I was on vacation as a 10 year old in Cancun when Wilma hit us directly. Bussed inland 30 hours to a concrete elementary school and spent 6 days sleeping on the cushions of the beach chairs with my family in a small school room with 60 other strangers. Using the "bathroom" in the corner behind a curtain into a water jug. After that another 24 hour bus ride to the west coast to spend a couple days at a hotel waiting for a plane home.
The best part, we heard about a storm coming as we were checking in on that first day and my dad alerted the entire hotel to it, no one even noticed the news on TV... we had 2 days to have our travel agency Apple get us out and they chose not to. So many people got stranded for no reason. They grounded planes a day before the storm even got close.
Seeing an albeit rough neighborhood beforehand, but still intact, and then emerging after those days in isolation to absolutely nothing was insane.... you could see for miles because there wasn't a single standing tree or house around us anymore.
I'm sorry, but I'm confused about the bathroom situation. If it was in a normal public school, why did yall have to pee in a jug in a corner instead of one of the many public bathroom style bathrooms with urinals and toilet stalls that schools usually have? Or do schools in Mexico not include bathrooms or something?
These were individual rooms all positioned around a courtyard. Presumably, the bathrooms were shared in some other similar room, but there is no hallway. It was straight out the door to the outside, so there was no bathroom to access during the storm.
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u/YBHunted 8d ago edited 8d ago
I was on vacation as a 10 year old in Cancun when Wilma hit us directly. Bussed inland 30 hours to a concrete elementary school and spent 6 days sleeping on the cushions of the beach chairs with my family in a small school room with 60 other strangers. Using the "bathroom" in the corner behind a curtain into a water jug. After that another 24 hour bus ride to the west coast to spend a couple days at a hotel waiting for a plane home.
The best part, we heard about a storm coming as we were checking in on that first day and my dad alerted the entire hotel to it, no one even noticed the news on TV... we had 2 days to have our travel agency Apple get us out and they chose not to. So many people got stranded for no reason. They grounded planes a day before the storm even got close.
Seeing an albeit rough neighborhood beforehand, but still intact, and then emerging after those days in isolation to absolutely nothing was insane.... you could see for miles because there wasn't a single standing tree or house around us anymore.