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mtnester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 09:03 PM
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14. Hearing some not so good news about Isla Mujeres
Edited on Sat Oct-22-05 09:05 PM by mtnester
this is a quote from scuba kevin's board:

Isla Mujeres has reported an unprecidented 156 cm of rain (translates to roughly 5.2 feet of rain in the last 24 hours. 3 times the most rainfall on record from a Hurricane.

No one so far has been able to make any contact with anyone on Isla Mujeres. However, there is literally no phone service, and highway 307 is only being used in pieces by emergency vehicles.

Senor Frogs in Cancun damaged pretty bad:


and it appears that a lot of the beach is gone:



Playa De Carmen damage looks pretty bad - there is a listing here:
http://www.playamayanews.com/article593.html
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  -First hand account from Cozumel: babylonsister  Oct-22-05 07:54 PM   #0 
  - Good Lord! kicked and nominated n/t  AZDemDist6   Oct-22-05 08:08 PM   #1 
  - A MUST read! n/t  laylah   Oct-22-05 08:10 PM   #2 
  - like a hurricane  Loge23   Oct-22-05 08:11 PM   #3 
  - good luck to you  renate   Oct-23-05 12:18 AM   #20 
  - I think this must have been one of the worst  malaise   Oct-23-05 06:49 AM   #22 
  - That is just frightening!  Pithy Cherub   Oct-22-05 08:13 PM   #4 
  - Glad you made it through so well. Best of luck to all of you. Thanks  FloridaPat   Oct-22-05 08:19 PM   #5 
  - Unfortunately, Cancun is probably even worse  Dudley_DUright   Oct-22-05 08:20 PM   #6 
  - Has Mexicoexpat been heard from?  Hissyspit   Oct-22-05 08:27 PM   #7 
  - Nope, not a peep AFAIK since Thursday night. nt  babylonsister   Oct-22-05 08:28 PM   #8 
  - NYT says Isla Mujeres got more than 5 feet of rain in 24 hours.  lostnfound   Oct-22-05 08:36 PM   #9 
     - She was right in the thick of it. When she first posted, I wanted to say  Hissyspit   Oct-22-05 08:53 PM   #11 
        - I know. I just updated my post with info from NYT -- >5 ft of rain. nt  lostnfound   Oct-22-05 08:56 PM   #12 
           - Please see my post from #18 - or goto post #116 in the  stop the bleeding   Oct-22-05 10:37 PM   #19 
  - Hearing some not so good news about Isla Mujeres  mtnester   Oct-22-05 09:03 PM   #14 
     - And that's not an island.  Hissyspit   Oct-22-05 09:06 PM   #15 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Oct-22-05 08:36 PM   #10 
  - To enjoy the storms...  mia   Oct-22-05 09:02 PM   #13 
  - Here is another link to first hand hurricane news from Cancun  fed-up   Oct-22-05 10:21 PM   #16 
  - Wow  proud patriot   Oct-22-05 10:26 PM   #17 
  - This is from EuroObserver - a possible way to help, please read!  stop the bleeding   Oct-22-05 10:32 PM   #18 
     - Latest Update on likely reliable way aid to Isla Mujeres  EuroObserver   Oct-23-05 06:39 AM   #21 
        - from islamujeres.info  Lisa0825   Oct-24-05 04:46 PM   #23 
 

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