BajaNomad

Cancun and Wilma

Cincodemayo - 10-21-2005 at 03:28 PM

Let's hope our amigos are safe while this monster passes!
That goes for all the gringos there too that are stuck in shelters....

Wilma

Cincodemayo - 10-21-2005 at 03:30 PM


woody with a view - 10-21-2005 at 04:38 PM

yeah, it's gonna take years to recover. hopefully the gov't cared about the locals enough to evacuate them as well as the tourists

comitan - 10-21-2005 at 05:05 PM

Yeah

Monday the tourists will be in thier hotel rooms, business as usual.

Taco de Baja - 10-24-2005 at 07:50 AM

I'll bet Canun it rebuilt long before New Orleans too.....

Bob H - 10-24-2005 at 04:14 PM

We just got back from Yucatan. Some places along the hotel row area (in Quintana Roo) were completely under water up to the fourth or fifth floor. Cozumel, forget about it. Over 30,000 people (tourists) are still evacuated from the area some in outlying hotels and in shelters trying to get back home. My wife an I were lucky that we were 200 miles West of Cancun exploring Myan ruins wheh we heard about Wilma and ended up driving to Merida and catching a flight, luckily, to Mexico City where we were able to get on a flight back to the States on Saturday.
This area will take months if not years to rebuild. It's just terrible.
Bob and Audrey H

bajajudy - 10-24-2005 at 06:01 PM

Bob
Thanks for your first hand report. After seeing palms without a single frond, I feared that there would be a lot of damage to structures, too.
Glad you made back out ok.