UPDATE: CABO HURRICANE ODILE THE DAY AFTER

Hurricane Odile News 
 The hurricane hit Los Cabos the night of Sept. 15 causing much damage 

• Sept 16 Mexico President Peña Nieto is in La Paz meeting with his cabinet.
• The road to La Paz is passable but it's down to one lane.
• Food is running out fast, most of the stores have been looted.

• The Mexican government started to airlift the more than 30,000 stranded tourists from Cabo to Tijuana, Mazatlan, Guadalajara and Mexico City in government and commercial airplanes free of charge since yesterday.
• The Cabo airport is not working with the exception of government flights. It is hoped to return to "normal" operations for commercial flights Sept. 22. But don't count on it with the power grid down - ticketing computers, radar etc. won't function.
• La Paz airport is working, some tourists are driving up to La Paz to take a plane.
• David Flores, Gringo Gazette editor in Cabo has counted 75 Electric Poles that are down on the ground, he says the real number could be more than double that.
• There are 200 CFE trucks on their way to Cabo from mainland Mexico and northern Baja
• The mexican government and different associations are flying in food to La Paz, the government will be distributing the food.
• There is only one single OXXO convenience store in Cabo that hasn't been looted.
• There is a collpased bridge south of Los Barriles so nobody can get to San Jose from Los Barriles.
• You probably won't hear from your loved ones in Cabo or La Paz until the power grid is restored, this doesn't mean something bad happened to them, there is just no communication.
• Besides food, shelter, potable water, electricity, airport, highway and bridge repairs and a functioning sewage system; the next problema will be importing millions of square feet of window glass, plaster, cement, paint etc. to patch the place up again.
• Many locals living in substandard ramshackle housing in the barrios lost everything they owned. Furniture, dishes, clothes etc. Charitable organizations will need to gear up for aiding these people.

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