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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Hurricane Dean's rampage over Mexico's Caribbean coast last week unearthed three rusted 18th century cannons that had lain buried under a sandy beach for decades. Hurricane Dean is pictured over Mexico in this satellite image taken on August 22, 2007. Hurricane Dean's rampage over Mexico's Caribbean coast last week unearthed three rusted 18th century cannons that had lain buried under a sandy beach for decades. (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Handout/Reuters) The cannons, around 1.80 meter (5.9 feet) long, were spotted poking through the sand on a beach near the arty resort of Tulum after Dean hit...

(CBS) LOS ANGELES Thunderstorms left over from Hurricane Dean were dumping rain on northern San Diego County Sunday morning, and at least two bands of storms are poised to hit the Los Angeles basin later Sunday. Nearly two inches of rain fell in Escondido in a series of cloudbursts that started at 6:45 a.m. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood warning for San Diego County at about 7 a.m., and a forecaster said similar storms could develop in Orange and Los Angeles counties later Sunday. The storms are tropical moisture fed up from the tropics by the low...

CBS) LOS ANGELES Residents in eastern areas of Los Angeles and Orange counties are experiencing the remnants of Hurricane Dean in the form of muggy air and thunderheads. A blast of tropical moisture from the Gulf of Mexico has blown all the way to California. When the air meets updrafts from the mountains, it creates thunderheads, according to a meteorologist at the National Weather Service. A thunderstorm watch has been put in effect for Southern California mountains and deserts as far north as Big Lear Lake. It will continue until 8 p.m. Saturday and is likely to be repeated Sunday,...

News Release Canada Sends New C-17 to Jamaica with Supplies for the Victims of Hurricane Dean 2007-16 - August 23, 2007 TRENTON — Minister of International Cooperation Beverley Oda and Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Peter Gordon MacKay were in Trenton today to oversee loading of relief items in Canada’s new C-17 for hurricane-affected communities in Jamaica. "By using our new C-17, Canada’s New Government is responding today to the humanitarian emergency in Jamaica with a large shipment of emergency aid supplies," said Minister Oda. "The 32 tons of supplies, such as tarps,...

Hurricane Dean Fades, Leaving Behind Less Damage Than Expected By MARC LACEY and ELISABETH MALKIN MEXICO CITY, Aug. 22 — Hurricane Dean, with its ferocious winds, monstrous Category 5 status and long trail of death and debris, was certainly no dud. But the weakened storm that swept ashore on Mexico’s gulf coast on Wednesday wreaked far less havoc than many anticipated it would. “Dean will be remembered for being a very intense hurricane that could have done a lot more than it did,” said Jeff Masters, a meteorologist who tracked the storm for Weather Underground, a Web-based weather service. One...

During an interview with Bill O'Reilly about Hurricane Dean, Accuweather expert Joe Bastardi stated that current oceanic temperature patterns mirror the patterns of the 1930's and 1940's. A chart was displayed showing the specific Pacific and Atlantic temperature patterns. Although Bastardi didn't clearly state that current conventional Global Warming theory is bunk, the CLEAR inference of his commentary was that the worshipers of the Religion of Global Warming are disconnected from history, and from the truth.

Hurricane Dean came ashore with 165 mph sustained winds and estimated 200 mph gusts near sparsely populated Majahual, a tourist cruise port in Costa Maya, Mexico. Dean's barometric pressure was the third lowest on record for an Atlantic Basin storm at landfall. It was the most powerful Atlantic storm at landfall since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. The storm weakened substantially as it crossed the Yucatan Peninsula, and entered into the waters of Campeche Bay as a Category 1 hurricane. Hurricane Dean's path is expected to cross a good portion of Mexico's oil fields. Mexican President Felipe Calderon stated no fatalities...

Please pray for our Missionaries in Punta Gorda,Belize. This will be the second hurricane they will have endured, but this one will be ALOT worse that the 1st. Pray for all in the area that GOD will provide shelter, comfort and relief during this terrible time of trouble!

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands — Hurricane Dean spared the Cayman Islands the worst of its fury on Monday as it headed for a collision course with Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, sending tourists fleeing for the airports and locals searching for higher ground. Dean was already a powerful Category 4 storm as it raked the Cayman Islands. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could grow into a monstrous Category 5 hurricane before slashing across the Yucatan Peninsula and emerging in the Gulf of Campeche, dotted with oil rigs. Dean was several days from Texas and its path still uncertain, but the...

Extremely dangerous Hurricane Dean is steaming toward the Yucatan Peninsula today, packing winds over 150 mph. The Hurricane Hunter aircraft aborted its mission Monday morning due to equipment problems. The storm is expected to attain catastrophic Category 5 status today. The Cayman Islands have been spared the brunt of the storm's winds as Dean passed 125 miles south of Grand Cayman. Jamaica continues to assess damage to its infrastructure after Dean uprooted trees, knocked down power lines, stripped off roofs, and dumped up to 20 inches of rain, causing mudslides in the mountains. The government of Jamaica has declared a...

The space shuttle Endeavour left the International Space Station (ISS) a day ahead of schedule and has started its journey home to get the jump on what looks to be a diminishing threat from Hurricane Dean. The spaceship, which launched on August 8, is set to land at Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on Tuesday (US time), a day earlier than planned. NASA had ordered the early return on fears Dean could turn toward the Texas coast and Johnson Space Centre, home of Mission Control, in Houston. But forecasters say the storm is instead on a collision course with Mexico....

What do you do when you are a journalist and you let your guard down with a blog posting claiming that Hurricane Dean was God's Wrath For President Bush? Why you later claim, heh-heh, that you were really joking all along and only meant to satirize Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell for statements made almost 6 years ago. Such was the lame excuse of former CNN reporter in response to my exposure here on NewsBusters of his Bush Derangement Syndrome in Former CNN Reporter Suggests Hurricane Dean God's Wrath Against Bush that I posted yesterday. My point, of course, wasn't that Feldman really...

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The price of crude oil is down some 8 percent since August 1. What the oil patch and every oil trader knows, one of the quickest ways to turn around this tumble is the drama of a good old fashioned hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico wending its way toward the Texas and Louisiana coasts. And Shazam! Here comes Hurricane Dean! Hurricane Dean's every little ripple will be reported by the oil industry flacks and their willing mouthpieces in the media. The crescendo of ominous events will be forecast and analyzed, all with a unanimity of purpose leading to higher...

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...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA on Saturday ordered space shuttle Endeavour back to Earth a day early out of fear that Hurricane Dean might disrupt flight operations. The shuttle is now scheduled to depart from the international space station on Sunday, and landing is set for Tuesday. The astronauts had hurriedly completed a shortened spacewalk Saturday and were still cleaning up from it when the decision came down from mission managers. The two crews shook hands and said goodbye, then closed the hatches between their docked spacecraft. NASA worried the hurricane might veer toward Houston, the home of Mission Control,...

One can get an idea of just how far severe Bush Derangement Syndrome has spread in the MSM by reading this blog posted by Charles Feldman, a CNN correspondent from 1983 to 2004. Now freed from the constraints of pretending to be unbiased in public, Feldman lets his BDS hang out for all to see in The Feldman Blog edition of August 17, Hurricane Dean: God’s Wrath For President Bush? Hurricane Dean, soon to be up graded to a full blown Category 5 hurricane, is taking aim at Texas…the state that gave us George W. Bush. In fact,this could be a...

Tracking Hurricane Dean on Google Earth Google Earth is a wonderful tool for the integration and visualization of different georeferenced datasets. With Hurricane Dean approaching the Gulf of Mexico, damage to the Gulf of Mexico oil and gas infrastructure is likely. Below, I give some useful Google Earth add-ons that will enable you to visualize the latest storm forecasts/imagery along with data about the Gulf of Mexico Oil&Gas production (click on the various links to install the individual tools or download this kmz file that will install a Hurricane folder in google Earth containing all the tools below): graphoilogy.blogspot.comShot at...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia — Hurricane Dean barreled across the eastern Caribbean Saturday and took aim at Hispaniola, Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, with forecasters saying it could turn into a monster Category 5 storm within 72 hours. With sustained winds now at 150 mph, Dean left behind floods, debris and at least three deaths on the islands of St. Lucia, Martinique and Dominica on Friday. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season, the Category 4 Dean was expected to gain power as it moves across the warm waters of the Caribbean through the weekend. The National Hurricane Center in Miami...

Don't look now -- but Hurricane Dean could be headed for Louisiana (possibly Terrebonne Parish). The very reliable GDFL model indicates that Hurricane Dean may take a more northwesterly track than other models that have it heading into Texas and Mexico. The pull north may occur if the upper level low in place takes it sweet time dissipating. If that happens, then Katy bar the door. Next Tuesday could be very interesting. There is still a lot of ocean between Jamaica and the cental Gulf Coast; so conditions may change. One thing is certain -- this Storm will be very...