Mexico tourists wait in shelters ahead of storm

Tourists in the Mexican resort of Cancun sheltered on Tuesday night in a local university ahead of the arrival of Delta, a category 4 storm that was expected to make landfall at the Yucatan Peninsula during the early hours of Wednesday.

The worst of the immediate impact was expected along the resort-studded northeastern tip of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where hurricane conditions were expected Tuesday night and landfall early Wednesday.

From Tulum to Cancun, tourism-dependent communities still soaked by the remnants of Tropical Storm Gamma could bear the brunt of the storm.

In Cancun, long lines snaked from supermarkets, lumber yards and gas stations as people scrambled for provisions under mostly sunny skies.

Officials warned that residents should have several days of water and food on hand.

Boat owners lined up at public ramps to pull their craft out of the water.

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