But on the outskirts where service industry employees live in poverty - officials were bracing for heavy winds and driving downpours that could spark flash flooding.
It is amazing to me how these hurricanes keep hitting only the poor. Is it the large swimming pools that repel the storms or just sheer glitzyness that drive them away?
They've had to evacuate a thousand people! Thankfully they were Mexicans so the press can't blame it on President Bush who, as I understand it, actually speaks their language.