The Jamaica radio station I was listening to has been on generator power since this afternoon, and is now doing a three hour shut-down to do repairs (and probably conserve fuel). They have a national election scheduled on the 27th, and there’s been a state of emergency declared. Most of the talk wasn’t about the storm, but about the opposition claiming the whole thing’s a plot to avoid the election. Pretty typical of our situation where we’ve got people playing politics with national disasters within hours. They had some armed gangs roaming around shooting at each other in CAT4 winds, but in general they seemed less distressed than N.O. did in the immediate aftermath. So, I have a feeling there’ll be a lot of property damage, but not a huge number of fatalities. One report of a roof ripped off one the cell blocks in the main prison facility was included.
Heh, they’re doing better overall than I thought they might.
FWIW, all the inmates in the Rio Grande Valley jails and prisons have already been evac’ed to other prison facilities around TX, according to our local news.
*this ain’t NOLA, folks*
Wow, do they blame Karl Rove too? Or maybe they have a Rove of their own.
(rolling eyes)