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IniZIHo de la Primavera (reply)

frostbite — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:32:23 +0000

Back in the eighties, I spent some time flying out of Barrow, on the North Slope of Alaska. One day, when the visibility was well below the legal limits, we got a call from the grocery store in one of the villages (which were only accessible by air in the summer) that they were in desperate need of restocking their supplies, which were waiting for better weather in our hangar. I was asked if I'd be willing to try to get there in the fog. Feeling bad for the natives going without food, I agreed to try. The Twin Otter was loaded and my co-pilot and I jumped in, cranked up the engines and headed south. We crept along about 100 feet above the tundra and managed to find the place. Upon unloading, we discovered that the desperately needed food consisted of nothing but Cheese Doodles, potato chips and sodapop. That explained why so many of the kids had rotten teeth. I was not happy.

IniZIHo de la Primavera (reply)

Tucker62 — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:01:13 +0000

Great picture Rob. You can see from the kids' physiques that this was shortly before Vicente Fox took over leadership of Coca-Cola Mexico to establish it as Mexico's top-selling soft drink and increase sales 50% in six years. Truly a man of the people.

IniZIHo de la Primavera

ZihuaRob — Mon, 22 Mar 2021 02:34:03 +0000

https://youtu.be/3he83JtL8OQ

As of today, since April 18, 2020 Zihuatanejo has registered a cumulative total of 2,177 confirmed cases of Covid-19 (same as yesterday), 178 that have resulted in fatalities, 21 that are currently active, and approximately 1,838 that have recovered.

Still quite a lot of tourists in town, though the Guardia Nacional and Seguridad Pública seemed to keep a lid on things downtown last night and we slept wonderfully. Kudos to them.

The first day of spring saw another slight increase in the heat and humidity, and the presence of smoke is starting to dull the usual deep blue of the sky, though it's still only barely noticeable at dawn and dusk.

This week is a good time to stock up on supplies and to make sure you have gas and water. Water service is already lagging, and the more people there are the less water there is to go around and the pressure falls. Reminds me how stupid it is to build the 1200 room hotel at Playa Manzanillo. Not only do we not have enough water for our existing population, we also don't have sufficient sewage treatment for a hotel that size, and I doubt they'll put in their own well and sewage treatment plant.
#PreservemosPlayaManzanillo

Zihuatanejo de antaño (ca. 1972): Students of the Escuela Primaria "Vicente Guerrero" used to wash their desks in the lagoon or the ocean.