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Cancun Beach Before Hurricane Wilma. This set is intended to show what beach conditions were like in Cancun before a series of tropical storms and hurricanes, especially Hurricane Wilma, so severely damaged Cancun's beaches.
Wilma was attended by a significant storm surge, estimated as high as 4.6 m (15 ft) by the NHC, which resulted in extensive beach erosion. The hurricane also damaged coral reefs offshore. In Cancún, the wave action washed away about 700,000 m 3 (247 million ft 3) of sand from beaches.
21 paź 2015 · Thousands of visitors, hotel staff and local residents were moved off the island to hurricane shelters downtown. On Friday, October 21, Wilma made landfall between Cancun and Playa del Carmen as an extremely dangerous and slow moving Category 4 storm with winds reaching 150 miles per hour.
2 sty 2007 · Our favorite thing about Cancun are the beaches; which prior to Hurricane Wilma were simply some of the most beautiful in the world with sand like fine baking powder and crystal clear, calm beaches and crystalline turqouise waters.
24 paź 2005 · CANCUN, Mexico — Mexico’s economy took a big blow from Hurricane Wilma, with some palatial beachfront hotels at the heart of its tourism industry left in ruins and shopping centers emptied by...
12 gru 2005 · The back-to-back construction of about 40 hotels right on the edge of Cancún’s flagship beach has left a fragile ecosystem dangerously out of balance.
