Hurricane Emily Pounds Yucatan
Posted on: Monday, 18 July 2005, 21:00 CDT
Hurricane Emily battered Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula Monday ripping up trees and knocking out power.
The resort city of Playa del Carmen was among the hardest hit, El Universal reported. Cancun, the area's largest tourist draw, was forced to close its airport and many businesses.
On Sunday, Mexican authorities ordered some 130,000 tourists in Cancun and surrounding beaches to evacuate, and the state oil company Pemex also began evacuating 15,000 workers from 63 oil rigs off the Mexican coast.
The National Hurricane Center's long-range forecast said Emily is most likely to approach Mexico's mainland near the Texas border by late Tuesday.
Meanwhile, coastal communities in southern Texas and northern Mexico waited Monday to see where Hurricane Emily would hit next after moving back to the Gulf of Mexico.
The National Weather Service declared a hurricane watch from Cabo Rojo, Mexico, north of Veracruz, to Baffin Bay, Texas, 33 miles south of Corpus Christi.
Source: United Press International
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