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    Hurricane Wilma tears into Mexican resorts
    (AP)
    Updated: 2005-10-22 08:55

    Juan Luis Flores, an emergency services official in Quintana Roo state, said about 65,000 people were evacuated. Mexico's civil defense chief, Carmen Segura, assured people "their families are protected as they should be."

    But instead of luxury hotel suites over a turquoise sea, many tourists found themselves sleeping on the floors of hotel ballrooms, schools and gymnasiums reeking of sweat because there was no power or air conditioning.

    Scott and Jamie Stout of Willisville, Ill., were spending their honeymoon on a Cancun basketball court with a leaky roof.

    "After one more day of this, I believe people will start getting cranky," said Scott Stout, 26. "Things could get messy."

    A Cuban farmer sorts food for his animals in his tobacco house destroyed by a tornado in Calderon in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba October 21, 2005.
    A Cuban farmer sorts food for his animals in his tobacco house destroyed by a tornado in Calderon in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba October 21, 2005. [Reuters]
    The Stouts, at least, had food and coffee. Devon Anderson, 21, of Sacramento, Calif., was sharing 10 rooms at a rundown Cozumel school with 200 other Americans.

    "We are all sleeping on the floor," Anderson said. "There's no food, no water."

    At the Xbalamque Hotel, a downtown Cancun shelter for evacuees from beachfront resorts, American tourist Becky Hora, 37, watched floodwaters rise up the steps toward the lobby as winds howled and trees thudded to the ground.

    "It's awful," she said. "I thought that last night we had made it through the worst of it. And now it turns out this is only the beginning. It's hard to stay calm."

    Ronnie Croley, 46, said he lost power at his Madison, Miss., home for four days after Hurricane Katrina struck, then he helped his company clean up a factory damaged by Hurricane Rita.

    "This was supposed to be a little break for us, but now here we are again," he said.

    Wilma briefly strengthened to Category 5 and became the most intense hurricane recorded in the Atlantic Ocean with 882 millibars of pressure, breaking the record low of 888 set by Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. Lower pressure brings faster winds.


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