Posted on 08/17/2007 12:33:48 PM PDT by rocksblues
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) - A strengthening Hurricane Dean tore through the eastern Caribbean islands of St. Lucia and Martinique on Friday, ripping the roofs from a hospital and homes, knocking out power, and flooding roads with rain and seawater. A 62-year-old man drowned, in the storm's first death.
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season, which grew into a Category 3 on Friday with 125 mph winds, is expected to strengthen over the warm waters of the Caribbean, hit Jamaica on Sunday and climb to Category 4 status before clipping Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. It was projected to steer into the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday, threatening the U.S.-Mexico border area.
Residents on the French island of Martinique reported landslides and said scores of people were left homeless.
"The sea swelled, crossed the road and invaded homes," said a woman in southern Martinique who identified herself as Lucie in a call to local radio.
On St. Lucia, a former British colony just south of Martinique, Dean blew the corrugated metal roof off the pediatric ward at Victoria Hospital in Castries, the capital, but patients already were evacuated and no injuries were reported, said acting hospital director Hubert Emmanuel.
Buildings across this eastern Caribbean island lost their roofs, often made of corrugated metal. With utility poles down, the power company turned off electricity on the island to prevent electrocutions.
"We don't have a roof...everything is exposed. We tried to save what we could," said Josephine Marcelus in Morne Rouge, a town in northern Martinique. "We sealed ourselves in one room, praying that the hurricane stops blowing over Martinique."
St. Lucia state radio reported the capital was flooded and cluttered with wind-blown debris. Boulders from a sea wall were shoved onto roads by the force of storm surges. A boat sat in the road, lifted from the sea by the storm.
A 62-year-old man was swept away in a rain-swollen river while attempting to retrieve a cow, in the storm's first death, police said.
ARRRRGGGGHHHH!
Good. There's nothing there... like a fence or something.
Bush’s fault!
Its heading for Louisiana. Kentucky has volunteered to take in 5000 “evacuees”
Udder stupidity.......
Gotta watch those cows in a storm, they'll get you every time:
Cheney is turning the knob on this one up to 11 !
Nah, Cheney is letting Rove have one last spin on the Halliburton Hurr-A-Matic. Dean should be a doozy as a result.
And the cow?
"Hurry and blow the levees Rove. I gotta paddle this carbon neutral vessel downtown to give my "I Told You So" speech!"
“We’re going to the Lesser Antilles, to Hispanolia, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Texas....YEEE HAWWWWWWWW”
One less contributor to Global Warming.
Hopefully Hurricane Dean fizzles as completely as candidate Dean did.
Were going to the Lesser Antilles, to Hispanolia, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Texas....YEEE HAWWWWWWWW
Good One!
Need your Hurricane Dean graphic in this thread!
We already have a “Hurricane Dean” thread.
I cannot count the times I have seen this type of post. I am not online 24/7.
I see articles posted that I would never of seen because the title has been changed by the next MSM person that decides to report on the subject.
I do a diligent search of the title of the article I am going to post. If the article has been posted before under a different title I would never know.
Your response?
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