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CUBAN President Fidel Castro has offered to help the United States, by sending 1,100 doctors and medicine to treat the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Some 100 doctors could board a flight to Houston, Texas, as soon as today and 1,000 could arrive tomorrow and the day after, Castro said in a radio and television address. Cuba would also send 26.4 tonnes of medicines. "Cuba is ready to help immediately," he said. "We offer concrete things, doctors to the site of the tragedy, which is exactly what is missing now." Castro said a diplomatic note containing the offer was sent today...

Order to evacuate entire county went against advice Sunday, July 24, 2005 By JEFF AMY and BILL FINCH Staff Reporters By calling for all of Mobile County to flee during Hurricane Dennis, local officials went against the prevailing wisdom of hurricane planners nationwide and disregarded federally sponsored evacuation guidance adopted by county emergency management officials five years ago. "Run from the water, hide from the wind," is the phrase long used by the National Hurricane Center to sum up its advice on evacuations. That means people who live in areas that might be flooded by storm surge should get out,...

For some people along U.S. 98, Dennis proved especially harsh. A road trip from Navarre to St. Marks is a drive through anger, heartache and endurance. It wasn't as bad as Ivan. That was the easy thing to say about Hurricane Dennis. And in many ways it's true. Fewer people died. Fewer houses crumbled. It brought relief to hearts once occupied by misery. But for some poor souls along the battered ribbon of U.S. 98, Dennis proved far worse. We traveled the length of the highway in one long, slow, detour-filled day, from Navarre on the west to St. Marks...

Tyranny: Fidel Castro is facing revolts after Cuba was hit by its worst hurricane in memory. The destruction will cost $3 billion. But Castro is doing everything he can to keep aid out. And that's an outrage.

ARLINGTON, Va. (Army News Service, July 13, 2005) – More than 5,000 National Guard Soldiers and Airmen from four states rolled out or stood by to help when the hurricane season began earlier than usual this year. Hurricane Dennis battered Pensacola and the surrounding Florida Panhandle July 10, a Sunday afternoon and evening, with 120-mph winds, and cut a northwest track into Alabama before quickly losing steam. It was the first major hurricane in seven decades to hit the United States in July and one of only seven major hurricanes to occur in July during 150 years that records have...

BP Plc. said late Monday that Thunder Horse, one if its big Gulf of Mexico deepwater oil rigs, was listing badly after Hurricane Dennis swept through area this past weekend. The semi-submersible rig, an essential component in the development of the Thunder Horse oil and gas field on Mississippi Canyon Block 778, about 150 miles southeast of New Orleans, was heeled over at an angle of 20 to 30 degrees, the company said. While too early to say what caused the rig to lean, righting and repairing it could pose a costly delay to BP's plans to bring the field...

LifeSouth Community Blood Centers and the American Red Cross put out a call for donors over the weekend because blood supplies are low and likely to worsen in the wake of Hurricane Dennis. A hurricane isn't usually the kind of disaster that uses up the blood supply. But officials point out that hurricanes and the storms, tornadoes and flooding that follow affect the amount of blood available as drives are often canceled and offices may be damaged or closed. "It makes what's already a short supply even more tentative," said Rick Cantrell, executive director of the Madison/Marshall County Chapter of...

Many FReepers were in the path of Hurricane Dennis--please check in to let us know you are safe.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Gerald Duffy, a 59 year-old retiree, sat on his front porch, under overcast skies and light rain, waiting for Dennis to come in. "I've ridden them out before," he said. "It won't be my first rodeo." Duffy pointed to a vacant lot across the street where large limbs had been ripped from a tree last week during Tropical Storm Cindy and said he respected the power of nature but had confidence in his red brick home. "She's withstood them for 75 years," he said of the home. "Running from them gets just as dangerous with all...

Underneath their lead headline about the approach of Hurricane Dennis, ABC News, in their infinte wisdom, has bannered a headline that reads, "Global Warming To Intensify Hurricane Fury," which, of course, would lead one to believe -- at least according to the "learned opinion" of ABC News -- that global warming is responsible for the ferocity of Hurricane Dennis, and it hitting the same area devestated by Hurricane Ivan last summer.Once you pull the story up, you see that it's an add-on piece that helps to bolster their position that global warming will wreak havoc over the world's weather --...

UPDATED: 1:42 am EDT July 10, 2005 A "monster" Hurricane Dennis is expected to slam into the Gulf Coast Sunday as a Category 4 storm with 140 mph winds, according to Local 6 meteorologist Tom Sorrells. Hurricane Dennis will be a "monster" storm when it slams into the north Gulf Coast tonight and will likely cause widespread devastation, according to Local 6 meteorologist Tom Sorrells. "This storm just flat out blew up," Sorrells said. "This thing is going to devastate where it hits. It's a monster Category 4 storm by tonight. It's going to be a huge national story for...

...Extremely dangerous Hurricane Dennis headed for the northern Gulf of Mexico coast...Hurricane Dennis resources--the links are self-updating for handy reference:NHC Hurricane Public Advisory Updates Currently published every two hours 1A, 3A, 5A, 7A, 9A, 11A, 1P...etc. ET. Mobile AL Long Range RadarNorthwest Florida Long Range Extended Radar SE US Radar Low resolution still image for the bandwidth impared NHC Hurricane Discussion Updates Published every 6 hours 5A, 11A, 5P, 11P ET Eastern Gulf of Mexico Buoy DataGulf of Mexico IR LoopGulf of Mexico Visible Loop (Only works during daylight hours) SE US Radar still image Hurricane Track ForecastHurricane Model ProjectionsTelevision...

Hey, we still have electricity! The rain just stopped. No wind. No storm. Everything is calm. The crickets are playing their music outside. They have no idea what's coming! ;-) We made some pictures of Hurricane Dennis today.This link takes you to my home page which is hosted on a free server. Please, DO NOT CLICK ON THE REFRESH or RELOAD button in your browser. Do not put a lot of stress on the server. (If 200 people want to download the pictures at once that may cause my home page to go offline.) Good bye! I am afraid that...

Hurricane Dennis resources--the links and graphics are self-updating for handy reference:NHC Hurricane Public Advisory Updates Currently published every two hours 1A, 3A, 5A, 7A, 9A, 11A, 1P...etc. ET. It may drop back to every three hours 11A, 2P, etc. NHC Hurricane Discussion Updates Published every 6 hours 5A, 11A, 5P, 11P ET Gulf of Mexico IR LoopGulf of Mexico Visible Loop (Only works during daylight hours) Mobile AL Extended Radar LoopNorthWest FL Extended Radar LoopTampa Bay Extended Radar SE US Radar still image

Hurricane Dennis stalked Cuba's southern coast before making landfall Friday as it aimed to slice across the Caribbean's largest island, packing 145 mph (235 kph) winds capable of catastrophic damage that sent thousands fleeing the Florida Keys and raised fears of more disruption to U.S. oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Winds and heaving surf tossed a lifeguard tower into the sea and roared over a razor-wire fence at the U.S. detention camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, on the island's eastern end. An evacuation order was in effect in the Florida Keys, where officials feared Dennis would...

Hurricane Dennis in Gulf of MexicoHurricane Dennis resources--the links and graphics are self-updating for handy reference:NHC Hurricane Public Advisory Updates Currently published every two hours 1A, 3A, 5A, 7A, 9A, 11A, 1P...etc. ET. It may drop back to every three hours 11A, 2P, etc. NHC Hurricane Discussion Updates Published every 6 hours 5A, 11A, 5P, 11P ET Gulf of Mexico IR LoopGulf of Mexico Visible Loop (Only works during daylight hours) SE US Radar still image

Hurricane Dennis Thread Part IHurricane Dennis resources--the links and graphics are self-updating for handy reference:NHC Hurricane Public Advisory Updates Published every three hours 2A, 5A, 8A, 11A...etc. ET NHC Hurricane Discussion Updates Published every 6 hours 5A, 11A, 5P, 11P ET Gulf of Mexico IR LoopGulf of Mexico Visible Loop (Only works during daylight hours) SE US Radar still image

washingtonpost.com By STEVENSON JACOBS The Associated Press Friday, July 8, 2005; 12:29 AM ...The Cayman Islands and Cuba were under hurricane warnings, including the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay holding some 520 terror suspects. The hurricane center warned the eye could pass over central Cuba sometime Friday afternoon. In the communist-run island, where the military-style government has been praised by the United Nations for its extensive hurricane preparedness plans, more than 100,000 people had been evacuated in the island's southeast, civil defense officials said on state television. There were no immediate plans to evacuate detainees or troops from the...

I live in the Fl Keys, but at this moment I am 7000 feet above sea level in central Mexico. Looking for indut from any about Hurricane Dennis, input from Keys in particular. I am in an internet cafe in San Miguel de Allende Mexico, have seen NOA web site, but looking for local info from Keys regarding Dennis. My wife´s daughter is staying at our house in the Thank you. Will check back for response in a bit.