Well, it is moving over VERY warm waters (84 degrees or so), so I’m glad it’s a fast-mover.
Where’d everybody go? Ummm, the GMA met Sam Champion reported from Cancun. He indicated he thought landfall would be near Chetumal.
At least, I *think* that’s where he meant. He said “Chee-toe-mowl.” I’m sure he meant “Shay-too-mall.”
I think that’s slightly south of where LF *might* be - because I’m rooting for Monkeyville - a fictitious spot of my own imaginings somewhere between Chetumal on the south and Tulum on the north (both sacred spots) which leads right into the unpopulated monkey jungle that pretty much covers the interior of the Yucatan.
He also said that the 75,000 tourists who are to be evac’ed from Cancun (some of those came over by ferry from Cozumel, too) today are *flying* out. Ummm, that’s not the way *I* heard it. Many were interviewed by our local reporters from HouTX on the ground there in QRoo and said they were being taken by bus to Merida.
Dean’s gonna be knock-knock-kickin’ in the door there tonight!
Also, the hurricane warning/watch goes all the way around the coast from the southern tip of Belize to Cancun/Cozumel to Isla Mujeres to Merida to Ciudad del Carmen, according to the shaded area they showed in a graphic.
Prayers continue for all in the path, except where the choice is monkeys or people - then people take precedence.
