(22 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Various of Veracruz coastline
2. Various of Veracruz streets with rain and strong wind
3. Small boat in the sea
4. Zoom into workers picking up debris from street of
5. Man standing on the seafront
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Cordoba, Veracruz resident, Voxpop:
"Yes, if it rains there are colonies (areas) where the drainage system can't take all the water and they start to flood, if the water level rises.
(Question: "Will there be flooding?")
"Yes, and we have to leave if it does. There is no other option. We are not going to drown there"
7. Wide of waves
8. Palm trees moving with strong winds
9. Woman walking in the rain
STORYLINE
Hurricane Dean's roared into Mexico's mainland on Wednesday with 100 miles per hour (160 kilometres per hour) winds as thousands fled to shelters.
The US National Hurricane Center in Miami said the storm's eye moved ashore shortly before 12 noon (1700 GMT) near the small port city of Tecolutla on the central Gulf coast.
Civil defence workers had already joined troops in moving residents on army trucks to inland shelters.
Dean strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall, with its outer bands buffeting the coast of Veracruz state.
Faced with the possibility of heavy flooding in the Veracruz area, one resident told AP Television the only option was to leave.
"There is no other option," said Francisco Cordoba, "We are not going to drown there."
South of Veracruz state, the storm surge flooded Ciudad del Carmen, a city of 120-thousand people.
Dean swept across the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday as a ferocious Category 5 hurricane, toppling trees, power lines and houses, but sparing glitzy resorts on the Mayan Riviera.
Officials said they had received no reports of deaths in the Yucatan Peninsula, though driving rain, poor communications and impassable roads made it difficult to determine how isolated Mayan communities fared in the sparsely populated jungle.
Dean killed 13 people in the Caribbean as it travelled through the region.
Greatly weakened as it passed over Yucatan, Dean moved across the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico, home to more than 100 oil platforms, three major oil exporting ports and the Cantarell oil field, Mexico's most productive.
Laguna Verde, Mexico's only nuclear power plant, suspended production.
Dean became the third most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in recorded history when it smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday.
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