Hurricane Dean

• Mexico Braces for Hurricane Dean's Arrival

TULUM, Mexico (AP) - Hurricane Dean strengthened into a monstrous Category 5 storm Monday night as its first rain and winds began slamming the coasts of Mexico and Belize. Thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Riviera as it roared toward the ancient ruins and modern oil installations of the Yucatan Peninsula. Mexico's state oil company, Petroleos de Mexico, said it was evacuating all of its more than 18,000 offshore workers in the southern Gulf of Mexico, which includes the giant Cantarell oil field.

• Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
• August 21, 2007

• Director of the Office of Foreign Assistance at Usaid Ky Luu Holds a News Briefing On Preparations for and Response to Hurricane Dean and the Earthquake in Peru

USAID OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSISTANCE DIRECTOR KY LUU HOLDS A NEWS BRIEFING ON PREPARATIONS FOR AND RESPONSE TO HURRICANE DEAN AND THE EARTHQUA...

• Political Transcript Wire
• August 20, 2009

• Caribbean States Hard Hit by Hurricane Dean

I am quitting this place. I am moving. I can't stand this again," said Richard Williams, whose relatives lost almost everything they had in the storm in the Kingston capital area. "I just don't have the resources to rebuild every time. "It is a strong argument we have. It is becoming more difficult to get insurance for businesses and homes, and we want international lending institutions like the World Bank to have a special window for speedier assistance at times like these," said Guyana's Foreign Minister Rudy Insanally. "We want them to cut the lengthy bureaucracy to get assistance." "We need to be treated specially and differentially," Foreign Minister Insanally said. "We need to be placed in a special category because of the circumstances we fece."

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 20, 2009

• Roaring Hurricane Dean Strikes Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, Then Storm Weakens

FELIPE CARRILLO PUERTO, Mexico -- Hurricane Dean slammed into the Caribbean coast of Mexico on Tuesday as a roaring Category 5 hurricane, the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades. It lashed ancient Mayan ruins and headed for the modern oil installations of the Yucatan Peninsula. Dean's path was a stroke of luck for Mexico: It made landfall in a sparsely populated coastline that had already been evacuated, skirting most of the major tourist resorts. It weakened within hours to a Category 2 storm, with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 21, 2007

• Hurricane Dean Spares Caymans, On Collision Course with Mexico's Yucatan

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- Hurricane Dean spared the Cayman Islands the worst of its fury on Monday as it headed for a collision course with Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, sending tourists fleeing for the airports and locals searching for higher ground. Dean was already a powerful Category 4 storm as it raked the Cayman Islands. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could grow into a monstrous Category 5 hurricane before slashing across the Yucatan Peninsula and emerging in the Gulf of Campeche, dotted with oil rigs.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 20, 2007

• Hurricane Dean Blows Past Caymans

GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman (HedgeWorld.com) - Residents and firms of the Cayman Islands watched Hurricane Dean brush past on Monday [Aug. 20], its winds buffeting the island but causing little serious damage to the hedge fund service hub. Dean moved by south of the islands as a Category 4 hurricane, the second-strongest classification on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale. Dean, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, skewed about 100 miles south of the Cayman Islands and also slammed Jamaica, which sustained moderate damage. Earlier today [Aug. 21] Dean was upgraded to a Category 5 storm, boasting winds in excess of 155 miles per hour as it bore down on Mexico's Yucatn Peninsula.

• Daily News; White Plains
• August 22, 2007

• Hurricane Dean Trickle Wets Area

Clouds and rain brought in by Hurricane Dean teased area residents and brought a brief respite from the extreme heat. On Sunday night, the San Diego office of the National Weather service said that the few droplets that most saw, and the downpour a few endured, would move on and dissipate, said NWS Meteorologist Jennifer Chase.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• August 27, 2007

• Dean Pummels Jamaica: ; Hurricane Projected to Reach Category 5; Moving Toward Texas

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Hurricane Dean pummeled Jamaica on Sunday with gusting winds and torrential rains that blew the roofs off homes, caused landslides and flooded roads. The prime minister made a last-minute plea for residents to abandon their homes and head for shelter. However, many residents ignored the call, while tourists holed up in resorts with hurricane- proof walls.

• Charleston Gazette
• August 21, 2007

• Dean Bears Down: ; Jumbo Hurricane Threatens Texas

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Alarmed tourists jammed Caribbean airports for flights out of Hurricane Dean's path Saturday as the monster storm began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. The Category 4 storm's effects could be felt in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, where an 11-year-old boy was killed by flying debris while watching the waves strike an oceanfront boulevard, the Dominican emergency operations center reported.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• August 20, 2007

• Hurricane Dean Prompts Nasa to Shorten Spacewalk, Plan Early Endeavour Return

HOUSTON -- The astronauts aboard the shuttle Endeavour and the international space station prepared Saturday for the last spacewalk of their joint mission, an outing that was scaled back because of approaching Hurricane Dean. NASA shortened the spacewalk by two hours so Endeavour could return to Earth on Tuesday, a day early, if the storm appeared to threaten the Houston home of Mission Control.

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
• August 18, 2007