South Mexico is getting a lot to suffer these days. At least 5 people lost their lives and thousands were relocated in southeastern Mexico after Tropical Storm Gamma trussed the Yucatan Peninsula’s resort-studded coast with near-hurricane force winds and drenched Tabasco and Chiapas states, authorities told on Sunday. Mexico’s civil defense agency said in a statement that four of the deaths, including two children, were in Chiapas, where a landslide on a mountainous slope engrossed their home. The other death was in Tabasco state, where a person was hauled away by the water.

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Gamma, along with cold fronts, connected over the weekend to cause extreme rains in parts of the Yucatan Peninsula and Chiapas, stirring more than half a million people. The hardest-hit state was Tabasco, where over 3,400 were relocated to tents. The storm came ashore Saturday near Tulum with maximum sustained winds of nearly 70 mph (110 kph) — 4 mph (9 kph short of hurricane force), as per the US National Hurricane Center in Miami.

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Mexican authorities proceeded to inform people in the Yucatan on Sunday afternoon as Gamma remained stalled offshore. The hurricane center said Gamma was about 130 miles (205 kms) northeast of Progreso, Mexico, and had maximum sustained winds of 60 mph (95 kph). The state’s tourism department reported Friday on Twitter that more than 41,000 tourists were present in Quintana Roo, with hotels in Cancun and Cozumel already at more than 30% occupancy. The area only recently reopened to tourism after a pandemic shutdown.

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