and here comes the next one.

[piranha]

hurricane wilma is battering cozumel, and cancun (pictures).

i wonder whether i'd be writing journal entries while a hurricane is busy trying to tear my home down. probably.

cuba evacuated 370,000 people from its western coast. how come cuba is so good at evacuating? they seem to have it down pat. lessons to be learned?

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[bpt.livejournal.com]

regarding Cuba, see Weathering the Storm: Lessons in Risk Reduction from Cuba (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.oxfamamerica.org/newsandpublications/publications/research_reports/pdfs/cuba_hur_eng.pdf&ei=UOxZQ6C4Nb_macOnkMQC&sig2=GSULvI2ifhh3iO9RE0GBDQ) from Oxfam