Governor of Quintana Roo Address
August 17, 2007 11:54 pm Previous Hurricanes ArchiveReproduced from Cancunweathertoday.com
The Governor of the State of Quintana Roo Felix Gonzalez addressed tonight to the people of Quintana Roo. He informed that the Green alert will remain for the state until the tropical cyclone gets closer to the Island of Jamaica. Although Dean is still at 1,500 miles of the coast of Quintana Roo it is necessary to take some preventive actions to protect life in case of a hurricane impact.
1.- As of tonight all the airlines flying to Cancun are advising to the passengers before arriving to Cancun and Cozumel airport that there are probabilities or severe weather conditions for early next week, according to the Cancun airport administration it is estimated that around 60,000 tourist would arrive to Cancun on this weekend and in case of an emergency it will be really hard to evacuate to all them from the region (more than 80,000) and this would complicate the emergency plans to protect them. There will be planes arriving empty on this weekend to facilitate the evacuations of the tourists, if besides of this advise you are planning to come to Cancun do it at your own risk, if you are in Cancun already contact your airline to arrange your departure no longer than Monday morning. The Cancun and Cozumel airports will be operating normally during this weekend.
2.- He mentioned he had meetings with the hoteliers of Cancun, Cozumel and the Mayan Riviera and all agree that it is better not to have tourists in the area for a few days than expose then to the danger that a hurricane represents, that is the reason because they decided to alert tourist arriving for the next couple days.
3.- The Chinchorro Keys was evacuated today and the Island of Holbox will do the same tomorrow, this is a preventive action since on those areas the storm surge are strong.
4.- He will be supervising personally all the actions to protect the people of Quintana Roo and the visitors that for some reason they have to stay in the region.
Over the course of tomorrow there will be more information for Isla Mujeres, Playa del Carmen and the Mayan Riviera.
The next information will be issued tomorrow Aug/18/07 after the meeting of the Civil Protection Committee finishes at 9:30 AM. The Government of the State of Quintana Roo is the only official means of information.
Translation: cancunweathertoday.com
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