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Monday, July 18, 2005

Hurricane Emily hits Mexico (Hurricane Emily) resorts; death toll mounts (AFP via Yahoo! News)


Hurricane Emily hits Mexico resorts; death toll mounts (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hurricane Emily lashed beach resorts on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where thousands of tourists were evacuated or took refuge in shelters while the storm toll across the Caribbean rose to 10 dead.

Hurricane Emily lashes Yucatan peninsula after massive evacuation (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (CP) - Hurricane Emily slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday as a powerful Category 4 storm, snapping concrete utility poles with its winds of 215 kilometres per hour and creating punishing waves along the region's famous white-sand beaches.

Hurricane Emily heads for border (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Hurricane Emily slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula on Monday, where it smashed homes and halted oil exports before heading back to sea to gather strength for another landfall near the Texas border.

Hurricane Emily hits Mexican resorts as toll mounts to eight dead (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Hurricane Emily lashed beach resorts on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where thousands of tourists were evacuated or took refuge in shelters while the storm toll across the Caribbean rose to eight dead.

Hurricane Emily Roars Across Yucatan (AP via Yahoo! News)
Hurricane Emily ripped roofs off luxury hotels along Mexico's Mayan Riviera, stranded thousands of tourists and left hundreds of local residents homeless Monday, forcing many to remain in crowded, leaky shelters.

Summary: Hurricane Emily (AP via Yahoo! News)
STRANDED ON THE BEACH: Hurricane Emily stranded thousands of tourists in Yucatan Peninsula resorts and left hundreds of local residents homeless.

Hurricane Emily Roars Across Yucatan (ABC News)
Hurricane Emily Roars Across Yucatan Peninsula, Stranding Tourists, Damaging Homes

Mexican resorts survive Hurricane Emily's wrath (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts escaped almost unscathed on Monday from Hurricane Emily, which blew down trees and cut power but nothing more serious.

Oil falls as Hurricane Emily eases (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Oil prices dropped on Monday as Hurricane Emily, which had shut in most of Mexico's crude oil production, lost strength.

Hurricane Emily Pounds Mexico, Heads Back Out to Sea (Update3) (Bloomberg.com)
July 18 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Emily moved into the Gulf of Mexico today after pounding the island of Cozumel and the Yucatan peninsula and forcing the evacuation of thousands of people on the Mexican mainland. The storm was forecast to strengthen as it moved out to sea.

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