[gburlison]

I lived on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in 1998 when Hurricane Georges made landfall in late September 1998. This was a weak category 2 storm with winds of 90 knots. Georges slowed down and pounded the Gulf Coast of Mississippi for about 12 hours. I lost five oak trees, three had trunks larger than 2ft in diameter and the other two were about 18inches in diameter. Luckily they all fell away from my house and it only suffered minor damage. I expect that Cancun took beating and that pictures of the area will rival Katrina pictures.