Looting, Crime Rises In Wake of Hurricane Odile

Luke 17:28-30 “Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built” but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Hurricane Odile, which slammed into Mexico’s Baja California as a major Category 4 hurricane, is opening the door for criminals and looters to ransack villages devastated by the storm.

Officials say that 135 people have been injured from the storm, and no one has been killed, but the major problem has been power outages and looting from stores left unprotected in the wake of evacuations.

Police say that looters have appeared to focus on electronic and higher end stores, stealing televisions, stereo equipment and other high event devices.  Grocery stores have also been cleaned out with everything taken from Coca-Cola to potato chips to pancake mix.

Over 240,000 residents of the region are without power after most of the utility poles in the region were snapped off by the storm.  The Federal Electricity Commission says that 92 percent of the people living in Baja California are without power.

Officials say that without power, it will be very hard to control the looting of vacated homes and businesses.

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  1. Hope they enjoy their new tv.s.All of you should be ashamed,you are only hurting your selves,God loves you but he is ashamed of you,theses people work for their stores and supplies to serve you not every one is covered by insurance,you only hurt your community when you tear it up and steal.Why do you feel like everyone owns you.you should be helping each other not stealing from ones trying to help your commuity,food is something you need but Tv.s And high price things is stupid and selfish and stealing and why so much destruction when there is already so much,your people who have no feeling of right and wronge.I know we will all pray for you,what would happen if we all felt this way.

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