one of many businesses flattened. we've seen homes with the roofs ripped off. we've seen tractor trailers tipped over, tossed around the parking lot. it seems that ground zero, at least where the hurricane ashore. 20 minutes later the mexico beach, i can show you the destruction. the destruction is everywhere you look here in mexico. pile of rubble in the road. this is very common. 3 1/2 miles of mexico beach and the debris is everywhere. houses ripped off their foundation. if you look at the two haases on the front lawn of this hotel structure, those houses aren't supposed to be there. they came from somewhere else. the storm surge came in. they floated all the way to where they are now which really complicates things. we know about the physical destruction. what we don't know is the human toll. 280 people elected to ride out