No kidding. Someone actually printed this.
Posted on 07/07/2005 10:15:46 PM PDT by eartotheground
washingtonpost.com
By STEVENSON JACOBS The Associated Press Friday, July 8, 2005; 12:29 AM
...The Cayman Islands and Cuba were under hurricane warnings, including the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay holding some 520 terror suspects.
The hurricane center warned the eye could pass over central Cuba sometime Friday afternoon. In the communist-run island, where the military-style government has been praised by the United Nations for its extensive hurricane preparedness plans, more than 100,000 people had been evacuated in the island's southeast, civil defense officials said on state television.
There were no immediate plans to evacuate detainees or troops from the U.S. detention center's Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, located on Cuba's extreme southeast end about 150 yards from the ocean, Gen. Jay Hood said.
Troops put heavy steel shutters on sea-facing cell windows as heavy surf sent splashes of salt spray higher than the razor wire fence. Officials said Camp Delta was built to withstand winds up to 90 mph.
Associated Press Writers Leonardo Aldridge in Les Cayes, Haiti, and Ben Fox in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, contributed to this report.
© 2005 The Associated Press
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Senator Dick Durbin of Illnois, Assis. Senate Democrat Leader, called it torture when a GITMO prisoner had his AC turned off.
If Hurricane Dennis causes a power outage that leaves all of the GITMO prisoners without AC, will Durbin say that it's another holocast?
Gosh. Hurricanes sound nearly as dangerous as SUVs.
This hurricane has the potential to finally free us from Fidel Castro. Just how much more damage can Cuba take before that government falls? The kind of damage Dennis will do will require a lot of capital and resources to repair, and Cuba doesn't have it.
I wish you were right but I suspect the MSM will shame us into rebuilding it for the Cuban children, plus all the other leftists nations who are wanting to keep Castro going will probably send aid of some sort.
Heck, they say Gitmos is built to withstand 90 mph winds and I expect they will be higher than that. Maybe God is on the side of the left and will sweep away our wonderful and blameless al qaeda prisoners.
It never really got near Gitmo and has been moving away from Gitmo for a good 12 hours now; people need to get off this obsession and learn some geography.
I ain't gonna lern no dang geografy if'n I don't haf to an I don't haf to.
Last report I saw said it was approaching Cuba. I don't track it as I should I guess but I don't think it will hit Dallas, TX.
No kidding. Someone actually printed this.
Amen.
A lot of people don't realize just how large Cuba is---400 miles lengthwise. If you placed Cuba on a map of the USA, it would stretch from New York to Chicago. So just because it is an island, does not mean every place there will be affected by the hurricane equally. Far from it.
Hurricane are enormous. Cuba is about 3/4 of the size of Florida, but that storm has hurricane force winds extending 45 miles or more from its eye and can easilly cover the entire breath and length of Cuba. We are already feeling the impact of that storm in Florida. Hurricanes are not like earthquakes or tornados, they have vast area of effect, and when they hit you it may pound you for days.
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