Getting Cancún ready for future battles
I think it was Theodore Roosevelt who said "Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
Five months on from Wilma, I’ve detected signs that some people are beginning to wonder what may be in store this year. The hurricane season starts in June, which somehow suddenly now seems just around the corner.
Right on cue, Sean Mattson poses some questions about hurricane preparedness in Cancún in an article for the San Antonio Express. He remarks on how insurers have announced higher premiums and are now more demanding of construction quality. You may recall that I wrote about it in January.
As they say in the Caribbean…
"June too soon, July stand by, August come it must, September remember, October all over"
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April 12th, 2006 at 12:51 am
[...] On March 28th, I flagged Sean Mattson’s well-timed questioning of building standards in hurricane-prone cities, like Cancún. [...]