Looting ravaged the Mexican city of Acapulco after the iconic beach resort was hammered this week by Hurricane Otis, a record-breaking storm that killed at least 27 people and left thousands of residents struggling to get food and water.

Groups of angry, desperate residents on Friday began blocking the only two entrances to the hurricane-ravaged resort to demand food and water, three days after a Category 5 storm ripped through the city, leaving thousands without access to basic necessities.

As Mexico's military leaders on Friday listed the aid that was beginning to pour into the city – thousands of packages of basic necessities, water and medical personnel – most residents had yet to see it.

And while authorities had allowed residents to take what they needed from stores across the city, people in more rural areas on the outskirts of Acapulco said their homes were wrecked and they had no access to food or water.

Otis roared ashore early Wednesday with winds of 266 kilometers per hour devastating high-rise hotels and humble homes alike in the city of 1 million. It took the entire first day just to open the highway allowing authorities to reach Acapulco and two days to make it possible for planes to land.

On Friday, throngs of desperate villagers from impoverished outlying hamlets like Metlapil lined one of the only two roads leading into the resort, waving signs and desperately holding out arms asking for water, milk, diapers and medicine.

"If we don't get aid into Metlapil and the other towns, we're going to block the road," said resident Esteban Domínguez Bacilio, 19. He explained that they were desperate "because trees fell on our houses, our children need to eat, we don't have anything" and "no authority has come, nobody, nobody."

The communities consisted of clusters of a few dozen modest wood and tin-roofed homes set among coconut palms.