哈维尔·索托和他的邻居们才刚开始清理上一场飓风造成的洪水和泥石流毁坏，太平洋上空又开始孕育另一场大风暴，再次威胁到他们位于巴亚尔塔港以北的社区。39岁的索托是班德拉斯湾这个海滨小镇的一名旅行社工作人员，那里已经连续下了几个星期的雨。“我们刚熬过一场风暴，就又得面对另一场，”他说，“感觉就像是一个看不到尽头的隧道。”
Javier Soto and his neighbors had just begun cleaning up flood and mudslide damage from the last hurricane when another major storm began brewing in the Pacific Ocean, once again threatening their community north of Puerto Vallarta. "We get through one storm only to face another," said Soto, 39, a travel agent in the beach town of Bahía de Banderas, where it has been raining for weeks straight. "It feels like a tunnel with no exit in sight."
东太平洋创纪录的飓风季一直在猛烈袭击墨西哥太平洋海岸，给格雷罗州、哈利斯科州、纳亚里特州、科利马州和下加利福尼亚州等地带来了死亡和破坏。今年迄今为止，东太平洋已形成10场飓风，为2018年以来最多。气象学家预测还会有更多飓风形成。气象学家表示，强烈的厄尔尼诺现象以及气候变化导致的海水温度升高，让这些风暴威力大增，它们的持续时间比平时更长，风力也比正常情况下更强。
A record-shattering hurricane season in the eastern Pacific has been battering Mexico's Pacific coast, bringing death and destruction to states including Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit, Colima and Baja California. Ten hurricanes have formed in the eastern Pacific so far this year, the most since 2018. And more are predicted. Meteorologists say a powerful El Niño and warmer ocean temperatures caused by climate change have super charged the storms, which have lasted longer than usual and have sustained stronger winds than is typical.
最新的一场风暴是特鲁迪，这是一场1级飓风，预计将于周日掠过墨西哥西南部海岸。从格雷罗州到纳亚里特州的当局发出警告称，特鲁迪可能会增强，并表示由于此前的风暴已使地面饱和，强降雨可能会造成严重破坏。
The latest storm is Trudy, a Category 1 hurricane that was expected to pass Mexico's southwestern coast on Sunday. Authorities from Guerrero to Nayarit warned that Trudy could strengthen, and said heavy rainfall could cause major damage because the ground is already saturated from previous storms.
墨西哥太平洋海岸的居民对强烈的飓风早已习以为常。但许多人表示，今年的感觉截然不同，因为持续时间长的风暴接连不断地袭来，让居民几乎没有机会进行清理和晾干。“你甚至还没从一场风暴中恢复过来，下一场就到了，”阿卡普尔科43岁的餐馆经理里卡多·特雷霍说。
Residents on Mexico's Pacific coastline are accustomed to powerful hurricanes. But many say this year feels different because long-lasting storms have hit in quick succession, giving residents little chance to clean up and dry out. "You haven't even recovered from one storm when the next one arrives," said Ricardo Trejo, 43, a restaurant manager in Acapulco.
这座著名的度假小镇在9月下旬遭到飓风波洛袭击，几天后又遭到飓风西蒙袭击。随着特鲁迪本周逼近，特雷霍和他的员工发现自己不得不再次用木板封住海滨咖啡馆的窗户，同时还要做好应对收入损失和潜在破坏的心理准备。“每一场飓风都留下灾难和经济损失，”特雷霍说。
The famed resort town was hit by Hurricane Polo in late September and again by Hurricane Simon days later. As Trudy approached this week, Trejo and his staff found themselves once again boarding up their seaside cafe — while bracing themselves for lost income and potential damage. "Every hurricane leaves behind disaster and financial loss," Trejo said.
“旅游业下降，工作丧失，家庭受苦，孩子们失学。” 下加利福尼亚半岛也遭到了一系列强风暴的袭击 — — 首先是波洛，然后是瑞秋。当局表示，在靠近美国边境以南的海滨城镇恩塞纳达，有八人遇难。当地居民表示，道路和海滩仍然受到严重破坏，需要更多政府支持。“我们正在请求政府宣布灾难区，以便更多财政资源能够到达，” 56 岁的赫拉尔多·古铁雷斯说。
"Tourism drops, work is lost, families suffer, kids miss school." The Baja California Peninsula has also been battered by a series of powerful storms — first Polo and then Rachel. Authorities said eight people were killed in Ensenada, a beach town just south of the U.S. border. Residents there say roads and beaches are still badly damaged, and that more government support is needed. "We are asking the government to declare a disaster zone so that more financial resources will arrive," said Gerardo Gutiérrez, 56.
“我们邻居们正在靠自己清理一切。” 洛雷托镇的 53 岁店主罗伯托·弗洛雷斯说，该镇位于下加利福尼亚半岛更偏远的地区，当地人也在等待联邦当局提供更多帮助。“我们之所以能在这里生存，是因为我们互相帮助 — — 邻里互助，” 弗洛雷斯说。“如果不是这样，我们就会被完全抛弃。” 弗洛雷斯和其他人表示，他们对今年的风暴季感到不安，并担心这是人类打破自然平衡的后果。”
"We neighbors are cleaning everything by ourselves." Roberto Flores, a 53-year-old shop owner in Loreto, an even more remote town on the Baja Peninsula, said locals were also waiting for more help from federal authorities. "We survive here because we help one another — neighbors helping neighbors," Flores said. "Were it not for that, we would be completely abandoned.”Flores and others said they were unnerved by this year's storm season, and worried that it was a consequence of humans throwing the natural world out of balance.
我们这些生活在这里的人知道，飓风是正常现象，但不正常的是它们接连不断地出现，没有间歇，而且每一次都非常严重，” 他补充道。2023 年，墨西哥太平洋沿岸遭遇了有记录以来最强的风暴 — — 奥蒂斯，该风暴在快速增强后以五级飓风的强度袭击了阿卡普尔科。气象学家将其快速增强归因于厄尔尼诺现象和人为造成的气候变化导致的异常温暖的海水温度。
"Those of us who live here know that hurricanes are normal, but what isn’t normal is having them one after another without a break, and all of them severe," he said. In 2023, Mexico's Pacific coast was hit by its most powerful storm on record, Otis, which slammed into Acapulco as a Category 5 hurricane after strengthening rapidly. Meteorologists blamed its rapid growth on unseasonably warm ocean temperatures triggered by El Niño and human-caused climate change.
数十人遇难，阿卡普尔科遭受了数十亿美元的损失。来自巴亚尔塔港的 49 岁厨师格拉西埃拉·拉米雷斯表示，她担心强烈风暴将成为新常态。她所在的工人阶级社区在今年早些时候的风暴中受到严重破坏 — — 房屋被洪水淹没，山体滑坡冲毁了街道。现在她和她的家人正在收拾行李，前往避难所躲避特鲁迪风暴。“我们又来了，” 她说。
Dozens of people were killed and Acapulco suffered billions of dollars in damage. Graciela Ramírez, a 49-year-old cook in Puerto Vallarta, said she worried that powerful storms were the new normal. Her working-class neighborhood was badly damaged in earlier storms this year — with homes flooded and landslides wiping out streets. Now she and her family were packing their bags to go to a shelter to wait out Trudy. "Here we go again, she said.
我们失业了，生活在飓风可能会全力袭来、我们可能会失去一切的恐惧之中。林蒂库姆自新墨西哥州圣达菲报道，桑切斯自墨西哥城报道。
"We're left without work, living in fear that the hurricane might strike with full force and we could lose everything.”Linthicum reported from Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Sánchez from Mexico City.