We used to think of Wilma Flintstone so innocently
Here's what we USED to say about Wilma Flintstone, before Hurricane Wilma devastated Mexico and Cuba on its way to Florida.
June 2002:
Wilma Flintstone's maiden name was Wilma Slaghoopal, and Betty Rubble's Maiden name was Betty Jean Mcbricker.
August 2002 (and repeated endlessly thereafter):
The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
April 2004:
And now, I shall sing for you in writing--Sometimes I feel like I need a vacation,/ sometimes I feel like I wanna go/ to the city of cavemen, the city of Bedrock,/ I'd be a Flintstone,/ now I'll tell you why.... Not entirely true, I don't want to be in Bedrock (even though Wilma is just a little bit hot, sometimes), but I think I really do need a vacation. Or maybe just get a girlfriend, with all the perks. One of those perks, in particular, I believe. I think you know what I mean lol. Yeah, you know you're desperate when Wilma Flintstone starts looking good.
But our innocent lusts (though I prefer Betty Rubble, myself) had changed by October 15, 2005:
Wilma Flintstone was hardly a monster or a nasty, contentious woman of any sort when she had to put up with Fred's whims back in the prehistoric day. Unfortunately for residents of the Western Carribbean and eventually the Eastern USA, the future Wilma will be a nasty storm....
Now that it's become a TD, let's take a look at what might occur with the future Wilma....
The National Hurricane Center has her moving west and then north around the island of Jamaica and towards the western tip of Cuba....
There is one potential scenario I want to highlight. Splitting the Yucutan and Cuba is not out of the question with this system, especially if it begins to get tugged north because of an advancing late-week trough and low pressure system that will be moving into the Central Plains....
Unfortunately for the Mexicans, this early prediction was wrong:
Six people were listed as killed and two as missing after Hurricane Wilma erased beaches and flooded luxury hotels up to the third floor in Mexico's famous Yucatan resorts....
The famous beach resorts of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula were battered with heavy winds and rains for nearly two days Friday and Saturday.
The storm wiped out electricity and telephone lines, and destroyed more than 1,000 homes in Playa del Carmen, popular with European and North American tourists, officials said Saturday.
"Playa is destroyed. We have water everywhere, all of the power lines are down, we are flooded all over," said Moises Ramirez, the town's civil defense chief.
In Cancun, which sat under the hurricane's center for hours on end, floodwaters rose up to eight meters (26 feet), reaching the third story of some hotels....
Two people died of burns, and five others were injured, after a gas cylinder plunged from a rooftop in Playa del Carmen and exploded during the storm Friday, according to the Quintana Roo state governor's office.
A man was killed by a falling tree branch, and earlier a 33-year-old woman was electrocuted and killed in Cancun as she readied for the storm, authorities said.
Two dead bodies were discovered on Cozumel Island....
Cozumel, famous among skin and scuba divers, lay devastated following the storm, with streets under one meter (three feet) of water, according to the interior ministry.
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