"Fifteen minutes before water from a flooded stream swept into her home, Lilia Ramirez took off running with what little she could carry. When she returned she found not only damage from the water that had flooded her first floor to the ceiling, but the oil it had carried now streaking her walls."
"Mexico has deployed some 10,000 troops in addition to civilian rescue teams. Helicopters have ferried food and water to the 200 some communities that remained cut off by ground and carried out the sick and injured. "There are sufficient resources, this won't be skimped on ... because we're still in the emergency period," President Claudia Sheinbaum said during her daily press briefing Monday."
"But on some streets in Poza Rica, 170 miles (275 kilometers) northeast of Mexico City, the cleanup of mud and debris was complicated by thick oil deposits on trees, roofs and vehicles tossed by the current that swept through Friday. Parts of Veracruz state received some 24.7 inches (62.7 centimeters) of rain from Oct. 6 to 9. Ramirez said that at other times of heavy rains, the state oil company Pemex had drained nearby areas with oil to avoid it spreading."
Severe torrential rains and flooding across five Mexican states killed 64 people and left 65 missing. Authorities report roughly 100,000 homes across the region sustained damage. Poza Rica, an oil town near the Gulf of Mexico, experienced oil residue streaking walls and coating trees, roofs and vehicles after floodwaters carried petroleum through neighborhoods. Parts of Veracruz received about 24.7 inches (62.7 centimeters) of rain from Oct. 6 to 9. Mexico deployed about 10,000 troops alongside civilian rescue teams, and helicopters ferried food, water and evacuated the sick from roughly 200 communities cut off by ground. Cleanup efforts are complicated by thick oil deposits.
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