Reuters reports:
COZUMEL, Mexico, Oct 24 (Reuters) - When vicious hurricane winds and massive waves pounded Mexico's Caribbean island of Cozumel, 17 people ran from one improvised bunker to another as the Hotel Barracuda collapsed in bits around them.
They first tried to ride out Hurricane Wilma in their rooms but then took refuge in a first floor corridor as doors flew off, windows exploded and the churning ocean tore back and forth through the shattered lobby below.
The 12 American scuba divers, two Dutch tourists and three Mexican hotel employees tried to make extra walls with packs of building tiles but gave up when water poured in from above.
So they hid out in another room and then crammed inside toilets before Mexican navy officers finally broke in and pulled them out at the height of the storm.
They were lucky, because now nothing at all is left of Hotel Barracuda.
"You could feel the waves banging at the wall, the water was coming over the three-storey hotel," said Hans Van Erp, a 40-year-old Dutch bookseller. "Every time we thought 'It can't get any worse', it did."
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Reuters suggests that, yes, it is gone.
