My plan had been for today to travel further east to Villahermosa, the last big stop before the Yucatan, but Ernesto has given me pause.
After three days here of temps in the 90s and high humidity, rain finally came late last night here at the very western edge of the storm.
I've just googled the weather outlook and read the latest stories about Ernesto, and see that it touched land near a tourist area, causing the evacuation of some 1300 people staying at a resort.
The land fall caused the storm to lose power, but it's headed back to sea and is expected to hit land again further inland closer to Veracruz state later tonight.
Last night there were officials in the streets here distributing flyers with emergency service numbers and advice for how to wait out the storm.
Of course it would seem rather foolish to travel any further east at this stage, so I think it's better to sit things out for another day and see how things develop.
This is reminiscent of my experience in southern Guatemala during Tropical Storm Agathe in 2010.
At that time I was held up for a few days waiting for the rain to stop. When it was over a five hundred year old bridge in a nearby village was badly damaged by the torrent of water breaking the banks of the local river.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ernesto-crosses-yucatan-picks-strength-031706304.html
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