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Dean Lashes Mexican Coast

Category 5 storm packs severe winds, but leaves no immediate deaths, damage

By Wesley Oliver, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 21, 2007 11:03 AM CDT

(Newser) – Tearing into history as the most intense Atlantic storm to make landfall in two decades, Hurricane Dean today pounded the Yucatan peninsula, battering Mayan ruins and swinging toward oil rigs, the AP reports. Pummeling homes and trees in sparsely populated, mostly evacuated areas, the fierce... Read full story »

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Dean Lashes Mexican Coast

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