飓风“埃米莉”席卷牙买加之后，18日在墨西哥旅游胜地尤卡坦半岛登陆，风速高达每小时240公里。为避免人员伤亡，墨西哥被迫紧急疏散了10万多民众和游客，其中包括正在坎昆度假的3万游客，他们将被转移到大型会堂、体育馆、学校或防护措施更好的酒店中。外电报道如下：Hurricane Emily ripped roofs off luxury hotels along Mexico's Mayan Riviera, stranded¹ thousands of tourists and left hundreds of local residents homeless Monday, forcing many to remain in crowded, leaky shelters.

Residents of Yucatan Peninsula resorts, including Playa del Carmen and Tulum, began wading² through knee-deep floodwaters to assess damage under a light drizzle³, as the storm barreled west into the Gulf⁴ of Mexico.

There were no immediate⁵ reports of death or serious injuries on the peninsula, but Emily was expected to regain⁶ strength and threaten Mexican oil rigs before slamming into northeast Mexico or southern Texas as early as Tuesday night.

Strand表示“使搁浅，使陷于困境，弄断”，例如：a whale stranded by the high tide（被大海潮冲到岸上的鲸鱼）。

据悉，“埃米莉”所到之处一片狼籍，大树被连根拔起，屋顶被掀翻，广告牌东倒西歪。许多地方的水电系统完全中断，部分地区的通讯系统也陷于瘫痪。