Caribbean Hit Again!

Jamaica is in the track of Ivan but has NOT been "hit" yet. This is a
SEVERE Cat. 5 Hurricane so watch out Jamaica and Cuba.

Grenada took a SEVERE beating with 90% of the homes devastated.

Bonaire suffered minor problems but was spared severe damage.

Prayers to those in Grenada.


Annie
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"G&G" <G&G.RemoveThis@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<pPudncnr3JNDAKLcRVn-gg.RemoveThis@comcast.com>...
 > Grenada was hit so hard. Would be interested in learning on how badly
 > Jamaica was hit.
 > G<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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How badly was Barbados hit? We were on a cruise ship waiting out the
storm during Frances Pictures of both the paths of Frances and Ivan
were posted. I met two ladies staring intently at the Ivan track---they
were from Barbados, and worried.
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Jan <yamba.DeleteThis@ihug.com.au> wrote:

 >"G&G" <G&G.DeleteThis@mindspring.com> wrote
  >> Grenada was hit so hard. Would be interested in learning on how badly
  >> Jamaica was hit.

 >I don't think it has been yet (7:50pm Sydney time, 5:50am NY time I
 >think).

Current track has it over Jamaica about 0100 UTC on Sat. A cat 5
will utterly devastate the shanty towns; this will be one of the
worst disasters in a very long time.

The track also currently takes it across major s.coast Cuban
cities and Havana. I wonder how St.Vincent and esp the Grenadines
have fared. Wow, awful.

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Ken Tough <ken DeleteThis @objectech.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3+2ezKBmzEQBFwau@objectech.co.uk>...
 > Jan <yamba DeleteThis @ihug.com.au> wrote:
 >
  > >"G&G" <G&G DeleteThis @mindspring.com> wrote
   > >> Grenada was hit so hard. Would be interested in learning on how badly
   > >> Jamaica was hit.
 >
  > >I don't think it has been yet (7:50pm Sydney time, 5:50am NY time I
  > >think).
 >
 > Current track has it over Jamaica about 0100 UTC on Sat. A cat 5
 > will utterly devastate the shanty towns; this will be one of the
 > worst disasters in a very long time.
 >
 > The track also currently takes it across major s.coast Cuban
 > cities and Havana. I wonder how St.Vincent and esp the Grenadines
 > have fared. Wow, awful.

isn't it? all I know of SVG is what I read on the net, and
relatively, it seems not nearly as bad off as Grenada is - including a
report that SVG PM Ralph Gonsalves said rescue work should go to
Grenada rather than his country b/c of the worse situation.

My last on-the-ground JA contact was 6 hours ago (1am Friday Sydney,
10am Thursday JA). My friend said he'd taken it for a joke,
literally, until a neighbour told him forecast much worse than Gilbert
and he was going to follow others and try and board up whatever he
could. At that time, he said, everyone around him was just trying to
prepare in whatever way they can - Negril. Said they'd been told it
was expected to hit in the afternoon/evening.

I can only wait with trepidation, like everyone else. and be thankful
I'm not there, sure I'd be more of a hindrance than help.

I'm sure he'll call me later if & when he can, he's got instructions
to call collect or get someone else to if he can't. I'll post news
when I hear it. If things go like Grenada, might not be soon. I'm
still reading that Grenada still cannot communicate with anyone in or
out of the island, + still no water or power.

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JeffGersten.RemoveThis@webtv.net (Jeff Gersten) wrote:

 >How badly was Barbados hit? We were on a cruise ship waiting out the
 >storm during Frances Pictures of both the paths of Frances and Ivan
 >were posted. I met two ladies staring intently at the Ivan track---they
 >were from Barbados, and worried.

Barbados was just brushed and is mostly OK. From Sept 8th

 >... the worst affected parishes today -
 >Christ Church, St. Philip, St. George and part of St. Michael.
 >
 >Schools and Colleges are closed today, as some of them were used as
 >shelters, while others are still without electricty. The Bdos Light and
 >Power crews have worked throughout the night to restore power, but there are
 >some small pockets still without electricity.
 >
 >Of course, the debate now is'what went wrong with our roofs' Too many roofs
 >on too new houses were either damaged or completely lifted.

From Sept 7th
 >About 200 + buildings were damaged mostly with roofs blown off. The cover over the Concorde flew away. Lots of trees are down and have taken power lines with them. Several of the smaller hotels have had partial damage to roofs. There is a lot of debris around in the roadways...Some of the buildings at the port were damaged... One 75 year old woman was found dead in a ditch.

Another report
 >Lots of branches and downed wires on the roads. Also drove past the careenage and the surf is indeed up and crashing over the barriers by Fort Willoughby (Coast Guard Headquarters)...was indeed a sight to behold. Then took a drive along Trevor's Way on my way to inspect my friends shop in the port - wow! I am so sorry I didn't have a video camera with me...the surf reminded me of the Soup Bowl in Bathsheba...The shops in the port have suffered extensive damage, with some merchandise being washed out to sea...will obviously be a while before they can open again.
 >
 >On my way back home, drove up the south coast - and believe it or not, there were people in the ocean at Carlisle Bay - SURFING!!! I really though I had seen it all, but that was the icing on the cake...and people were on the beach gawking at them. Continued up the south coast were I noticed a lot of debris combined with tree branches in the road. But, the National Conservation Commission I believe, was already on the job cleaning up. At KFC, the surf was actually in the parking lot...


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Rosalie B. <gmbeasley.RemoveThis@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<fbq0k05kd1ses442cbacag4hvffdt67454.RemoveThis@4ax.com>...
 > JeffGersten.RemoveThis@webtv.net (Jeff Gersten) wrote:
 >
 >
I have to start getting ready for work, so can't post all the links
I've found so do a search on Grenada or Caribbean news - sites I've
found with a bit of news are BBC, spice islander, spice isle, cedra,
and some other places which escape me right now. Jamaica Observer
hasn't updated for a while.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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gmbeasley RemoveThis @mindspring.com (Rosalie=A0B.) wote:

 >Barbados was just brushed and is mostly OK.
 >From Sept 8th

Thanks for that update. I was hoping that not seeing bad news about
Barbados was in fact good news.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Am Wed, 8 Sep 2004 20:03:42 -0400 schrieb G&G:

 > Grenada was hit so hard. Would be interested in learning on how badly
 > Jamaica was hit.

Not yet:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/09/hurricane.ivan.ap/index.html" target="_blank">http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/09/hurricane.ivan.ap/index.html</a>
It's expected to hit Jamaica Friday morning. From what I have just heard by
phone from Jam (13.00 UTC) is that many shops and places are closing down
and people preparing for the hurricane.

Let's hope it's not that bad.

Regards,

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yamba.RemoveThis@ihug.com.au (Jan) wrote:

 >I have to start getting ready for work, so can't post all the links
 >I've found so do a search on Grenada or Caribbean news - sites I've
 >found with a bit of news are BBC, spice islander, spice isle, cedra,
 >and some other places which escape me right now. Jamaica Observer
 >hasn't updated for a while.

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/07/hurricane.ivan.grenada.ap/" target="_blank">http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/07/hurricane.ivan.grenada.ap/</a>

 >Its howling winds and drenching rains also flooded parts of Venezuela's north coast, and a 32-year-old man died after battering waves engulfed a kiosk.
 >
 >In Tobago, officials reported a 32-year-old pregnant woman died when a 40-foot palm tree fell into her home, pinning her to her bed.
 >
 >A 75-year-old Canadian woman was found drowned in a canal swollen by flood waters in Barbados. Neighbors said the Toronto native, who had lived in Barbados for 30 years, braved the storm to search for her cat.
 >
 >A meteorologist at the Miami center, Hugh Cobb, said that if Ivan hits Jamaica, it could be more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which was only Category 3 when it devastated the island in 1988.
 >
 >Jamaica posted a hurricane warning Thursday morning. Government schools were closed and fishermen advised to pull their skiffs ashore and head for dry land. Haiti's southwest remained on hurricane watch and tropical storm warning. Dominican Republic was under hurricane watch and tropical storm warning for the Barahona peninsula with a tropical storm watch over the southwest coast. Cayman Islands posted a hurricane watch as did Cuba for central and eastern parts of the island.
 >
 >At 5 p.m. EDT, Ivan was centered about 350 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 35 miles and tropical storm-force winds another 175 miles. Ivan was moving west-northwest at 15 mph
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Rosalie B. <gmbeasley.TakeThisOut@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<8rk1k0lthbs36foun9c0euoc3t6l5jfau2.TakeThisOut@4ax.com>...

I had another phone call about 9pm JA time, things were ok in Negril
but Kingston was "having trouble". Keeping track on the net, BBC &
stormcarib stated by 2pm local time it should be in full force over
Jamaica.

I'd been asked to ring when I got home, so I did. About 3:15am JA
time. My friend was very quiet, most unusual for him. Said everyone
had done what they could and now just had to "wait to meet this
storm".

When I checked this storm carib site it gave indication the
storms/winds should reach Kingston (if I worked the times out right,
many conversions to do) local time about 7:15am, MB about 1:47pm. The
eye should reach about 13.5 hours after that. It's going to be a long
wait it seems. Something else I read said that the storms & winds in
this awful thing spread out more than 500 kilometres from the eye.
That is massive, as it seems to be on a satellite image I found
somewhere.

Jan
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yamba.DeleteThis@ihug.com.au (Jan) wrote:

>Rosalie B. <gmbeasley.DeleteThis@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:<8rk1k0lthbs36foun9c0euoc3t6l5jfau2.DeleteThis@4ax.com>...
>
>I had another phone call about 9pm JA time, things were ok in Negril
>but Kingston was "having trouble". Keeping track on the net, BBC &
>stormcarib stated by 2pm local time it should be in full force over
>Jamaica.
>
>I'd been asked to ring when I got home, so I did. About 3:15am JA
>time. My friend was very quiet, most unusual for him. Said everyone
>had done what they could and now just had to "wait to meet this
>storm".
>
>When I checked this storm carib site it gave indication the
>storms/winds should reach Kingston (if I worked the times out right,
>many conversions to do) local time about 7:15am, MB about 1:47pm. The
>eye should reach about 13.5 hours after that. It's going to be a long
>wait it seems. Something else I read said that the storms & winds in
>this awful thing spread out more than 500 kilometres from the eye.
>That is massive, as it seems to be on a satellite image I found
>somewhere.
>
I wish you would cut my name and attributions off if you are cutting
everything that I said out.


grandma Rosalie
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