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MERIDA, Mexico (AP) - I'm on vacation in Mexico again with my wife. It's the first time we've been back since October 2005. And it's no accident that this time, we're here in late spring instead of autumn, which is traditionally one of the worst times for hurricanes. When Hurricane Wilma hit a year and a half ago, we were in Playa del Carmen, south of Cancun. We got out safely, but only after spending 60 hours in a hurricane shelter, 24 hours on a bus, and hundreds and hundreds of dollars in extra expenses for which we were never reimbursed.
Here are six things I learned the hard way about vacationing in a hurricane-prone region.
1. Next time, I would buy travel insurance to cover emergency expenses like extra days in hotels and the $800 our airline wanted to charge when we tried to leave ahead of the storm. The airline insisted that Wilma, a category 4-5 storm, wasn't going to disrupt our flight, even though it was slated to hit five hours before our original scheduled departure.
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