Hurricane Wilma batters Cancun
Image source: National Hurricane Center / NOAA
An AP newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:
Hurricane Wilma’s outer edge battered Cancun’s white-sand beaches Thursday as officials ordered guests out of hotels, tourists jockeyed for spots on the last flights out, and tens of thousands of people from Honduras to the Florida Keys were evacuated ahead of the “extremely dangerous” storm.
Wilma weakened slightly as it roared toward Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and south Florida after killing 13 people in Haiti and Jamaica. It was expected to reach Cancun early Friday, the second hurricane to hit the resort this year, following Hurricane Emily in July, before turning northeast toward Florida.
It was forecast to hit Florida’s southwest coast sometime Sunday.
posted by Fergie @ 10/20/2005 12:53:00 PM
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