(22 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST
++DAY SHOTS++
Veracruz
1. Waves crashing along road
2. Wind blowing palm trees
3. Waves crashing over barrier
4. Driving shot of boats on road and trees downed
5. Fisherman using bucket to get water out of boat
6. Wide of street scene
7. Exterior of emergency shelter
8. Wide of residents sitting at a long table
9. Close up of woman sitting with child
10. Close up of child
11. Medium of family sitting at table
12. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Primitivo Morales, evacuee, Vox pop:
"Because when we were there (at home), we got flooded and we don't want to risk the same thing happening again, so it's better that we prevent that from happening."
13. Two girls walking past cots pans to little girl sitting on cot
14. Wide of harbour
15. Close up of boat
16. Wide of choppy and wind swept water
Tampico
++NIGHT SHOTS++
17. Cars driving through lots of water
18. Cars driving through lots of water
++DAY SHOTS++
19. Wide of rain swollen streets
21. School girls walking through the rain
22. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): No name given, local resident, Vox pop:
"Yeah, we are frightened, we all work hard, and if you look around there are all those big trees and we don't want them to cause any damage to our business."
23. Wide shot of street
Poza Rica
++NIGHT SHOTS++
12. Police car driving past in the rain
13. Close up of palm trees
14. Emergency vehicle driving past in the dark pans to waves crashing on side of road
15. Man walking by with umbrella
16. Medium of boat on road
18. Waves crashing over barrier
Veracruz
19. Wideshot of harbour
20. Palm tree blowing
21. Wide of people walking in the early morning
22. Medium of windows taped up against the storm
23. Close up of people having breakfast inside taped up windows
24. Palm tree blowing
STORYLINE
Hurricane Dean raked the Mexican mainland on Wednesday and battered evacuated oil platforms, forcing thousands to flee as
it regained some of the force it unleashed on the Yucatan Peninsula.
Hurricane-force winds were just off the coast of Veracruz state as the sprawling storm grew back to Category 2 status, with winds of 160 kilometres per hour (100 miles per hour), before a projected midday landfall.
The centre of the storm was projected to slam into the mainland around Tuxpan - with hurricane force winds extending out 110
kilometres (70 miles) miles.
At 1500 GMT, Dean was a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 160 kph (100 mph) and was centered about 125 kilometres (75 miles) east-southeast of Tuxpan, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said.
The sprawling storm's outer winds buffeted the coast of Veracruz state, and its more powerful centre was expected to slam ashore later in the day.
South of Veracruz state, the storm surge flooded Ciudad del Carmen, a city of 120,000 people.
Dean had swept across the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday after making landfall 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 from that overland journey, 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.
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