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Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico's Pacific coast with wind speeds reaching 270 kilometres an hour.
The category five hurricane had a catastrophic impact on the popular tourist town of Acapulco, where it destroyed 80 percent of its hotels.
Neighbourhoods on the outskirts of the city were ruined by mudslides, homes and businesses battered, water supplies cut off and there's widespread power outages.
Whilst the government's deployed 17,000 troops to the area, help has been slow to arrive.
Local communities have, therefore, decided to band together to help themselves.
Margarita Carmona lives in the Puerto Marques neighbourhood and is urging her neighbours to start cleaning up their homes after the category five hurricane.
With so much shattered glass and rubble underfoot, the work can be dangerous as residents have also lost their clothes and shoes in the storm as fisherman Julian Matadama laments.
Whilst the cleanup continues, many are concerned about the future and how people will survive, including local Omar Flores.
In a city that was once the playground of Hollywood stars but has been riven by organised crime gangs for years, locals fear that it will be a long time before tourists choose to return.
Juana Flores highlights that for the moment they have to concentrate on helping themselves.
