{"id":3909,"date":"2014-09-18T11:42:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T15:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/?p=3909"},"modified":"2016-02-14T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T16:16:07","slug":"cabo-san-lucas-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/carolinatravelgirl\/2014\/09\/18\/cabo-san-lucas-relief-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabo San Lucas – Relief Efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

How You Can Help Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur<\/h2>\n

My cousins from Seattle introduced me to Cabo San Lucas almost ten years ago and since then we have spent every Thanksgiving week there together with a few extra vacations thrown in as well. During that time, I have come to love that particular part of Mexico.\u00a0 The people who live there work hard and are proud of where they live and what they do. They welcome visitors with open arms and are very dependent upon the tourist trade for their livelihood.<\/p>\n

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Pueblo Bonito Rose After Odile<\/p><\/div>\n

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The powerful Category 3-4 Hurricane Odile arrived last week as a most unwelcome visitor. The devastation of the Baja California Sur area has left its inhabitants with a lack of power and drinking water.\u00a0 Many have lost their homes. Resort areas will take weeks to months before they will be operational and able to accept guests.<\/p>\n

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Medano Beach After Odile<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Mexican government has stepped in and has begun ferrying some of the almost 30,000 tourists to airports in Tijuana, Mazatlan, Guadalajara and Mexico City in order to catch connecting flights back to the US and other parts of the world.<\/p>\n

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San Jos\u00e9 del Cabo International Airport (SJD)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0has been working diligently to facilitate the clean up effort of removing debris in order to reopen the airport to commercial carriers as soon as possible. However, given the extensive damage to the terminal buildings, it will take several days before they completely reopen the terminals to travelers.\u00a0The control tower, runways and ramps were quickly repaired yesterday to allow the Mexican Air Force to commence the airlift without delay. This on-going airlift is also transporting much needed food and medical supplies to the affected areas of the Los Cabos region.<\/p>\n

El Aeropuerto Internacional de La Paz<\/strong>\u00a0(LAP)\u00a0\u00a0will likely resume normal operations\u00a0by September 18th or 19th.<\/p>\n

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Alaska Airlines<\/strong> <\/a>will be sending planes down with water, food and other supplies. According to their press release on their blog<\/a> as of yesterday:<\/p>\n

The first two domestic flights out of Los Cabos arrived safely in Los Angeles and San Diego this evening. A third, flight 279, is expected to arrive at about 9:20 p.m.<\/p>\n

The airport remains closed to commercial \u00a0air service, but local authorities have authorized outgoing humanitarian relief flights. Customers waiting at the airport are being boarded on those flights on a first come, first serve basis.<\/p>\n

All flights\u00a0to<\/strong>\u00a0Los Cabos have been canceled.<\/p>\n

Alaska will operate six humanitarian relief flights out of Los Cabos International Airport. The six flights to Los Cabos will be loaded with water, food and supplies.<\/p>\n

The following flights are planned for Thursday:<\/p>\n