Holy Shit Hurricane Patricia is now 200mph with the lowest

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40. I was in Acapulco back in '89 when Cosme passed overhead

We stayed at the El Presidente (that I just discovered was one of the early luxury hotels back in the '50s before most of the rest of the hotels were built along the bay) and it was built on the rocks.



We watched the wave swells come in well before the hurricane made landfall (which happened overnight) and they had reached the pool in the above pic during the day (wasn't able to see when landfall came). The next morning, there were dozens of ships that had pulled into the bay for protection and the street that the hotel fronts, was flooded. What was wild was that a day or two before we went to Acapulco, we were in Mexico City - WELL inland and north, and experienced unusual winds at the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon. The guide remarked about it because it is usually calm there (altitude there is about 7000 ft). We didn't know there was a tropical storm/hurricane forming out in the Pacific!

If you have almost 40 ft swells - forget it for anything along the coast all the way back to the hills.