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Government's handling of Hurricane Patricia is a rare bit of good news for Mexico
Skies are clear, highways are flowing with traffic and airports across the western coast of Mexico are open. The official death count from the strongest hurricane ever measured in the Western Hemisphere: zero. Two days after Hurricane Patricia made landfall, packing winds of 165 mph, the toll appears to be limited to flooding and wind damage to houses, power outages and small mudslides that briefly blocked some roadways.
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For all the bad press the Mexican government gets, from rampant corruption to blatant nepotism and so on, their disaster preparedness and response programs are some of the best in the hemisphere. They might have overreacted to Patricia, but with it's rapid strengthening there was no way to predict where it would have fallen and they evacuated tens of thousands of people from areas that ended up barely affected. Some 4500 homes were leveled during the storm though, and nobody died as a direct result of the storm due to the extensive evacuations even in remote areas. Now the cleanup is underway and infrastructure should come back online shortly.