Gaffney describes Cancun ordeal

Beacon Journal sports writer TomGaffney and his wife, Linda, are back home in Stow and he writes about their ordeal in a story on Page A1of the Beacon Journal on Saturday, October 29, 2005.

“Stow looked more like paradise than merely home Thursday,” Gaffney writes. “My wife, Linda, and I survived seven days with Hurricane Wilma and its aftermath in Mexico, but we'll never forget the hours we thought we wouldn't.

“We made it out, just as tens of thousands of other Cancun tourists have. But we left behind a scene of destruction. Some hotels and restaurants are gone -- as are the jobs that went with them for a Mexican people whom my wife and I had learned to love in five previous trips to the Yucatan peninsula.”

Their ordeal is an interesting story. As Gaffney concludes:

“Linda and I are home safely, with an unforgettable experience behind us. But it is impossible not to think of the untold thousands of Mexicans left with nothing.”

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