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Saturday night in less than 20 minutes of rain, downtown Zihuatanejo suffered one of the worst floods it's ever had IN RECORD TIME. Although the hardworking cleanup crews of Zihuatanejo's municipal government did an amazing job, the fact that they had so much to clean up where normally they never had to before is the elephant in the room that local media and the municipal government are trying to avoid. Of course the new dead-end road at Capricho del Rey was a major job to clean up. Something that never had to be done before it was "remodelled" with tons of costly cement. Before the remodel, they could just shovel it around or toss a few wheelbarrows of dirt or gravel, and that would fix it. Now they had to spend hours with water tanker trucks and a crew of sweepers. Many downtown residents and merchants lost property and merchandise last night. Thanks to all our new streets and walkways on our hillsides, especially the parts that until relatively recently were ecological zones, now denuded of trees, the same as is currently happening to the hills above La Ropa and Las Gatas.

Our flooding problem is something we've known about for decades. It's not new. What's new are the extent to which the flooding occurs and the reduced amount of time that it now takes to flood downtown. I counted LESS THAN 20 MINUTES from when the rain began to fall and the sighting of the first muddy wave coming from the direction of La Boquita Canal along Juan N. Álvarez Street that signified intense flooding. A new record, and I've been keeping the score for decades. What used to take 2 hours or more to happen is now down to less than 20 minutes. That's evidence of criminal negligence by part of the city government for allowing so many illegal settlements and so much deforestation in what were our ecological zones surrounding the bay and for building so many cement roads and walkways that don't have any consideration for pluvial drainage in addition to developments that block more and more of the natural drainage towards Las Salinas Lagoon.

They need to do better! Especially considering the current wasteful spending for an unnecessary project going on at Zihuatanejo's pier area. And considering the hundreds of millions of pesos "invested" in fixing this problem by previous administrations

A tropical storm off our coast is expected to come closer to the coast and quickly form into a hurricane over the next few days. Be prepared for strong winds and torrential rains in the coming days. Last night was the first heads up.
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_ep2+shtml/588214.shtml?key_messages#contents

Our longtime friend (over 30 years) José Manuel Guzmán of Guzmán's Tours is a federally licensed tour guide. He offers a variety of local tours in Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa and the region including to archaeological sites, outlying beaches, countryside communities, trips to Pátzcuaro, and the monarch butterfly sanctuary. He can arrange fishing and horseback riding tours as well as tours to other parts of Mexico. (click to enlarge image)
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Una tormenta se acerca a la bahía de Zihuatanejo durante el anochecer.