http://www.intellicast.com/Storm/Hurricane/Active.aspx?storm=2&type=track
Indicates sustained wind of 200mph and
gusts to 245mph
No building is designed to withstand a gust of 245mph.
I sincerely hope that Mexico's disaster services are entirely on the ball and are nearly finished evacuating the (hopefully) sparsely populated area.
There's not going to be a whole lot left standing for those people when they return.
Wow, that thing is big enough to blow our tax money down to there.
To put things in perspective, we tend to design for 80 mph at say 16lbs/SF, 100 mph winds at say 25 Lb/SF.
200 mph will be designed at least for 100 lb/SF.
Design in some areas of the bldg 200-210 mph winds will have some design loading at closer to 225 LB/SF. Some uplift forces exceed 400lb/sf at those velocities for a flat roof at the eaves.
Couple this with stormwater drainage failures and foundation damage, complete annihilation of structures isn’t implausible.
In one word:
EVACUATE.