The cruise industry dodged a big bullet, named Dean, when the hurricane went a little south of its original track. It had been on a course that would have taken it directly over Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Cozumel/Cancun, which could have rendered the three top Western Caribbean cruise ports unusable for 6-8 months - or longer.

Luckily, as strong as Dean was, there have been very few reports of loss of life, and that just shows how seriously people - in all countries - are taking hurricanes. Our thoughts do go out to those who did lose loved ones to Dean,  those who were injured, and those left homeless.