Tourists leave flooded Acapulco
By Gay Nagle Myers
By Sunday, officials estimated that most of the 40,000 tourists had left Acapulco, either by a transport fleet of 600 buses or by emergency airlift on commercial and military aircraft.
As the death toll rose above 100 from Tropical Storm Manuel, which hit Acapulco on Sept. 15, Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto sought to reassure hotel owners that the reconstruction phase has begun.
Most resort hotels remained closed due to power outages and lack of food supplies and provisions.
Pena Nieto told hoteliers over the weekend that the government would help address their concerns, including improving the Highway of the Sun, the main thoroughfare from Mexico City, which partially reopened last Friday.
The highway was open for one lane of traffic only in many areas, with detours skirting stretches damaged by flooding, according to news reports.
Federal officials let 50 vehicles leave Acapulco at a time to try and avoid long lines of backed-up traffic.
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