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Hurricane Dean Strengthens to Category 3
Breitbart.com ^ | Aug 17 02:01 PM US/Eastern | GUY ELLIS

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.


TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: denier; globalwarming; hurricane; hurricanedean; tsdean; weather
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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!

1 posted on 08/17/2007 12:33:52 PM PDT by rocksblues
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To: rocksblues
It was projected to steer into the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday, threatening the U.S.-Mexico border area.

Good. There's nothing there... like a fence or something.

2 posted on 08/17/2007 12:35:50 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: rocksblues

Bush’s fault!


3 posted on 08/17/2007 12:36:21 PM PDT by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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Its heading for Louisiana. Kentucky has volunteered to take in 5000 “evacuees”


4 posted on 08/17/2007 12:37:21 PM PDT by harwood (Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
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To: rocksblues

Udder stupidity.......


5 posted on 08/17/2007 12:39:24 PM PDT by Red Badger (All I know about Minnesota, I learned from Garrison Keilor..................)
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To: rocksblues
A 62-year-old man was swept away in a rain-swollen river while attempting to retrieve a cow

Gotta watch those cows in a storm, they'll get you every time:


6 posted on 08/17/2007 12:46:11 PM PDT by dirtboy (Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
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To: rocksblues

Cheney is turning the knob on this one up to 11 !


7 posted on 08/17/2007 12:47:32 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Get a colonoscopy - Ron Paulyps could be cancerous!)
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To: Fledermaus

Nah, Cheney is letting Rove have one last spin on the Halliburton Hurr-A-Matic. Dean should be a doozy as a result.


8 posted on 08/17/2007 12:51:38 PM PDT by dirtboy (Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
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To: rocksblues

Hurricane Dean - Yeeeahhh!
9 posted on 08/17/2007 12:53:44 PM PDT by Mannaggia l'America
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A 62-year-old man was swept away in a rain-swollen river while attempting to retrieve a cow

And the cow?

10 posted on 08/17/2007 12:55:34 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: rocksblues
It was projected to steer into the Gulf of Mexico by Wednesday, threatening the U.S.-Mexico border area.

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"Hurry and blow the levees Rove. I gotta paddle this carbon neutral vessel downtown to give my "I Told You So" speech!"

11 posted on 08/17/2007 12:56:03 PM PDT by bikerMD (Beware, the light at the end of the tunnel may be a muzzle flash.)
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To: Mannaggia l'America

“We’re going to the Lesser Antilles, to Hispanolia, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Texas....YEEE HAWWWWWWWW”


12 posted on 08/17/2007 12:56:06 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Get a colonoscopy - Ron Paulyps could be cancerous!)
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To: theDentist

One less contributor to Global Warming.


13 posted on 08/17/2007 1:02:09 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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To: Fledermaus

Hopefully Hurricane Dean fizzles as completely as candidate Dean did.


14 posted on 08/17/2007 1:02:49 PM PDT by dirtboy (Impeach Chertoff and Gonzales. We can't wait until 2009 for them to be gone.)
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With Al’s current avoirdupois, he’d better hope any new canoeing is in shallow water...
15 posted on 08/17/2007 1:07:40 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (The Democrat Party: radical Islam's last hope)
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To: Fledermaus

“We’re going to the Lesser Antilles, to Hispanolia, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, Texas....YEEE HAWWWWWWWW”

Good One!


16 posted on 08/17/2007 1:08:39 PM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: cripplecreek

Need your Hurricane Dean graphic in this thread!


17 posted on 08/17/2007 1:16:48 PM PDT by Domandred (Eagles soar, but unfortunately weasels never get sucked into jet engines)
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To: rocksblues

We already have a “Hurricane Dean” thread.


18 posted on 08/17/2007 1:20:02 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: rocksblues
Hurricane Dean live thread (dunno why it's in chat at the moment though).
19 posted on 08/17/2007 1:31:18 PM PDT by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
Another thread is against the rules?

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?

20 posted on 08/17/2007 1:33:15 PM PDT by rocksblues (Just enforce the law!)
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