The concrete cruise dock is pretty much gone.... I can’t believe she stayed with a 7 month old!!!! First Hand Account Here:
``It wasn’t minutes of terror. It was hours,’’ said Catharine Morales, 30, a native of Montreal, Canada, who has lived in Majahual for a year. ``The walls felt like they were going to explode.’’
One of a handful people to ignore military orders to evacuate, she weathered the storm in her new brick-walled house with her husband and 7-month-old baby. Winds of 165 mph - with gusts of 200 mph, faster than the takeoff speed of many passenger jets - blew out windows and pulled pieces from their roof.
Hundreds of homes were collapsed in Majahual when Dean’s eye passed almost directly overhead, crumpling steel girders, splintering wooden structures and washing away about half of the immense concrete dock that transformed the sleepy fishing village into Mexico’s second-busiest cruise ship destination. The storm surge covered almost the entire town in waist-deep sea water.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6866906,00.html
Winds 27.2kts gusting to 35
Waves 7.2ft
I don't even want to imagine that crashing into a densely-populated area.
Looky,,,We posted about this place...
Prayers for the health and wellbeing of this baby especially in view of its foolish parents.
Thank you for posting the article link. It’s one of the most well written reports I’ve seen in the past week regarding the storm.
While I didn’t much care one way or the other about the cruise port “shopping/recreation” area, I did care very much about Mahahual. A woman named Barbara owns the Cat’s Meow bar and grill right on the beach. My husband and I sat 10 feet from the water back in March. The people of Mahahual are so friendly and the atmosphere was very festive. Unfortunately, the infrastructure in the area was very primitive - many homes didn’t have electricity yet. We considered buying beachfront property about 2-3 miles north of Mahahual because it was so beautiful, unspoiled and inexpensive. I expect that all the palm trees and palapas around the Mahahual area, as well as the hotel and many of the homes are simply....gone.
Prayers up for Barbara, her husband, and all the people of Mahahual. I hope they got out safely.