Hurricane Stan

A man uses a bucket to get water out of his home in one of the neighborhoods of the port city of Veracruz, Mexico, Oct. 4, 2005. Hurricane Stan slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast before quickly weakening to a tropical storm Oct. 4, forcing authorities to close one of the nation's busiest ports. Thousands of residents abandoned their homes and stayed in some of the 2,000 shelters set up all along the coastline.

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