2007/08/23
Hurricane Dean on Wednesday hit Mexico for a second time in two days, blasting the eastern state of Veracruz before weakening into a tropical storm that still threatened to trigger dangerous floods and mudslides.
Dean was little more than a shadow of the monster storm that roared onto Mexico's Caribbean coast on Tuesday, but authorities worried that vast areas along its inland track remained at risk from swelling rivers and possible landslides.
One man died in the state of Veracruz when he was electrocuted by a cable that touched the roof he was trying to repair while the storm raged.
That was the first reported fatality from Dean's rampage in Mexico as forecasters downgraded the weather system from a hurricane to a tropical storm.
Before it hit Mexico, hurricane Dean was blamed for four deaths in Jamaica, four in Haiti, two in the Dominican Republic, and two in Martinique.
While thousands of Mexicans remained in emergency shelters as rivers swelled steadily, Petroleos De Mexico (Pemex) said technicians were set to return to offshore oil platforms where production should be back to normal levels next week.
The state oil company had earlier evacuated all 18,000 personnel from its installations in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a production drop of 2.65 million barrels a day.
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Dean was little more than a shadow of the monster storm that roared onto Mexico's Caribbean coast on Tuesday, but authorities worried that vast areas along its inland track remained at risk from swelling rivers and possible landslides.
One man died in the state of Veracruz when he was electrocuted by a cable that touched the roof he was trying to repair while the storm raged.
That was the first reported fatality from Dean's rampage in Mexico as forecasters downgraded the weather system from a hurricane to a tropical storm.
Before it hit Mexico, hurricane Dean was blamed for four deaths in Jamaica, four in Haiti, two in the Dominican Republic, and two in Martinique.
While thousands of Mexicans remained in emergency shelters as rivers swelled steadily, Petroleos De Mexico (Pemex) said technicians were set to return to offshore oil platforms where production should be back to normal levels next week.
The state oil company had earlier evacuated all 18,000 personnel from its installations in the Gulf of Mexico, causing a production drop of 2.65 million barrels a day.
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=242863
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