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[...] "It's like, 'the sun's out, let's go,' and we're still here," said Lynn Wickum, of San Francisco as she drank a beer at one of the few open Cancun bars. "We feel the frustration building. You wouldn't want to make a scene, but at the same time, you're ready to go home."
Many of Cancun's own 500,000 residents have lost nearly everything in flooded or destroyed homes. [...]
- Haggard Tourists Battle to Leave Cancun
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Having an economy based on tourism just grosses me out. I'm really disturbed that the safety of tourists is so high on Vincente Fox's agenda after this hurricane, and yet I know that continuing the disgusting resort lifestyle is important to that area economically. It just makes me unhappy and there's no way around it.
srah - Tuesday, 25 October 2005 - 6:56 PM
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The tourists are lucky they have a home!