I'm sort of surprised nobody wrote about this, and i'm probably not the best writer,
and it's 1 AM, but I thought i'd bang out a initial diary.
1) Hurricane ODile (Oh-Deal) dogged east and slammed Cabo San Lucas as a Cat 3
storm.
2) there are 35,000 tourists needing evac
3) a town of 70,000 people is badly trashed, it's not going to be good for the locals
4) I imagine the housing crisis will be severe.
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
Luis Felipe Puente, national coordinator for Civil Protection, said most of the area's power poles were blown over, leaving 239,000 people in the state of Baja California Sur without electricity. Many were also without drinkable water. Ports were closed.
"It's the entire corridor" between San Jose del Cabo and Cabo San Lucas, said Deneb Poli, a medical worker at the Hotel Melia Cabo Real. She said the resort's guests and employees were fine, but electricity and phone lines were down and cellphone coverage was spotty. "There are parts of hotels that are completely collapsed. The damage is pretty extensive."
Now historically the mexican utilities are pretty good, so, they should do a good job
but, there will be needs
Shelter
reconstruction
Homeless pets.
This could have been a lot worse, it was Cat 3, and 18 inches of rain, but,
it's not good for the survivors.
http://www.weather.com/...
I'm not sure what are the best charities, but, i'll put up good links if i find them.