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/ 28 September 2007
Hurricane Lorenzo weakened into a tropical storm early on Friday after crashing into Mexico’s Gulf Coast, where it knocked out electricity, flooded roads and uprooted trees. Hundreds of people from low-lying communities were forced to seek higher ground.
Hurricane Dean raced through Mexico’s southern Gulf on Wednesday, whipping up wild winds and roaring seas around oil platforms that produce crude for export to the United States. Dean hammered Mexico’s Caribbean resort of Tulum and swallowed sand from the famous beach at Cancun before crossing the Yucatan Peninsula out into the Gulf of Mexico.
Northeastern Mexico braced for heavy rains along the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday as Tropical Storm Gert approached land, threatening to douse areas already soaked by Hurricane Emily last week. Gert packed sustained winds of 65kph and was expected to move inland late on Sunday about 500km south of the United States border near Tampico,