Hurricane Wilma

As I write this, Hurricane Wilma is very slowly moving across the Yucatan peninsula.

Last night, after being frustrated that CNN was covering murders and the dress code of the NBA more than the hurricane, and that its hurricane coverage was of parties in Key West, I went online. Google articles provided a few scant details of what was happening in Mexico, and just about all of that was about the American tourists there.

Then I went to the Mexican google:

http://www.google.com.mx/

and there I found a lot more news. I had to work at my Spanish a bit, but still I could fill in from the context. Here is the first part of an article I found this morning via the Mexican google:

Wilma, el huracán más peligroso que México haya enfrentado, dio ayer una primera muestra de su fuerza, con vientos sostenidos de 220 kilómetros por hora y rachas hasta de 270, que provocaron olas de diez metros de altura e inundaciones hasta de ocho metros en Cancún y Playa del Carmen.

Can you follow that? I'll translate it pretty literally: "Wilma, the most dangerous hurricane that Mexico has encountered, gave yesterday a first showing of its force, with sustained winds of 220 kilometers an hour and gusts up to 270, which provoked waves of ten meters of height and inundations up to eight meters in Cancun and Playa del Carmen."

I'm sending love to the people of the Yucatan, and wishing everyone there the best. Last night as I fell asleep, snuggled in my cosy bed and so happy to have heard that my Mexican cat is fine, I held in my heart the animals going through this huracán peligroso.