The Environmental News Network
Thursday, October 5, 2000
By Rodrigo Martinez
Reuters
A light aircraft lies upside down and split in half at San Pedro's airport, the entrails of roofless houses gape
up at the sky, and the streets of this Belize tourist resort are littered with the remains of homes, snapped telephone
poles and torn electricity cables.
A third of the 9,000 residents of San Pedro on Ambergris Caye were homeless Wednesday after the coral-fringed Caribbean
island in the former British colony bore the brunt of a fierce onslaught from Hurricane Keith.
"This has been the worst storm of my life," said Miesge Province, originally from Colorado Springs in
the United States but who has been in San Pedro for 15 years, where she and her husband own a restaurant.
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