Hurricane Dean hits the Yucatan
I’m getting in touch with people I know down there, and I’ll post news as I hear it. First off, it seems no one was killed–in part, I think, because Hurricane Wilma was so terrible, so a lot of people on the coast heeded warnings to evacuate.
So far, I think we can safely say that anywhere north of the Sian Ka’an reserve (basically, the scope of Cancun Directions) is relatively OK–I just got a note from Esencia hotel, for instance, which is midway between Playa and Tulum, saying the property just had some landscaping damage, but is otherwise fine. However, this CNN story says about a third of the beach huts in Tulum were damaged, but those should be relatively easy to repair.
I’ll be back down in the area in early November–it will be good to see the place firsthand.