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    As Jan says below, Hurricane Dean took all this out on August 21, 2007.

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    1. JanCaro (58 months ago | reply)

      Sorry, Brother, but your link to this picture in you blog re Hurricain Dean is in error. The above idylic spot probably did not survive. This is Costa Maya, not Playa del Carmen, Actually, this picture was taken at the town the ship's crew told us about. We went by taxi when the ship pulled into Costa Maya, a very commercial cruise ship destination that was recently carved out of the jungle in Mexico 175 miles south of Cancun, just above the border with Belize. This part of the town was just a sand street along the water, the restaurants just grass-roofed platform. The people were wonderful and the meal was fantastic.

      I just hope all the folks who lived there got out before Dean, at Cat. 5 strength, hit it. The town, which I believe was Majahual, was hit with 165mph winds with gusts up to 200 mph and some reports say that waist-deep water now covers most of the town.

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