Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico

Effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico

Infobox Hurricane Impact
Name=Hurricane Dean
Type=hurricane
Year=2007
Basin=Atl
Image location=Dean 20 aug 2007 1841Z.jpg


Date=August 21, 2007
1-min winds=150
Pressure=905
Da

Inflated=
Fatalities=12 direct, 1 indirect
Areas=Mexico
Hurricane season=2007 Atlantic hurricane season
Series=Hurricane Dean
Related=Hurricane Dean Related
The effects of Hurricane Dean in Mexico were more severe than anywhere else in the storm's path. Hurricane Dean, the most intense storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season, formed in the Atlantic Ocean west of Cape Verde on August 14 2007. The Cape Verde-type hurricane sped through the Caribbean Sea, rapidly intensifying before making landfall on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Accurate forecasts of the storm's location and intensity enabled thorough preparations; nevertheless when the massive storm made landfall on the Yucatán Peninsula as a catastrophic Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale it damaged thousands of homes.

Weakening as it crossed the peninsula, Dean emerged into the Bay of Campeche and re-strengthened before making a second landfall in Veracruz. Although the second landfall did not bring winds as intense as the first, it brought more rainfall and caused devastating landslides in the Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Between the two landfalls, Dean caused Mex$2 billion (US$184 million; 2007 dollars) of damage and killed 13 people.

Preparations

First landfall

Forecasters and computer models at the Miami-based National Hurricane Center predicted that Hurricane Dean would impact the Yucatán Peninsula a full 6 days before the storm actually arrived.cite web|author=National Hurricane Center|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|date=2007-08-22|accessdate=2008-08-20|title=5-Day Track Forecast Cone and Watch/Warning|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/graphics/al04/loop_5W.shtml] The hurricane's stable and well predicted path gave all of the countries in the region ample time to prepare for its arrival. On August 17, at the request of the Quintana Roo state government, which was expecting their state to suffer a direct hit, the Civil Protection Office of Mexico's federal Interior Ministry declared a state of emergency for the entire state. This included the towns and cities of Cancún, Playa del Carmen, and Chetumal as well as the islands of Cozumel, Isla Mujeres and Holbox.

On August 18 authorities began evacuating people from parts of Quintana Roo, moving 2,500 people from Holbox Islandcite web | title = Declara SEGOB emergencia en Quintana Roo | url = http://www.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/654298.html | author = Staff writer | publisher = Notimex | date = 2007-08-17 | accessdate = 2007-08-17 | language = Spanish] cite news | title = Hurricane Dean bears down on Jamaica | author = Carlos Barria | publisher = Reuters | url = http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070818.wdean0818/BNStory/International/home | date = 2007-08-18 | accessdate = 2007-08-18] and a further 80,000 tourists from elsewhere in the state.cite web|author=AFP|date=2007-08-21|title=Hurricane Dean turns deadly|publisher=France 24|accessdate=2007-08-19|url=http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/archives/news/americas/20070821-hurricane-dean-category-5-mexico-calderon.php] Air-evacuations of tourists were stoppedcite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=Diario Directo|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=El huracán Dean se convierte en tormenta tropical tras dejar 12 muertos en el Caribe|url=http://www.diariodirecto.com/internacional/2007/08/21/262447535991.html|language=Spanish] when Dean's outer rainbands closed almost a dozencite web|author=PR Newswire|publisher=PRNewswire-FirstC|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=ASUR Update on Hurricane Dean|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32682980_ITM] Cancun and Cozumel airports on the evening of August 20. The Campeche airport closed shortly thereafter.cite web|author=Reuters|publisher=Reuters|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=Mexico closes airports due to dangerous hurricane|url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20273563.htm] The state government set up 530 storm shelters in schools and other public buildings, prepared to hold 73,000 people.cite web|author=United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)|publisher=Relief Web|date=2007-08-19|accessdate=2007-08-25|title=Hurricane Dean OCHA Situation Report No. 3|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-769457?OpenDocument&rc=2&emid=TC-2007-000135-LCA] With 20,000 food packages ready, the state of Yucatán, Quintana Roo's neighbor to the northwest, declared a green alert indicating a low but significant level of danger.cite web | title = Preparativos en Yucatán por el huracán Dean | url = http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?cx=11$3403000000$3620633&f=20070817 | date = 2007-08-17 | accessdate = 2007-08-18 | author = Staff writer | publisher = Diario de Yucatán | language =Spanish] cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=Family Friendly|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-22|title=U.S. Issues Public Announcement on Yucatan Travel|url=http://familyfriendly.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/us-issues-public-announcement-on-yucatan-travel/]

World Vision and other international aid agencies prepared blankets, sheets, personal hygiene items and medicines for quick transport to affected areas.cite web|author=Casey Calamusa and Brian Peterson|publisher=World Vision|date=2007-08-20|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=As Hurricane Dean bears down on Mexico, World Vision prepares response|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76A2BS?OpenDocument] The United States pre-positioned a three-person disaster management team into the Yucatán before the storm's arrival with the intent of helping coordinate disaster management if necessary.cite web|author=Ky Luu and Michele Bond|publisher=U.S. State Department|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-22|title=On-The-Record Briefing On U.S. Assistance to Earthquake and Hurricane|url=http://statelists.state.gov/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0708d&L=dospress&P=71] The U.S. State Department urged its citizens in Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Campeche to prepare for the storm and to evacuate if necessary. The department also relocated its non-essential personnel from those states to Mexico City. At 1500 UTC on August 19 a hurricane watch was issued on the Yucatán Peninsula from Chetumal to San Felipe and final preparations were rushed to completion.cite web|author=Franklin/Rhome|date=2007-08-19|title=Hurricane Dean Public Advisory Twenty Six|publisher=National Hurricane Center|accessdate=2007-08-19|url=http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2007/al04/al042007.public.026.shtml?]

econd landfall

On August 20, warnings for Dean's second landfall were issued. The Mexican coast from Progresso to Ciudad del Carmen was put under a hurricane warning and the Mexican coast from Cancun at the tip of the Yucatán Peninsula west to Progresso. At 0300 UCT, August 21, a tropical storm watch was issued for the Mexican coast from Chilitepec to Veracruz, and a hurricane watch was issued from Chilitepec to Tampico, Tamaulipas. As Dean began to cross the Yucatán Peninsula and maintained its structure better than forecasters had expected, these watches and warnings were expanded. At their peak, a hurricane warning covered the area from Campeche, Campeche to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, and a tropical storm warning stretched from Tampico to La Cruz, Tamaulipas.

Residents in Veracruz stocked up on essential supplies, especially food and water, ahead of the storm's second landfall. [cite web|author=Tomas Bravo|publisher=Reuters Foundation|date=2007-08-22|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=Hurricane Dean slams Mexico's gulf coast, weakens|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/EKOI-76C4PS?OpenDocument] At the request of the government of Veracruz, Mexico's Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Ramírez Acuña declared a state of emergency for 81 municipalities ahead of Hurricane Dean's expected landfall in the state. This gave local authorities access to the resources of the Revolving Fund of the National Natural Disaster Fund to take care of the nutrition, health, and shelter their populations should the storm's damage require it.cite web|author=Jorge Ramos Pérez|publisher=El Universal|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=Huracán Dean: Emite Segob emergencia en 81 municipios de Veracruz|url=http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/444337.html|language=Spanish]

Although Dean was still a hurricane and was expected to re-strengthen slightly before making its second landfall, the fact that it had weakened caused some residents to let down their guard.cite web|author=NPR|publisher=National Public Radio|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=Hurricane Dean Weakens, Expected to Spare Texas|url=http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13817871] As a result, residents of Veracruz and Campeche were much less prepared for the storm than those on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Impact

First landfall

The hurricane hit land near Majahual on the Quintana Roo coast of the Yucatán Peninsula at 0830 UTC on August 21. Wind gusts of 200 mph (320 km/h) were reported. The state's tourist cities of Cancún and Cozumel were spared the worst of the storm, but it wreaked havoc in the state capital Chetumal, some 40 mi (65 km) south of landfall, causing significant flooding. cite web|publisher=Yahoo!|author=Mark Stevenson (AP)|date=2007-08-21|title= Category 5 Hurricane Dean slams Mexico|accessdate=2007-08-21|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5RGSPIwrU] Communication with the Mayan communities near the landfall location was initially difficult, but the town of Majahual, which had a population of 200, was "almost flattened" by the storm. Storm surge and high winds severely damaged or destroyed hundreds of buildingscite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/08/26/TREVRN98B.DTL|title=Travelers' Checks: Hurricane Dean knocks out Costa Maya cruise port|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=2007-08-26|accessdate=2007-08-27|author=Spud Hilton, John Flinn, Larry Habegger] and had the strength to crumple steel girders. About 15,000 families were left homeless, primarily in small villages around Quintana Roo. At the Costa Maya cruise port, waves tore away portions of the concrete docks and destroyed the boardwalk. The damage made the port unsuitable for cruise ships, effectively freezing the region's tourism industry until they could be repaired.cite web|url=http://www.fodors.com/news/story_2690.html|title=Hurricane Dean: Don't Cancel Your Trip|accessdate=2008-06-27|date=2007-08-29|publisher=Fordor's|author=Staff Writers] The hurricane's winds damaged 2.3 million ha (5.7 million acres) of jungle, almost all of it in Quintana Roo, Yucatan, and Campeche.

At its first landfall, the bulk of Hurricane Dean's damage was to agriculture. 12,000 producers suffered losses, mostly in the states of Quintana Roo and Yucatán. 30,000&nsbp;ha (74,000 acre) of habanero peppers were destroyed, along with 150,000 ha (370,000 acre) of corn and 60,000 ha (150,000 acre) of citrus. Extensive damage to fields planted with bananas, avocados, cucumbers, squash, jalapeño peppers, and other crops were also reported on the Yucatán Peninsula.

Mexican president Felipe Calderón cut short a visit to Canada to return to Mexico and assess the damage. Hurricane Dean's Category 5 landfall–the first such landfall in the Atlantic basin in 15 years–took no lives. International organizations, including the United Nations, attributed this to the government's thorough preparations and forecasters' ample warning.

econd landfall

The next day, at 1630 UTC on August 22, Hurricane Dean made a second landfall, this time near the town of Tecolutla, Veracruz, as a Category 2 hurricane. Following the second landfall on the Veracruz coast, two rivers in the mountains of the state of Hidalgo overflowed, and rain fell as far west as the Pacific coast. Veracruz Governor Fidel Herrera said there was "a tremendous amount of damage". [cite news|url=http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-foreign26aug26|title=Hurricane Dean's wake: updates from Mexico & the Caribbean|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=2007-08-23|accessdate=2007-08-27|author=Diana Dawson] Petroleum production was not severely damagedcite web|author=Staff Writers|publisher=The Sunday Telegraph|date=2007-08-24|accessdate=2007-08-24|title=Hurricane Dean rains pound Mexico|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22299490-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss] and quickly returned to normal, although its brief interruption was responsible for a 6% year-on-year decrease in third quarter.cite web|author=Catherine Bremer|publisher=Reuters|date=2007-10-30|accessdate=2008-08-23|title=Most Mexican crude exports halted by bad weather|url=http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29503179.htm]

Hurricane Dean, at its second landfall, dropped 4 to 8 in (100 to 200 mm) of rainfall across the states of Jalisco and Nayarit. [cite web|publisher=CONAGUA|author=Servicio Meteorológico Nacional Mexico|url=http://www.webcitation.org/5RN9OAnZN |title=Remanentes del Ciclón Tropical "Dean"|date=2007-08-03|accessdate=2007-08-25] This rainfall trigged a mudslide in Jalisco which fell on 10 houses and killed one of the occupants.cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=earthtimes.org|date=2007-08-24|accessdate=2007-08-24|title= Death toll reaches 11 from Hurricane Dean in Mexico|url=http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/97770.html] Landslides in Puebla killed five people, and another was crushed when a wall in his house collapsed. One person in Veracruz was electrocuted after touching a power line while repairing his roof. In Michoacán, as the outer bands of the storm swept over the state, a man sheltering under a tree was struck by lightning.cite web|author=Staff Writers|publisher=The Sunday Telegraph|date=2007-08-24|accessdate=2007-08-24|title=Hurricane Dean rains pound Mexico|url=http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22299490-5001028,00.html?from=public_rss] cite web|author=Tomas Bravo|publisher=Reuters|date=2007-08-22|accessdate=2007-08-22|title=Hurricane Dean slams Mexico's Gulf coast, kills two|url=http://mobile.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N22182914.htm] Two women died in Hidalgo when heavy rain collapsed their house's roof. Another man drowned while trying to cross a rain-swollen river in Tlacolula, Oaxaca. The heavy rains caused dozens of smaller landslides throughout the country, particularly in Veracruz and Tabasco, but most of them caused no fatalities.cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=El Economista|date=2007-08-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title="Dean" deja 10 muertos y severas afectaciones|url=http://eleconomista.com.mx/articulos/2007-08-23-43184/|language=Spanish] At least 50,000 houses were damaged to varying degrees throughout the country.cite web|author=International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies|publisher=Relief Web|date=2008-04-21|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=Emergency Appeal. Caribbean and Mexico: Hurricane Dean|format=PDF|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2008.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/KKAA-7DX2MZ-full_report.pdf/$File/full_report.pdf] Although Dean's rains caused flooding as far inland as Mexico City, where they closed a portion of Puebla-Mexico highway, the damage was concentrated in the provinces of Quintana Roo and Veracruz.

As with its first landfall, Hurricane Dean damaged crops throughout its impact area. In Puebla it destroyed 135,000 ha (335,000 acre) of corn and more than 22,000 ha (54,000 acre) of coffee, while in Veracruz 15,000 ha (37,000 acre) of various crops were lost. Unlike in Belize and the Eastern Caribbean, the storm spared the sugarcane crop in Veracruz.

Between the hurricane's two landfall, Dean affected an estimated 207,800 people in the states of Quintana Roo, Campeche, Veracruz, Hildalgo, Puebla and Tabasco. The storm damaged 85 miles (140 km) of power lines and left more than 100,000 people without electricity.cite web|author=Miguel Hidalgo|publisher=Relief Web|date=2007-10-31|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=México: El Presidente Calderón en la entrega de viviendas a damnificados por el Huracán Dean|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/LRON-78JF7E?OpenDocument|language=Spanish] Landslides, storm tides, and widespread structural damage combined to compromise water sources throughout the country. The extent of the damage was never calculated at a federal level, but hundreds of villages lost access to fresh water in the days following the storm.cite web|author=Samaritan's Purse|publisher=Relief Web|date=2007-08-31|accessdate=2008-08-21|title=Ministry in the aftermath of Hurricane Dean|url=http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/SODA-76Q83M?OpenDocument] Hurricane Dean killed 12 people in Mexico but none of the deaths occurred during its first and most powerful landfall on the Yucatan Peninsula. Between the two landfalls the storm caused a total of Mex$2 billion (US$184 million) of damages.cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=Agrointernet|date=2007-09-11|accessdate=2008-09-12|title=Mas de 2 mil millones de pesos los daños por dean en Quinta Roo|url=http://www.agrointernet.com.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1658&Itemid=2|language=Spanish]

Aftermath

Post-storm analysis showed that, while less deadly, Dean's first and more powerful landfall caused significantly more infrastructural damage than its second. Where the landfall occurred at the town of Majahual specifically, and the state of Quintana Roo generally, communities took longer to recover than in the rest of the country.cite web|url = http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL042007_Dean.pdf|title = Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Dean|accessdate = 2008-06-27|date = 2008-01-31|publisher = National Hurricane Center|author=James L. Franklin|format=PDF] Quintana Roo Governor Felix Gonzalez Cantor reported that although the cleanup in the state capital of Chetumal was completed within three weeks, it took more than six months to fix all of the region's rural roads.cite web|url=http://www.fodors.com/news/story_2690.html|title=Hurricane Dean: Don't Cancel Your Trip|accessdate=2008-06-27|date=2007-08-29|publisher=Fordor's] Unable to handle the hurricane's aftermath, the state government appealed to federal authorities and secured Mex$755 million (US$74.8 million) of aid. Combined with the state's contribution of $270 million (US$26.7 million), a housing-repair fund of over $1,025 million (US$101.5 million) was established. In the three months immediately following the storm, over 37,000 houses were rebuilt or repaired using monies from this fund.

In the days following the hurricane, immediate access to clean water was a priority for international aid agencies working in Mexico.cite web|author=Staff Writer|publisher=The GlobalGiving Foundation|date=2007-12-17|accessdate=2008-08-22|title=Hurricane Dean Disaster Relief in Yucatan, Mexico|url=http://www.globalgiving.com/pr/1900/proj1828a.html?RF=sedge] The National Commission of Water spent another $25 million (US$2.47 million) of federal funds repairing the damaged infrastructure for irrigation and drinking water.

Carnival Cruise Lines and Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world's two largest cuise operators, diverted their ships away from the damaged cruise port of Puerto Costa Maya. Their plans originally expected diversions until at least 2009,cite web|author=AP|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=2007-09-19|accessdate=2008-07-24|title=Much Hurricane Dean damage at Mexico's Puerto Costa Maya|url=http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-hurricane-dean-damage-at-mexico-port19sep07?parent=tours-cruises&type=interests] but the Mexican government was quick to fund rebuilding of the destroyed concrete piers. By June 2008 they were rebuilt to accommodate even larger ships than before, and ships scheduled stops there for September 2008.cite web|author=Joel|publisher=NetCot|date=2008-06-20|accessdate=2008-07-24|title=Disney Magic To Return To Costa Maya|url=http://www.netcot.com/thesite/2008/06/20/disney-magic-to-return-to-costa-maya/]

The Mexican government was initially lauded for its swift and thorough preparation to which most observers, including the United Nations, attributed Dean's low death toll.cite web|author=United Nations|publisher=Scoop Independent News|date=2007-08-22|accessdate=2008-07-28|title=UN Teams Assessing Aftermath Of Hurricane Dean|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0708/S00568.htm] cite web|author=Diego Cevallos|publisher=Interpress Service|date=2007-08-24|accessdate=2008-07-28|title=Mexico: U.N. applauds nation for hurricane disaster prevention|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-32716228_ITM] However after the storm there were several accusations of political motivation in the distribution of aid. Members of President Felipe Calderón's Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) distributed bags of bread, funded by the nation's disaster relief coffers, carrying the party's logo. In Veracruz Governor Fidel Herrera was accused by both the PAN and his own Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) of using state resources, including hurricane relief, to support the campaigns of PRI candidates.cite web|author=SourceMex|publisher=Goliath Business Knowledge on Demand|date=2007-08-29|accessdate=2008-07-28|title=Hurricane Dean causes minimal damage in Mexico despite storm's high intensity|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-6907248/HURRICANE-DEAN-CAUSES-MINIMAL-DAMAGE.html]

ee also

*Hurricane Dean
*List of Category 5 Atlantic hurricanes

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