"You can do it!"
Posted on 10/25/2005 7:47:54 AM PDT by Vaquero
30,000 Tourists Still Stranded in Mexico By WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
CANCUN, Mexico - Hurricane Wilma is long gone, but those it left stranded on Mexico's Caribbean coast are tired, fed up and ready to go home after spending the better part of a week in foul-smelling shelters.
President Vicente Fox said getting the tourists home — and then getting them back again by the start of tourism's high season in December.....
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As Jimmy Buffett would say:
I don't know the reason I stayed here all season,
Nothin' to show but this brand new tattoo -
But it's a real beauty, a Mexican cutie,
How it got here I haven't a clue.
Wastin' away again in Margaritaville....
And that was BEFORE the hurricane.
I've never had the least, even remotest desire to ever go to Mexico. The place is totally uninteresting to me.
The cluelessness is worse that it appears at first. All the hotels in Cancun have English-language cable TV, including international CNN. You can buy the daily New York Times and Miami Herald there, as well. People on vacation in a hurricane zone during hurricane season need to use a little common sense and check the weather reports daily. Even if you couldn't get a flight out, you could rent a car and drive to Merida, an inland city that is safe, and beautiful, well before the storm began to close in.
Waaaah! Waaaah! I wanna vacation in hurricane country during hurricane season because it's cheaper but don't want to incurr any of the associated risks! I'm a liberal! Life isn't supposed to have any risks! Waaaaah! Waaaaah!
Hey, millions of Mexicans get to this country with a few bucks in their pockets and the clothes they are wearing.
Cozumel/Cancun message board
http://stormcarib.com/reports/2005/mexico.shtml
Can you even stand it? It hasn't occurred to these crybabies to get off their lard-asses and figure it out. I swear to God people like this make my head explode. If for some reason, I did not get out and had to sit in a shelter during that horrendous storm, I would have occupied my time with coming up with a plan to get myself back home. Some people apparently did just that.
I can think of worse places to be stranded after a hurricane. As long as there is still beer to be found, survival would be relatively easy. If you have to drink the water, you're doomed.
Gotta love the locals painting that rosy picture to get tourism back. I couldn't believe the BS they were writing on StormCaribe after Ivan DESTROYED Grand Cayman. Everything is great here, come enjoy. In reality roving gangs of machete wielding punks were cleaning out of homes whatever Ivan left.
"I feel the Mexican government is helping here to an extent, doing the best they can," said Kevin Riley, town finance administrator for Paw Paw, Mich. "But the U.S. has done nothing. Where is our government? They are only preparing for Florida. They forgot about us."
I am absolutely THRILLED to hear that the US government is not concerning themselves with the needs of incompetent American dopes stranded in other countries through their own inaction.
Paw, paw Mr Riley, the Mexican government is obviously much better suited to the sort of hand holding and baby sitting you need in your life. Please stay where you are.
"You can do it!"
Cancun has changed. A lof of migrants have come pouring in to live on the outside and there is a class friction between the rich hotel sector and them.
These people were moved to shelters with overflowing toilets, urine of the floors, no ac, very little water and very little food.
Also the migrants took advantage of the storm and looted the whole place. Mexican authorities were also having tantrums when tourists tried to use the generators to get their cell phones recharged.
Granted these tourists should have known on Tuesday to get out of there. Many of them weren't paying attention and found out too late.
AP's whole goal is to find someone to blame Bush on any story. U.S arranged buses to move tourists to the other side of the coast immediately after the storm. U.S also has arranged for airlines to help u.s tourists out. Enough of the whining about the U.S.
Stuck on stupid again?
I don't know
where I'm a gonna go
when the volcano blow
I just went to Cancun for the first time. Most miserable trip of my life.
Cozumel is excellent. Been there twice, was going back in December (probably not now, it's pretty much trashed). The people were very friendly (seemingly much more so than on the mainland).
IIRC, those Corona Beer "paradise" commercials were filmed on or about Coz. It is (was) beautiful. Hope it can make a come-back.
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