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The worst natural disaster in Mexico’s recent memory, the magnitude 8 quake of 1985, looms as an example of government failure.

While Patricia had no impact on General Motors’ Mexico operations, the automaker is “taking actions to minimize [the] potential impact” of damage on the supply chain, a spokesman said.

“Our hotel room happened to be in the safest part of the resort so the hotel asked if we could house other guests in our room overnight”, Kevin Bartley said in an e-mail.

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In just 40 hours, the weather system that became known as Hurricane Patricia grew into the fiercest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere, threatening calamity on Mexico’s Pacific Coast, only to fizzle into a weak tropical depression after it came ashore. In Houston, more than a foot of rain fell, and strong offshore winds grounded an oil tanker near Galveston Island. More than 10 million people in Texas and Louisiana are under flash-flood watches, the firm said in an update on its website.

“As Catholics, as people of faith, we see a population that was praying”, he added.

But the storm struck a lightly populated area, and was downgraded to a Category 2 tropical storm by the morning of October. 24. It moved quickly but lost power in the high mountains that rise up along the Pacific coast, limiting damage nationwide.

“Nature was kind”, said Gerardo Ruiz Esparza, communications and transportation minister.

Patricia was still a Category 5 when she hit landfall in Mexico, but, by then, peak wind speed had dropped to 165mph.

McMullen said that aside from hearing loud thunder and hearing pounding rain, there weren’t too many signs of the violent storm from inside the shelter.

After a 12-hour bus ride with little food, Houston said he was able to make flight arrangements to head back home to Massachusetts. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, employs a diverse workforce of 178,500 and generated more than $127 billion in 2014 revenues. Although there’s no way to know exactly how much climate change is a factor in Patricia’s explosive strengthening, it’s irresponsible, at this point, not to discuss it.