Dislikeda little off topic although thought yall might want to know this
Dean became the third most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in recorded history when it plowed into the Yucatan Peninsula on Tuesday as a ferocious Category 5 storm. It toppled trees, power lines and houses _ but spared glitzy resorts on the Mayan Riviera.
Greatly weakened from that overland journey, Dean moved across the Bay of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico, home to more than 100 oil platforms, three major oil exporting ports and the Cantarell oil field, Mexico's most productive.
The entire field's operations were shut down just ahead of the storm, reducing daily production by 2.7 million barrels of oil and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Seventy percent of the oil city of Ciudad del Carmen was flooded, Campeche state Gov. Jorge Carlos Hurtado told Mexico's Televisa network.Ignored
I posted this storm surge measurement from a buoy near the oil production area. I haven't heard anything yet regarding the condition of the production wells/pumps/pipelines/etc., but I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they have been damaged badly.
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