Hurricane Otis, Strongest Storm Ever Seen in Eastern Pacific

 Just another headline using the word EVER.  We’ve been watching these NEVER and EVER headlines increase these past 15 years.  Coldest EVER, hottest EVER, flooding NEVER before seen, a tornado swarm NEVER seen in the area, etc...

Today we have another talking about a massive hurricane that slammed into Acapulco.  Notice that they have to say something about climate change and how that must be the reason for WHY the storm gathered strength so quickly.  Bible readers know it’s all about the birth pangs and the earth groaning under the weight of sin.

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Hurricane Otis ripped across Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as a powerful Category 5 storm early Wednesday, tearing through buildings in the resort city of Acapulco, sending sheets of earth down steep mountainsides and leaving large swaths of the southwestern state of Guerrero without power or cellphone service.

While little is known about possible deaths or the full extent of the damage — the main highway into Acapulco was impassable — experts are calling Otis the strongest storm in history to make landfall along the Eastern Pacific Coast.

By midmorning, Otis had weakened to a tropical storm, yet many on the coast were left reeling.

Flor Campos had been trudging through mud for more than an hour along a highway outside Acapulco before she peeled off her shoes, worried she'd lose them in the muck.

The domestic worker from a small town in Guerrero was among dozens of families, women and children who clambered over tree trunks and other debris left by landslides in the mountainous terrain. It was a daunting escape, but people were desperate to get out.

"We had been waiting since 3 in the morning to get out, so we decided to walk. It was more dangerous to stay. There are trees knocked down, power lines down," Campos said.

On Tuesday, Otis took many by surprise when it rapidly strengthened from a tropical storm to a powerful Category 5 as it tore along the coast.

Researchers tracking the storm told The Associated Press that the storm also broke records for how quickly it intensified, at a time when climate change has exacerbated devastating weather events like this one.

"It’s one thing to have a Category 5 hurricane make landfall somewhere when you’re expecting it or expecting a strong hurricane, but to have it happen when you’re not expecting anything to happen is truly a nightmare," said Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/hurricane-otis-strongest-storm-eastern-pacifics-history-tears-acapulco