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Thankfully the second hit on land in Mexico from Hurricane Dean wasn't at the level it hit on Tuesday, although it's still a formidable force.

Tuesday the Hurricane hit the Yucatan as a Category 5 Hurricane with winds reaching 165 mph, the third highest intensity known to hit landfall.

On Wednesday, the storm hit landfall with 100 mph winds, just after the last civil defense workers loaded people fleeing the storm on trucks to move to safety inland from Tecolutla, which is a tourism and fishing town. The hurricane hit a stretch of 60 miles along the coast of Veracruz state.

Not too long after hitting landfall in the later morning, winds dropped to 85 mph, and was eventually downgraded to a tropical storm in the afternoon, with winds eventually decreasing to 70 mph.

The fishing and tourism industry is obviously impacted by the storm, although it's not known at this time how deeply it will cut.

As far as the Mexican oil industry, Dean traveled across the southern part of the Gulf of Mexico, where there are about 100 oil platforms stationed, three key Mexican oil-exporting ports and Mexico's best oil field: the Cantarell. All offshore production was stopped before the storm hit.

As a result, the industry will lose about 2.7 million barrels of oil a day and 2.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

Another industry that will be strongly affected will be corn and sugar cane producers in Veracruz, one of Mexico's major agricultural areas. Coffee producers located at higher elevations are also at major risk from heavy rains

The death toll from Dean rose to 27 throughout the Caribbean, officials from Haiti saying another 7 people killed from the storm have been reported. Mexico so far has suffered no known casualties from Dean.