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| Eye of hurricane Dean strikes Mexic |
| Hurricane Dean plowed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 21-August-2007
10:39:55 AM |
| Hurricane Dean plowed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, lashing ancient Mayan ruins and heading for modern oil installations.
The eye of the storm made landfall near Majahual, a popular port with cruise liners, about 65 km east-northeast of Chetumal and the Belize border, according to the US National Hurricane Center.
Dean packed winds near 270 kph and was moving west-northwest near 32 kph across the Yucatan peninsula, on course to reach by on Tuesday evening the southern Bay of Campeche.
The hurricane killed at least 12 people across the Caribbean, picked up strength after brushing Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and became a monstrous Category 5 hurricane on Monday.
Category 5 storms - capable of catastrophic damage - are extremely rare. Only three have hit the US since 1935.
Thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Riviera. Though expected to escape a direct hit, Cancun still could face destructive winds.
State civil protection official Francisco de la Cruz described battering winds from his hurricane-proof offices in Chetumal just before the eye reached land.
''There's a lot of noisy wind now with this creature all over us,'' he said.
The Chetumal city Web site reported power outages as the hurricane knocked trees down across roadways and sheets of metal flew through the air.
At 0900 GMT, Dean was located just inland of Majahual, 55 km east-northeast of Chetumal.
Meteorologists said a storm surge of four to six meters (12 to 18 feet) was possible at the storm's center, which could push seawater deep inland. Heavy rains threatened to inundate the swampy region.
Petroleos Mexicanos decided on Monday to shut down production on the offshore rigs on the Bay of Campeche - resulting in a production loss of 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day.
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