• RockyTron
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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.