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Posted on 08/19/2007 3:52:51 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Extremely dangerous Hurricane Dean is moving west-northwest through the Caribbean Sea. The current NHC forecast track indicates Dean's powerful center core will pass just south of the southwestern peninsula of Haiti, and should skirt Jamaica's southern shoreline. The storm maintained strong Category 4 wind status through the night during an eyewall replacement cycle. However, the minimum pressure supports Category 5, and additional strengthening of winds is likely.
Tourists in Jamaica crowded airports Saturday to leave the island nation. Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller addressed the Jamaican people, asking that everyone put aside their political differences and work together in advance of the imminent storm preceding Jamaica's general election scheduled for August 27. PM Miller announced that the Jamaican power grid and water would likely be shut down early Sunday morning in advance of the storm, and strongly urged citizens to seek shelter.
The United States and Barbados have pledged hurricane relief supplies and support to Jamaica as needed. No word yet from the United Nations...
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You beat me (and got the link right too).
Hat tip to dufekin for the heads up.
Anyone who is still alive should remember Carla. Our families were in Houston but we were living in Virginia and it was the first time that I remember any event being broadcast over live TV 24/7. I was glued to the TV and never expected to see my family again.
The Cantarell field is in the Bahia Campeche just off the coast at Ciudad del Carmen. The wells are about even latitudinally with the northern part of Belize, around 19N.
The track of the eye is projected to move a bit to the north of there, but there will be some wind and convection from the storm because it’s so large.
The wells most likely have been evacuated of personnel, for safety’s sake, would be my guess.
That’s definitely something you don’t see every day.
On all three channels! LOL
Remind me of this the next time somebody crabs about folks living in coastal areas.
Yes! LOL!
I was in the 6th grade, but true to my vow as a Houston anti-hurricane charm, I had moved to Oklahoma, where I always rode out SE TX canes, lol.
A cousin in my birthplace of Corpus kept promising me a little Sunfish sailboat if I would come visit and it apparently - at my very scaredy-cat mother’s urging - “drowned” and was “lost at sea” in Carla.
(I don’t think it ever existed, at least not as intended for *me* but for my cousins.)
Great shots!
Oklahoma, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, northern Illinois. Guess I’m no longer in a mild drought ;-)
Were you in Alvin for Claudette?
Will try.
>the dial ups don’t know what right click means either
LOL! Reminds me of when they put that little “go” arrow up there by the address bar.
What, they didn’t know to press “ENTER?” LOL!
Your welcome.
Check out the time lapse video of an Oklahoma supercell:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLrJADfkd1I
“Jamaican officials closed the airports late Saturday, and at 6 p.m. ordered all businesses shuttered until Tuesday to prevent the looting that occurred during Hurricane Ivan in 2004.”
That was Dan Rather’s “big break,” wasn’t it? LOL!!
40+ mph winds? Don’t let ‘em kid you - it blows 25-30mph all day long, every day, on the Lake Hefner Golf Course in OKC with *frequent* gusts to 40 and above, lol!
Of course, if it hits just barely south, that actually is the worst in terms of wind.
However, Jamaica is a bit further north since it is on the east edge of the island that is not quite as far south, so unless it actually hits JUST barely south, Kingston will be spared the worst. IT sure looks to me like it is going more WNW than W and will not miss by much, probably even less than 30 miles to the S.
And there’s Rove, just sitting there on Meet the Press, big as you please, acting like he doesn’t have the Dean Machine remote control “carried and concealed” on his person!
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