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« on: October 23, 2010, 01:14:29 PM » |
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I believe GoB has raised the status of the "watch" to "hurricane watch", though I don't know how to confirm that.
All along the SP shore people are boarding up buildings, evacuating contents to shore buildings, and removing planks from docks. Later today and tomorrow morning they'll remove all boats to the mangroves at the back. I hope this'll be another near-false alarm, but as the hours pass Richard is looking more threatening and there will undoubtedly be damage from this one. I hope my judgement, which I now can't do anything about, NOT to board up my house does not prove to have been horribly wrong. But Hurricane Dean three years ago had wind gusts by my house of 140mph and nothing happened to it, and this one isn't forecast to be anything like as bad.
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Inplub
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« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2010, 01:31:24 PM » |
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Only time will tell.
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« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010, 04:56:10 PM » |
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It looks to be tracking farther south than they originally thought, so SP won't take the brunt of it. Dangriga though could be in for some fun.
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« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2010, 06:40:22 PM » |
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We will keep our fingers crossed it is another near miss and hopefully that will do it for the season!!!!!!!!
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peterbj7
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« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2010, 09:07:11 PM » |
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If it passes to the south of AC the winds here will be from the east, the ocean, which is at least what we expect and have prepared for.
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peterbj7
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« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2010, 09:45:06 AM » |
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Well it's all over, and for AC at any rate it was a non-event. I was out walking the dog as darkness fell, and only found out later it was the height of the storm. Several times since I've lived here I've experienced massively worse than that. I had a call from the US at around 10pm asking what was going on, as they were being told the country had been devastated, with many buildings destroyed and no electricity anywhere in the country. I daresay some shacks in the impact zone south of Belize City may have been demolished, but with winds of just 90 mph I can't see any properly constructed building having suffered much - we had 60% more than that in Dean with little damage. The AP also reported that tourists had been evacuated from CC and AC - I can't speak for CC but any tourists who left AC did so of their own accord, and there was no official evacuation. I saw a number of tourists late yesterday who had obviously decided to ride it out. There will be some dock damage and more beach erosion here on AC, but I can't see much worse having happened.
Reminds me of dramatic BBC reports years ago of street violence, buildings being set on fire, cars overturned etc, in the centre of Cape Town. I phoned a friend who worked right in the middle of the "battle zone" and asked him what was happening. After walking outside and checking he said "nothing at all, completely normal day".
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