Jamaica Comes Under Assault From Hurricane Dean
The News Review:
- Jamaica Comes Under Assault From Hurricane Dean
- Fearing Hurricane NASA rders Shuttle Home Early
- Feds advise Texans to prepare to evacuate as Hurricane Dean approaches
- Evacuations Urged As Hurricane Dean Heads Toward Texas Coast
- Crude il Falls as Hurricane Forecast to Miss Gulf Platforms
- Update on Hurricane Dean; Flooding in klahoma
Jamaica Comes Under Assault From Hurricane Dean
New York Times – Aug 19, 2007
19 Hurricane Dean left a trail of destruction as it surged across the Caribbean today toppling buildings on islands along its periphery and taking at least eight lives. But it is in the tourist haven of Jamaica where the powerful storm is expected to leave its most destructive mark. Skip to next paragraph Multimedia… “For the last time I’m asking you to leave or you will be in danger” Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller warned residents over the radio today in a last-ditch attempt to get them to head to shelters. Her plea seemed to go unheeded as the vast majority of the 1000 shelters set up around the island remained empty officials said. The first hurricane of the Atlantic season Dean is a deadly Category 4 storm that experts say is on course to hit the Yucat?Peninsula in Mexico by Tuesday. By then as it moves through the deep water of the western Caribbean it may increase in intensity to a Category 5 with winds in excess of 160 miles an hour forecasters say. “It is a potentially devastating hurricane” Dennis Feltgen a meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an interview. “Like any Category 4 it is capable of extensive damage. Roofs may come off.
Fearing Hurricane NASA rders Shuttle Home Early
Washington Post – Aug 19, 2007
The astronauts had hurriedly completed a shortened spacewalk Saturday and were still cleaning up from it when the decision was announced by mission managers. The shuttle and space station crews shook hands and said goodbye then closed the hatches between their docked spacecraft. NASA is concerned that the hurricane might veer toward.
Feds advise Texans to prepare to evacuate as Hurricane Dean approaches
International Herald Tribune – Aug 19, 2007
ne drowning was blamed on the flooding and a motorist was missing local and state officials said. The level of preparation for Dean was influenced by memories of two destructive hurricanes that hammered the Gulf Coast region in 2005. “We're preparing for Hurricane Dean just as if it is going to be direct hit” said Johnny Cavazos the chief emergency director for Cameron County. “In part it is because of the unfortunate events from Rita and Katrina. ” During Rita the evacuation quickly turned into a nightmare of clogged highways stalled traffic and sweltering heat as motorists from the coast ran into residents fleeing Houston. Gas stations ran out of fuel and supplies and drivers sat for hours on gridlocked evacuation routes. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Dean was projected to reach the most dangerous hurricane classification Category 5 with wind of 160 mph (257 kph) before crashing into the Mexican coastline near Cancun on Monday night or Tuesday… ” During Rita the evacuation quickly turned into a nightmare of clogged highways stalled traffic and sweltering heat as motorists from the coast ran into residents fleeing Houston. Gas stations ran out of fuel and supplies and drivers sat for hours on gridlocked evacuation routes. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Dean was projected to reach the most dangerous hurricane classification Category 5 with wind of 160 mph (257 kph) before crashing into the Mexican coastline near Cancun on Monday night or Tuesday. The storm was forecast to make landfall Wednesday likely somewhere along the coast of northern Mexican or southern Texas the hurricane center said. Rick Perry mobilized the National Guard and got a pre-emptive federal disaster declaration from President George W.
Evacuations Urged As Hurricane Dean Heads Toward Texas Coast
FXNews – Aug 19, 2007
17: A boat sinks as it takes on water amid debris after Hurricane Dean hit Martinique. jpg”Satellite image of Hurricane Dean in Caribbean… The Rita evacuation quickly turned into a disaster as motorists from the coast ran into residents fleeing Houston clogging evacuation routes for miles in sweltering heat. Gas stations closed after running out of fuel and supplies and motorists sat stranded and helpless for hours. People also were preparing in New rleans where the memory of Hurricane Katrina is still fresh. Patrice Garibaldi said her family was beginning to pack things they might need if they left the city and put things they’d leave behind higher. The family has rebuilt a house in eastern New rleans and Garibaldi said the threat of Dean was nerve-racking. “I pray it doesn’t come” she said but her family is preparing because she’s not satisfied the levees will be able to withstand a strong storm. President Bush signed a pre-landfall emergency disaster declaration for Texas allowing federal equipment and supplies to be moved in now White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said.
Crude il Falls as Hurricane Forecast to Miss Gulf Platforms
Bloomberg – Aug 19, 2007
20 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil fell in New York on signsHurricane Dean's more southerly track may mean it will miss thelargest oil production regions of the Gulf of Mexico. Dean an “extremely dangerous'' Category 4 hurricane ispassing just to the south of Jamaica and may cross Mexico'sYucatan Peninsula tomorrow the National Weather Service said inits latest advisory. The Gulf of Mexico accounts for about 27percent of U. oil output mostly along the northern coastbetween Texas and Florida… oil output mostly along the northern coastbetween Texas and Florida. “The movement in Hurricane Dean which is obviously fairlyintense and posing a danger to islands in the Caribbean isn'tnow being seen as quite as much of a threat to U. production inthe Gulf of Mexico'' said.
Update on Hurricane Dean; Flooding in klahoma
CNN International – Aug 19, 2007
WHITFIELD: Winds from Hurricane Dean already pounding the eastern end of Jamaica. Texas is bracing now for a possible hit next week. CNN is your hurricane headquarters and we’ll bring the live coverage of a FEMA briefing on the storm in about 15 minutes from now. I said good- bye to Jacqui. But I didn’t mean it… But anyway you can see a tropical storm rotation like you see over the Gulf. And it was really strange to see it circulating over klahoma. And of course we a couple different tornado warning and high wind advisories and different things and part of I-40 was shut down for about six hours but I guess the accumulation of all the rain that came down during those hours on to these agriculture fields and runoff in to streams and creek tributaries and eventually to rivers these floodwaters came out and now what we’re looking at is over at Kingfisher County the Town of Kingfisher. Kingfisher Creek is higher than it’s ever been before. There’s probably 200 300 people that are displaced out of their residences and of course we just witnessed all this stuff that happened with the rescues with our helicopters. And there’s just a huge amount of water dumped on us. And as the hours went this stuff accumulated in to these big flooded plain areas that we’re looking at.