Bump, thanks for that info.
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AP Excerpts:
” ... Dean, which had already killed eight people on its destructive march across the Caribbean, triggered evacuation calls from the Cayman Islands to Texas and forced the space shuttle to cut short its mission.
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A state of emergency was declared in the resort town of South Padre Island. About 3,300 jail and prison inmates in the area were to be bused to correctional facilities elsewhere by Sunday night.
In Washington, R. David Paulison, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said up to 100,000 people might have to be evacuated from the state’s southeastern coast and its immigrant shantytowns near the Mexican border. The storm is on course for northern Mexico but could shift and hit the region around Brownsville, Texas, Paulison said.
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Governments in Central America declared themselves on alert for the secondary effects of Dean. In Nicaragua, a 4- year-old girl died when a boat she was on sank Saturday night amid high winds and waves.
The hurricane created massive waves and surges high as 20 feet as it passed the Dominican Republic on Saturday, flooding roads and drowning a boy. At least two people were killed and about 150 homes were destroyed in Haiti. ...”
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>>>And it looks like Dean is going to Monkeyville after skirting the Caymans!
YW - see the excerpts in my above post.