Cancun, Mexico — Rabbi Mendel Druk, co-director of the new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in Cancun, Mexico, reported on Tuesday that despite expectations, Hurricane Dean largely spared the resort area's Jewish community the brunt of its wrath.
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Cancun, Mexico — Rabbi Mendel Druk, co-director of the new Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Center in Cancun, Mexico, reported on Tuesday that despite expectations, Hurricane Dean largely spared the resort area’s Jewish community the brunt of its wrath.
Dean slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, early on Tuesday as a monster Category 5 storm with maximum sustained winds of 165 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. But it was quickly downgraded to a lesser Category 2 storm by the time it made it back over open waters in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to Druk, who hours before the storm had assured the safety of the last of the Jewish tourists in Cancun ñ most heeded his pleas and that of authorities to evacuate ñ the fact that Dean’s eye-wall made landfall south of the resort destination helped tremendously.
With the worst past but winds still howling outside, Druk said by telephone that, “Thank G-d, everyone I got in contact with made it out.”
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