Hurricane Wilma has been downgraded in intensity, but continues to pound Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with high winds and plenty of rain. It's also crawling slowly toward the northeast, and could hit Southwest Florida by Monday. Residents walk on a street after Hurricane Wilma hit Playa del Carmen in Mexico's Caribbean state of Quintana Roo. 
DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News.  I'm Debbie Elliott.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: A powerful and slow-moving Hurricane Wilma is thrashing the resorts of      Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.  Wilma came ashore Friday as a Category 4      hurricane.  It's lost some strength but it's now almost stalled, just      crawling toward the Northeast.  The National Hurricane Center has      announced a hurricane watch for the entire southern Florida peninsula.      Wilma is expected to hit southwest Florida on Monday.  NPR's Lourdes      Garcia-Navarro has been traveling across the Yucatan.  She joins us from      Chichen Itza.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Hello there.</s>LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO reporting: Hello.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: What are the conditions like where you are?</s>GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, right now we're seeing howling winds.  We're about      90 miles to the west of Cancun where the eye of the storm passed earlier      today and we're certainly feeling the effects of Wilma, but, of course,      that's nothing compared to what they're seeing in Cancun, in Cozumel and      in Play del Carmen which has really received the brunt of Hurricane      Wilma.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Any word yet on how the famous Mayan ruins there weathered the      storm?</s>GARCIA-NAVARRO: Well, imagine these Mayan ruins have been here for      hundreds of years and no word yet whether the Mayan ruins have remained      perfectly intact or not.  So far we haven't even gotten word of if      there's any damage elsewhere where the storms really hit in Cozumel and      in Cancun because, you know, rescue workers are still huddled inside      waiting for this slow, slow-moving storm to pass.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: Is there a sense of how many tourists might have been trapped      there or if most were able to get out in advance of the storm?  This is      an area that has so many resorts.</s>GARCIA-NAVARRO: It is indeed an area that has so many resorts and there      were so many people there that did manage to get out.  Some of them are      here in Chichen Itza desperately trying to see how they can get back      home.  Others, though, did remain behind, at least about 20,000 people,      so we're being told; in Cancun and in the surrounding areas, there might      be more.  And they have been put in gymnasiums and ballroom hotels and in      other places which are deemed safe, but, of course, this storm is very      strong, although it is losing some strength now.  And they have been      holed up there for two nights in a row, and possibly if this storm does      not move any quicker, a third now.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro in Chichen Itza, Mexico, thank      you.</s>GARCIA-NAVARRO: Thank you.</s>DEBBIE ELLIOTT, host: And another tropical storm has formed in the Caribbean named      with the Greek letter alpha because we've run out of names.  This sets      the record for the most storms in an Atlantic hurricane season.