Hurricane Wilma was a Catastrophe for the resort regions of the Yucatan, but now Cancun and Cozemel are being cleaned up for hopefully a late season tourist rebound. Unfortunately that clean-up effort is going to be seriously curtailed by Tropical Storm Gamma, which will drop heavy rain on the area. Wilma waged war on the region as she broke Western World Weather records, some say the area may never be the same. Many people who had scheduled vacations there this winter are finding themselves re-routing to other Caribbean destinations, but the 2005 Tropical Hurricane Season is still not over yet. Meanwhile last week Puerto Rico was pummeled by a tropical depression number 27, which some say should have been called a Tropical Storm Gamma. But instead now we have Tropical Storm Gamma formed in a similar place as Hurricane Wilma. It will take the resort areas until next year to get back to anything that appears to be normal and Mexico will have lost Billions in their tourist trade by then. Still worse is the threat that Tropical Storm Gamma may drop as much as 10 inches on the already ruined resort region. This will only hamper the reconstruction efforts as roads are flooded, power is still out in many places and most of the buidlings were damaged. Think on this. |
