Military trucks hauled bottled water, food and clothing to Mexico's flooded Gulf coast Friday the 2nd, as rescue workers in helicopters and boats worked furiously to retrieve thousands of victims stranded on rooftops. With flooding across nearly all of the Gulf coast state of Tabasco and food and drinking water scarce, health officials warned against epidemics of cholera and other waterborne diseases. An estimated 900,000 people had their homes flooded, damaged or cut off, and as of Thursday 300,000 still had not been rescued. This could lead to a lot of deaths and diseases which will make Mexico even worse than it already is.
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