The official death count from the strongest hurricane ever measured in the Western Hemisphere: zero.

Two days after Hurricane Patricia made landfall, packing winds of 165 mph, the toll appears to be limited to flooding and wind damage to houses, power outages and small mudslides that briefly blocked some roadways.

For the Mexican government of President Enrique Peña Nieto, it was a rare bit of good news in a year in which it has sometimes seemed that everything that could go wrong, did. Peña Nieto has been hammered by criticism over his handling of the disappearance of 43 college students and the prison escape of drug cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, and his administration has been beset by corruption scandals.

But this time, Mexico — and Peña Nieto — benefited from what appears to have been a successful emergency response and extraordinary good luck. Patricia, at one point the strongest hurricane ever measured in the Western Hemisphere, struck land in a relatively remote stretch of Mexico’s Pacific coast and quickly petered out as it hit the coastal mountains.

Source: http://www.latimes.com/world/mexico-americas/la-fg-mexico-patricia-manzanillo-20151025-story.html