The toll from dev­as­tat­ing storms of Ingrid and Manuel has reached 80 with many strand­ed and more than 50 miss­ing in a mas­sive land­slide north of Acapulco.
The Mex­i­can IARU mem­ber soci­ety, Fed­era­cion Mex­i­cana De Radio Exper­i­men­ta­dores (FMRE) is using both 7060 and 14120 kHz to car­ry emer­gency traffic. 

Zian Taboa­da XE1ATZ reports that trop­i­cal storm Manuel hit the State of Guer­rero which is cut off from the out­side world with the loss of com­mu­ni­ca­tions, now being pro­vid­ed by ama­teur radio.
Sta­tions in sev­er­al loca­tions are help­ing the com­mu­ni­ca­tions in the affect­ed areas and receiv­ing mes­sages from the Gulf of Mexico. 

“This weath­er sit­u­a­tion of two storms of this strength has not occurred in the Mex­i­can repub­lic since 1958,” Zian XE1ATZ said.
The weath­er was expect­ed to improve on the Pacif­ic side, though the rain­storm Manuel seems to inten­si­fy­ing and like­ly to affect the region of the Baja Cal­i­for­nia Penin­su­la and the Gulf of California. 

Offi­cials in Mex­i­co put at 35,000 the num­ber of homes dam­aged or destroyed. Elec­tric­i­ty, water and com­mu­ni­ca­tions have been cut, flights can­celled and wide­spread food shortages.
The hur­ri­cane sea­son had trained and pre­pared radio ama­teurs in a num­ber of coun­tries on alert.