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

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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.

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

The eye of the storm hit land near Majahual, a port popular with cruise liners, and it was racing across the Yucatan Peninsula toward a Tuesday afternoon entry into the Bay of Campeche, where the state oil company evacuated the oil rigs that produce most of Mexico's oil.

In the largely Mayan town o...

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