Hurricane Odile destroyed homes and shut down airports in Mexico´s Baja California peninsula yesterday sparking looting, marooning thousands of foreign tourists and injuring 135 people.
The powerful storm caused heavy material damage in Los Cabos resort towns and hotels were badly flooded. Nobody was killed.
Hundreds of looters ransacked supermarkets and electronic stores, snatching rice, water, toilet paper, alcohol, televisions, and fans after the passage of the hurricane, which later weakened as it moved north.
More than 1,000 troops were deployed to the disaster area, which was without electricity and running water. Scores of wood-plank and tin-roof homes were leveled in one neighborhood.
Some 26,000 foreigners and 4,000 Mexican beachgoers were looking at a second night in hotels that served as temporary shelters. Authorities scrambled to reopen the international airports in Los Cabos and La Paz in order to send military planes to airlift the
