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Thought you guys might like to see what is happening down south. Louisiana mostly New Orleans got slammed by Tropical Storm Cindy, 250.000 persons without power for days. Debris like falling tree limbs and actual trees all over the place. My own front and back looked like we had been thru a heavy Hurricane.
The weather people misjudged Cindy and instead of just rain we were practically blown apart and drowned.
After news of Dennis, the entire city has been on alert to leave. All hotels filled up to Jackson, Miss. So some are headed to Houston.
We have a place to go that is safe and in the mountain region of Miss straight North from New Orleans.
Now we hear we will get the left side which consists of storms and wind gusts up to 50MPH.
I feel so bad for the Florida people, Last year they had 4 hit them head on.
Anyway here is the latest. Sad! I even spent time looking up Back up generators for myself. Even though its too late to help now there is always the next one .
This next one Dennis is supposed to go after the Gulf Coast and Florida.
KEY WEST, Fla. - Coastal residents packed up and evacuated or hunkered down Saturday as Hurricane Dennis lashed the Florida Keys with wind and sheets of rain and charged toward areas still rebuilding from last year’s storms.
More than 1 million people from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana were under evacuation orders. Landfall was expected Sunday afternoon anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to southeast Louisiana.
“This is a very dangerous storm and we hope that you will evacuate,” Gov. Jeb Bush said to residents in the Panhandle.
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The storm, the earliest to reach Category 4 strength in the Caribbean on record, was expected to bring up to 8 inches of rain and 6-foot storm surges Saturday. It was blamed for at least 10 deaths in Cuba and 10 in Haiti.
Tampa tornado's
Several tornado touchdowns in the Tampa Bay area caused minor damage such as downed trees, and more tornadoes and battering waves were likely in parts of the Gulf of Mexico coast Sunday.
The storm decreased in strength to Category 1 after passing over Cuba, but strengthened again as it moved over open water into a Category 2, with top winds of 100 mph.
More than 211,000 homes and businesses were without power Saturday in the southern tip of Florida, including the entire city of Key West, officials said.
The hurricane’s eye passed west of the island Saturday morning, but it still produced stinging rain and wind gusts that buckled windows. Tree branches, plywood, street signs and other debris littered the streets, and awnings hung precariously from storefronts. Waves crashed over a seawall, sending sand and coral onto a main road. About three blocks of the tourist drag of Duval Street was under 1 foot of water.
“We’re holding up,” Key West Mayor Jimmy Weekley said. “The biggest damage right now of course is the power being off.”
No injuries were reported, but residents braced for battering 8-foot waves on top of 3-foot storm surges expected in the Keys. Rainfall in Key West was about 2.8 inches Friday and early Saturday; forecasts called for up to 8 inches.
Fleeing the storm
Traffic doubled on some Mississippi roads as people fled Florida, Alabama and Louisiana. Alabama officials were turning Interstate 65 into a one-way route north from the coast to Montgomery.
“All day long all of our phones have been ringing. The only thing we can tell people is that we are sold out,” said Lasonya Lewis, a clerk at a Montgomery hotel.
About a half-million people in coastal Alabama and more than 700,000 in the Keys and low-lying areas of the Florida Gulf Coast were under evacuation orders.
Normally busy shops in Key West were boarded up and one liquor store had a sign that read: “Dennis Don’t Be a Menace.” Still, a few places were open to feed the holdouts.
“We’ve never been in a hurricane before, or even near one,” said David Keeley of Peterborough, England, who drank at Sloppy Joe’s bar and made plans to go back to his hotel with his wife, “lock the door, pull the blinds and hope for the best.”
“If the power stays on, we’ve got the TV. We’ve got the mini bar. We’ve got each other,” he said.
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07-09-2005 09:21 PM
