall.
The exact track of Jose is still somewhat in question, and there is a chance it could escape to the east of the already battered islands. But it’s too close to call.
After the storm passes the northern Leeward Islands, it will no longer be a threat to land areas, curling away from the United States, forecasters predict.
Hurricane Katia
Just as Jose was upgraded to a hurricane Wednesday afternoon, so was Katia. This system formed in the western Gulf of Mexico from a lingering disturbance earlier this week.
Katia made landfall north of Tecolutla, Mexico, as a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph late Friday.
A hurricane warning was out from Cabo Rojo to Laguna Verde. While a 5- to 7-foot storm surge and damaging winds are likely close to where this hurricane makes landfall, torrential rains will affect a much larger area.
“Katia is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 10 to 15 inches over northern Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo, and Puebla,” the Hurricane Center said. “Isolated maximum amounts of 25 inches are possible in northern Veracruz, eastern Hidalgo, Puebla, and San Luis Potosi. This rainfall will likely cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, especially in areas of mountainous terrain.”
Three hurricanes at the same time is highly unusual
Incredibly, all three of the active hurricanes in the Atlantic basin could affect land at the same time on Saturday: Irma over the Bahamas (and approaching Florida), Jose over the northeastern Leewards, and Katia in Mexico.
It is quite rare to have three simultaneous hurricanes. The last time this occurred was in 2010 with Hurricanes Igor, Julia and Karl. In an unlikely coincidence, these storms are almost in the same order and position as Irma, Jose and Katia, and have the same first three letters (I, J, K).
Copyright © 2017, Chicago Tribune
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/ct-mexico-earthquake-20170907-story.html
Deadly earthquake, Hurricane Katia a one-two punch for Mexico
Christopher ShermanAssociated Press
One of the most powerful earthquakes ever recorded in Mexico and a raging hurricane dealt a devastating one-two punch to the country, killing at least 61 people as workers scrambled to respond to the twin national emergencies.
The 8.1 quake off the southern Pacific coast just before midnight Thursday toppled hundreds of buildings in several states. Hardest-hit was Juchitan, Oaxaca, where 36 people died and a third of the city's homes collapsed or were uninhabitable, President Enrique Pena Nieto said late Friday in an interview with the Televisa news network.
In downtown Juchitan, the remains of brick walls and clay tile roofs cluttered streets as families dragged mattresses onto sidewalks to spend a second anxious night sleeping outdoors. Some were newly homeless, while others feared further aftershocks could topple their cracked adobe dwellings.
"We are all collapsed, our homes and our people," said Rosa Elba Ortiz Santiago, 43, who sat with her teenage son and more than a dozen neighbors on an assortment of chairs. "We are used to earthquakes, but not of this magnitude."
Even as she spoke, across the country, Hurricane Katia was roaring onshore north of Tecolutla in Veracruz state, pelting the region with intense rains and winds.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center reported Katia's maximum sustained winds had dropped to 75 mph when it made landfall. And it rapidly weakened even further over land into a tropical storm. The center said Katia was stalling over Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains, where it could bring 10 to 15 inches of rain to a region with a history of deadly mudslides and flooding.
The storm's maximum sustained winds were down to near 40 mph. It was expected to continue to dissipate over the course of Saturday.
Pena Nieto announced that the earthquake killed 45 people in Oaxaca state, 12 in Chiapas and 4 in Tabasco, and he declared three days of national mourning. The toll included 36 dead in Juchitan, located on the narrow waist of Oaxaca known as the Isthmus, where a hospital and about half the city hall also collapsed into rubble.
Next to Ortiz, 47-year-old Jose Alberto Martinez said he and family members have long been accustomed to earthquakes. So when the ground started moving, at first they simply waited a bit for it to stop — until objects began falling and they bolted for the street.
"We felt like the house was coming down on top of us," Martinez said, accompanied by his wife, son and mother-in-law.
Now, he didn't feel safe going back inside until the home is inspected. Right next door, an older building had crumbled into a pile of rough timbers, brick and stucco, while little remained of a white church on the corner.
Rescuers searched for survivors Friday with sniffer dogs and used heavy machinery at the main square to pull rubble away from city hall, where a missing police officer was believed to be inside.
The city's civil defense coordinator, Jose Antonio Marin Lopez, said similar searches had been going on all over the area.
Teams found bodies in the rubble, but the highlight was pulling four people, including two children, alive from the completely collapsed Hotel Del Rio where one woman died.
"The priority continues to be the people," Marin said.
Pena Nieto said authorities were working to re-establish supplies of water and food and provide medical attention to those who need it. He vowed the government would help rebuild.
"The power of this earthquake was devastating, but we are certain that the power of unity, the power of solidarity and the power of shared responsibility will be greater," Pena Nieto said.
Power was cut at least briefly to more than 1.8 million people, and authorities closed schools in at least 11 states to check them for safety.
The Interior Department reported that 428 homes were destroyed and 1,700 were damaged just in Chiapas, the state closest to the epicenter.
"Homes made of clay tiles and wood collapsed," said Nataniel Hernandez, a human rights worker living in Tonala, Chiapas, who worried that inclement weather threatened to bring more structures down.
"Right now it is raining very hard in Tonala, and with the rains it gets much more complicated because the homes were left very weak, with cracks," Hernandez said by phone.
The earthquake also jolted the Mexican capital, more than 650 miles away, which largely lies atop a former lakebed whose soil amplifies seismic waves. Memories are still fresh for many of a catastrophic quake that killed thousands and devastated large parts of the city in 1985.
Mexico City escaped major damage, though part of a bridge on a highway being built to a new international airport collapsed due to the earthquake, local media reported.
The quake's power was equal to Mexico's strongest in the past century, and it was slightly stronger than the 1985 quake, the U.S. Geological Survey said. However its impact was blunted somewhat by the fact that it struck some 100 miles offshore.
The epicenter was in a seismic hotspot in the Pacific where one tectonic plate dives under another. Such subduction zones are responsible for some of the biggest quakes in history, including the 2011 Fukushima disaster and the 2004 Sumatra quake that spawned a deadly tsunami.
In the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, tourists abandoned coastal hotels as winds and rains picked up ahead of Hurricane Katia's landfall and workers set up emergency shelters.
"The arrival of #Katia may be particularly dangerous for slopes affected by the earthquake. Avoid these areas," Pena Nieto tweeted.
Peter Orsi and Mark Stevenson in Mexico City contributed to this report
Quake death toll 65; Oaxaca worst hit Some 1,000 homes damaged in Isthmus city of Juchitán
Quake death toll 65; Oaxaca worst hit
Some 1,000 homes damaged in Isthmus city of Juchitán
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Sixty-five people are now reported dead across three states in southern Mexico after the 8.2-magnitude earthquake that struck off the country’s southern Pacific coast just before midnight Thursday.
Oaxaca recorded the highest toll with 46 deaths, mainly in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Thirty-seven of the fatalities were in Juchitán where the quake damaged around 1,000 homes and destroyed 50% of the 157-year-old municipal headquarters building. There are fears that people could be trapped beneath rubble.
The city’s general hospital was also badly damaged, forcing the relocation of almost 100 patients.
President Enrique Peña Nieto toured the city yesterday alongside local Mayor Gloria Sánchez and state Governor Alejandro Murat. The president declared three days of national mourning and announced that the emergency strategy known as Plan Mx had been activated.
In Chiapas, the number of victims has risen to 15 across four municipalities. The quake’s epicenter was 87 kilometers off the coast near the town of Pijijiapan. The Mexican seismological authority said that it occurred at a depth of 19 kilometers.
The other state to suffer fatalities was Tabasco, where the deaths of four people have been confirmed, including two children. One died in hospital after a power outage cut a ventilator’s air supply while the other minor died after a wall collapsed.
A man buried under the rubble of a collapsed store has also been confirmed dead, bringing the state’s toll to four.
More than 250 people have also been reported injured by the massive earthquake, Mexico’s largest in at least a century.
“The strength of nature can be devastating but the strength of the state and the solidarity of Mexicans is far greater,” Peña Nieto wrote on his Twitter account.
He stated that reestablishing water and food supplies along with treating the injured were priorities. Aid packages have started arriving at affected areas.
The Defense Secretariat said this morning the first aid shipment — more than 46 tonnes of emergency supplies — had been delivered by six planes to the military base in Ixtepec, Oaxaca, for distribution in the Isthmus region. Passengers on the planes included 25 military engineers and 10 military police dogs trained in search and rescue.
More than 1,000 schools sustained structural damage and close to 2 million people were left without power, the Federal Electricity Commission said. However, it said service has been restored to around 90% of those affected.
Military elements have been deployed to affected areas — 2,000 to Oaxaca — while a contingent of 150 Federal Police officers has also arrived with search and rescue dogs to contribute to recovery efforts.
At least 100 of the homes that were destroyed in Juchitán were regarded as historical buildings for their traditional architecture. A former mayor described their loss as a blow to the region’s “identity and cultural essence.”
Finance Secretary José Antonio Meade said the federal government was analyzing whether an additional US $150-million emergency fund could be accessed to assist victims but highlighted that resources from a 9-billion-peso (US $509-million) disaster fund would be available and he proposed adding a further 6 billion pesos to it.
While the quake was felt strongly in Mexico City, none of the city’s key infrastructure was damaged, Mayor Miguel Ángel Mancera reported. However, an overpass that was under construction on the new Pirámides-Texcoco highway in adjoining México state collapsed. No one was hurt.
More than 500 aftershocks have been recorded since the quake, the strongest reaching a 6.1-magnitude and tsunami warnings also followed. Thousands of people were evacuated from coastal areas but waves triggered by the quake caused no damage.
Seismologists and other experts told a press conference yesterday there had been a tsunami “of relative importance” with waves of up to three meters. But they were not all that big considering the magnitude of the quake, said Jorge Zavala of the National Mareographic Service of the National Autonomous University.
The highest waves were recorded in Chiapas, he said.
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