(21 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST
Chetumal
1. Wide pan of heavy rain and trees bending in wind
2. Power cables being blown around by wind
3. Fallen tree branch, tilt-up to remainder of tree
4. Various of people in front of building, zoom in to women with towels on shoulders
5. Two girls inside house
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Sanchez Martinez, local resident:
"We spent all night watching the disaster, how all the glass was being broken."
7. Zoom out from tourists on balcony of building watching storm
Playa Del Carmen
8. Wide of waves breaking by the pier
9. Choppy waves
10. Palm trees blowing in wind
11. Emergency vehicle driving down deserted street
12. Tarpaulin strapped to building being blown by wind
13. Corrugated iron roofing part torn off
14. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Lino Viga, tourist from Rome:
"Worried, no, I'm not worried. Because I've seen the people living here seem to be very calm, because they are used to such a phenomenon. If it was in Europe where people are not used to it, it would be total chaos but here people are calm, they were prepared. They secured their houses and their businesses and their calm has made us calm as well."
15. Various of police standing by car, wind blowing trees in the background
Cancun
16. Various of popular tourist beach in Cancun with waves crashing against shore
17. People standing on deck in wind
18. Workers pulling up fallen street sign
19. Workers removing protective wooden boards from windows
20. SOUNDBITE: (English) name not given, Tourist from Holland:
"Yeah, only rain and some storm but we thought it was going to be all over the place, and yeah, the hotel has taken care of everything and so we were in a good place".
21. Various of people mopping up floor of hotel
22. Wide of military convoy
23. Various of military personnel watching traffic
24. Side shot of military convoy
25. Military convoy moving away
STORYLINE
Hurricane Dean slammed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades.
The storm toppled trees and flooded streets but reportedly caused no more deaths as it raced across the Yucatan Peninsula to the heart of Mexico's oil industry.
Dean's path was a stroke of luck for Mexico: it made landfall along a sparsely populated coastline, well to the south of the major tourist resorts where 50-thousand tourists had been evacuated.
The hurricane, which caused 13 deaths in the Caribbean, weakened within hours of striking Mexico to a Category 1 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour (140 kilometres per hour).
By mid-afternoon, however, dangerous winds reached the city of Campeche on the peninsula's western coast, and people hunkered down to ride out the storm.
And the National Hurricane Centre warned that it would regain strength as it moves through the lower Gulf of Mexico, where more than 100 offshore oil platforms were evacuated ahead of the storm.
The eye passed directly over Quintana Roo's capital of Chetumal, where residents were ordered to stay inside their homes until 10 a.m. local time (1500GMT) on Tuesday after a harrowing night with windows shattering and heavy water tanks flying off rooftops.
"We spent all night watching the disaster, how all the glass was being broken," one local resident Sanchez Martinez told AP Television.
Sirens wailed constantly as the storm battered the city for hours, hurling billboards down streets. All electricity was down.
In the aftermath of the storm AP Television footage from Chetumal showed the winds still raging and heavy rains.
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