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Hurricane Season 2005
Tropical Storm Philippe is predicted to strengthen and to be Catagory 1 before passing St. Maarten. Katrina and Ophelia have both shown us all how damaging and unpredictable storms can be. One forecaster predicts TD 17 to be the "First major Hurricane of September". Please click the link above where I have compiled a few forcasts and links to encourage you all to follow this one closely
Weather links, news, reports and more below.
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Hurricane names for 2005 are:
Arlene, Bret, Cindy, Dennis, Emily, Franklyn, Gert, Harvey, Irene, Jose, Katrina, Lee, Maria, Nate, Orphelia, Philippe. Rita, Stan, Tammy, Vince, Wilma
Weather links
Intellicast
NOAA Satelite Images.
Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency.
Weather Underground
TBO Hurricane Weather Center.
I gotta say flipper I'll take the snow in Minnesota over one of your storms.!
U.N. warns Caribbean ill-prepared for hurricanes
02 Jun 2005 00:55:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Anthony Boadle
HAVANA, June 1 (Reuters) - Tropical storms and hurricanes killed thousands in Caribbean nations last year, and could claim more lives this year because the region is not prepared to cope with the deadly natural disasters, U.N. special relief coordinator Jan Egeland said on Wednesday.
Climate changes have doubled the number of hurricanes in the last 15 years, Egeland said, and poorer countries such as Haiti, Grenada and Guyana are not prepared for new disasters, while others are improvising.
"I've warned the world it is not going to get better, it is going to become worse. We owe it to the people to prepare them," he told reporters during a disaster preparedness workshop.
Egeland criticized the United States and Europe for giving too little funding to help set up national disaster prevention plans in one of the most disaster-prone areas of the world.
"It is totally unacceptable that thousands of people die every year in this region and we have an enormous development setback every year," he said.
Last year, 5,000 Haitians died in floods, and Grenada was devastated by Hurricane Ivan.
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Andria Grosvenor, project manager for the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency, said other nations could learn from Cuba's public information policies. "All Cubans know what to do and where to go when there is a threat," she said.
Full article at link
National Geographic
News from Grenada
And Climate change: Let the lawyers sue for you.
3rd June 2005
Hurricane passes ready!
I gotta say its greek to me.
Down here when a Hurricane is coming we have curfews which are announced by the Lt. Governor. Basically you usually have a few days warning if you watch the weather daily, so you have time to stock up, athough most people with sense usually start buying extra this time of the year to save rushing too much at the last moment.
Hurricane passes are issued to people with essential jobs or businesses, or if they are working for island services ect. If you are on the road without a pass during a curfew then you are likely to spend the hurricane in a police cell.
Passes a fairly new thing that started after Hurricane Luis messed us up here in 1995. There were 3 days of pretty much no governance and then 4 weeks or so of curfew, 6pm till 6am I think it was. You got to keep in mind it took that long for most people to get electricity and a roof of sorts.
Perhaps if we can get some of the "locals" here to conquer thier fear of the internet you may get to see some photos or stories of that time. I have a few, somewhere, I'll fish them out. Be content with your snow storms Tina, hurricanes are not much fun, especially the picking up after.
Cayman Islands Hurricane Ivan videos.
I could only get the first to work though, let me know if you the others to.