Mexico's Caribbean beach resorts escaped almost unscathed on Monday from Hurricane Emily, which blew down trees and cut power but nothing more serious. Cozumel island, a popular diving destination, took the hardest hit. The storm uprooted trees and smashed windows of homes and businesses. "The danger has passed ... the worst is over," said Felix Gonzalez, the governor of Quintana Roo state, home to Mexico's Caribbean resorts.
Mexico shut down the majority of the offshore wells in its most productive oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico, and two major ports that export crude remained closed early on Monday.
Emily killed four people in Jamaica before it hit Mexico, where it was indirectly responsible for three deaths over the weekend.
The government warned residents of the state of Yucatan to be alert. "We have been asking them not to go out into the street because this storm is still very dangerous," said Carmen Segura Rangel, the head of Mexico's civil protection agency.