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 DISPATCHES | Issue: "Effective Compassion" September 01, 2007

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 Hurricane Dean slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula on Aug. 21 as the third most intense Atlantic hurricane to make landfall in recorded history. The massive Category 5 hurricane left at least 15,000 people homeless and destroyed an estimated 60,000 acres of crops on the eastern end of the peninsula. Authorities initially reported no casualties, but warned they weren't yet sure how rural jungle communities fared.

Authorities in Jamaica said Dean killed at least 20 people when it battered the Caribbean region east of the Yucatan as a Category 4 hurricane one day earlier. The hurricane weakened as it moved west, sparing a storm-weary Texas from a direct hit.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry had prepared for the worst: State officials set up shelters, mobilized the National Guard, shipped some 80,000 barrels of gasoline to gas stations in the Rio Grande Valley, and asked President Bush for a preemptive disaster declaration.

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