Stores like Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart were filled with people buying stuff.  The Mexican economy must be going great.

All is normal in town.

There’s not much for us to buy since we are leaving Saturday and…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-22T23:04:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/relief-and-celebration/ Since people couldn’t go anywhere last night, all the bars at the resort were full. We had a full house. We didn’t finish karaoke until 12 o’clock. We closed the place down.

We had people from New York, New Jersey and Wisconsin there last night. We couldn’t even sing…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-22T12:49:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/it-looks-beautiful-but-dangerous/ All is pretty calm, except the wind is still strong. The pools are open, and so are the restaurants and stores.

The beach is still closed. We are having high waves - up to 8 feet. The ocean looks beautiful in the sun but dangerous.

…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-21T18:04:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/the-ocean-is-really-up-high/ I went to take pictures of the sun coming, and a burst of sunshine is coming through. It’s calming down, and the sky is breaking. The ocean is really up high. It came already up to the grass of the wall surrounding the resort.

They’re patrolling. I was just…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-21T12:59:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/nobody-seemed-to-be-panicking/ We turned on the TV this morning and are watching to see what’s going on in the world.

It got a little rough last night, and the winds were howling. The ocean is a little high but not that bad. There’s no damage we can see. We slept well…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-21T12:57:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/waiting-for-the-storm/ We’re getting a lot of rain and some strong winds, they decided it was going to hit far enough south to stay here.

They put a 9 o’clock curfew in place.

The ocean is pretty rough out there.

The staff and security are chasing people…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-21T02:02:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/boarded-up/ We’re watching the weather, watching the trees and how they move.  Right now they’re predicting it will go through the middle of the (Yucatan) Peninsula, through Tulum and Chetumal.

They took all the furniture from our balcony so it doesn’t come flying through the windows and told us to…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-20T22:05:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/beaches-closed/ They have closed the beaches, although it is still beautiful and sunny.

The hotel is moving everyone staying on the sixth floor and up to lower floors. We are on the second floor.

People are very optimistic the eye of the storm will pass south, therefore requiring…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-20T17:10:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/food-water-prepared/ The staff reassured us that they already had evacuations plans in place. We would evacuate if the storm was greater than a Category 3 and would have a direct impact. They were negotiating with the government about the people in the resort if the storm was no greater than a Category…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-20T15:04:00-05:00 http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/hurricane/comments/first-sign-empty-terminal/ We left St. Louis, Mo., on Saturday morning at 7.  Good flight, the plane had 24 empty seats which the flight attendants attributed to people canceling at the last minute.  There was no information concerning this storm or cancellation of flights.

Arrived in Cancun around 10 a.m., terminal was…]]> Bracing For Dean: From Cancun, Mexico 2007-08-20T14:58:00-05:00