Dennis the Menace watch

[Reynarda]

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How is Negril? BarBBarn? Anyone in touch with Seveen? I dont have any way to contact her, so if you do, please say I am thinking of her. Jo

[Rita Brown]

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I prayed..damn proud of it..I'm not Jamaican but a friend to all. We are all one people in the eyes of....fill in the blank however u choose.

[Jamaicamiss]

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Originally posted by bink:
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Originally posted by Jamaica Miss:
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Originally posted by mrsbcruz:
[qb] I'm so happy to hear that jamaica was spared for the most part from dennis.
I went to church and prayed that everyone in the carib. would be alright!
I can't wait to see all of my jamaican friends in a week and im so glad you are all safe. [/qb]

I cannot prove this, but I know in my heart the prayers are what moved that eye a little more off shore. It happened with Ivan and now on a smaller scale with Dennis. Thank you MBC and all Jamaicans and friends who prayed for us. And have a great time next week. Hope to meet you someday. [/qb]

i am trying to respect this thought, but come on, JM ... you saying the folks in caymans, cuba, haiti and the states are unable to pray as hard as those in ja?

makes my stomach turn.

if i prayed, i would have prayed for all of them ... including cuba where 20 ppl died. [/qb]

First of all you don't need to respect my thoughts. Second your stomach turning doesn't compare to what was going on here in Jamaica during Dennis.

Because I am selfish about my adopted country when America barely covered the news here doesn't mean that I wasn't praying and still pray for all the people in it's path. Yes, I wanted the thing to go away, but being realistic, we all knew it was going to hit somewhere. My prayers were and are that it would not hit any country hard.

[Q3210]

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Dennis has grown since he left Jamaica in its wake from a Category 2 to a Cat. 4 as it looms up on Alabama and/or north west Florida. More Americans battening down with sheets of ply than you`d see us do in Jamaica, yet the texture of the houses in America do not stand up to the forces of a hurricane like a typical block and steel walled house in Jamaica will do.
The most susceptible part of any house is the roof except for those built with concrete slabs.

Weather person says that Dennis is a one in a 200 year hurricane and it will be the first Cat. 4 to hit the American coastline.

[Tuff Gong]

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Like I said Environmental degradation is making Jamaica become Little Haiti, every hard rain is deadly. For all the people who are praying, pray not only that we don't get the eye of a hurricane, pray that we don't even get heavy rains.

Thousands marooned
Relief supplies being flown in
Observer Reporter
Sunday, July 10, 2005

Relief supplies began reaching thousands of St Thomas residents who have been marooned since Thursday after being hit by fierce winds and torrential rains from the outer bands of Hurricane Dennis, the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM) said yesterday.

The disaster management agency also said it would today begin airlifting stranded residents out of Cascade, a small district near the borders of St Andrew and Portland in the Blue Mountain range.

ODPEM said it had delivered supplies to Clarendon, St Catherine and St Ann over the last few days, then turned its attention yesterday to the eastern parishes of St Thomas, Portland, St Mary and "other areas that have been cut off".

According to Dr Barbara Carby, the head of ODPEM, yesterday's trips had been pushed back to give priority to medical airlifts being conducted by the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF).

"There were two instances involving pregnant women and another involving a man with a broken leg," she said late yesterday.


Huge boulders and silt deposited along the Eleven Miles main road in Bull Bay. (Photo: Joseph Wellington)

"There were individual flights because the persons were in different sections of the parish, so individual flights had to be made. So the food flights were delayed. But at least one should have gone off this evening."

The lack of food was the biggest problem for parish residents, said Opposition Leader Bruce Golding, fresh from a tour of St Thomas yesterday afternoon.

"The most urgent need now is food," he told the Sunday Observer. "The shops are completely empty and supplies will have to be flown in."

ODPEM's supplies should be beefed up today with the arrival of a 9:00 am flight transporting 10 tons of relief items, including blankets, mats for sitting, water containers and bottled water from Venezuela. Cuba, before being battered itself by Hurricane Dennis, had sent 11 tons of food items on Friday.

But there have been problems getting supplies into areas, like St Thomas, where there has been significant damage to the roads.

The Government will decide, after today's tour of the parishes most badly affected by the passage of Hurricane Dennis, which sections of the island, if any, will be declared disaster areas.

The list may likely include sections of western St Thomas and Portland, which have been among the areas most badly affected as the storm passed by the island's north-eastern coastline last Thursday.

After a tour of these two parishes yesterday, Transport and Works Minister Robert Pickersgill told the Sunday Observer that some sections "may well be called disaster areas".
Golding said from his initial visit to St Thomas, the damage to roads was much worse than that caused by Hurricane Ivan last September.

"The most devastating damage is to the roads and bridges. Some areas are completely cut off, and will be for quite a while," he said.

The fear is that sections of St Thomas will not be accessible to vehicular traffic any time soon. The eastern parish had been getting rains even before Thursday when the situation deteriorated sharply.

"There are a number of sick individuals who have been marooned in the Trinityville Division and the Cedar Valley Division, in some cases for six days because they have been cut off from Monday when they have been having heavy rains," James Robertson, the member of parliament for West St Thomas, said yesterday.

Robertson said residents of Hagley Gap and Pen Line had not been able to get out, and no assistance had reached them up to the time he was speaking yesterday morning.

He estimated that 10,000 people had been stranded in the Trinityville and Cedar Valley divisions. Of that number, he said, about 4,000 had initially been directly affected as the storm passed near the island. Up to yesterday, about 1,000 persons still remained in shelters, he said.

Over in Clarendon, the MP for the south eastern section of the parish, Ruddy Spencer, estimated that more than 500 persons were still housed in shelters across the parish up to Friday night.
"In Rocky settlement, a number of people are cut off by water," he said.

"In Gayle, all those people are flooded out and the community of Longwood is cut off because the Alley Bridge and part of the roadway have been cut off."

Spencer said other problem spots in the parish included Kennedy Grove in Palmers Cross, where a number of houses were still covered by water; and Chateau, where five families had to be temporarily relocated after their homes were flooded.

"They were moved out Thursday night and are still not yet back home," he said yesterday. "In Halse Hall, we had to open a shelter because some 35 houses in and around a sink hole were totally flooded out - the water was up to shoulder height."
The Halse Hall Basic School was being used as a shelter for more than 100 people, he said. There were also problems in several other communities.

"In Lionel Town, the area was flooded out badly. In Mitchell Town, the entire area is under water and on one street we had to use a boat on the road," Spencer said.

"In Portland Cottage (which took a severe battering from Hurricane Ivan last September), every street is covered with water. We have opened three shelters there, housing almost 350 persons," Spencer added.

Thousands marooned

[Shefreen Clarke]

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DANG!

[Q3210]

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Think we living in heaven, but we living in hell. Especially if a hurricane was to hit us dead centre.

[Green_Biscuit]

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Reynarda, I spoke with a friend of mine last night. He had talked with her yesterday afternoon, and she and her son are just fine.

[Tuff Gong]

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<a href="http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=18443" target="_blank">Sun Jul 10, 2005
P.M. tours hurricane damaged areas Sunday </a>

<a href="http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&story=18441" target="_blank">Sun Jul 10, 2005
Fuel shortage hits Portland

There is a severe shortage of fuel in some sections of Portland.
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[Q3210]

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Tour or fly-over? The PM hardly is going to set down on soddy ground except for a few chosen places.

[Q3210]

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North west Florida doesn`t look good.
Dennis moving in at 18mph. At least he isn`t going to hover eternally. Winds at 140 mph around the center.
This guy is going to do some amount of damage.
Floridians, we are with you hoping that you get out of this one.

[Q3210]

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The storm before the eye comes ashore in 2 hours is the mildest. After the eye, is the worst and more longlasting due to the tail that follows the eye.

[Scubanewbydoo]

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Hello Lovely People... I wanted to let you know I agree there is not enough news coverage from America when it comes to Jamaica. I was trying to find out just how you all are because I am in North Alabama alittle over 400 miles from Northwest Florida and we are about to be hit with the Hurricane as well. Yes, due to the wind gusts it is called an inland hurricane for us. Already Power outages in lower central and south Alabama winds of 70mph and it's just starting. I want you all to know Divers in my area always keep you in our thoughts and prayers because we love to visit your country and we will continue to visit and spend our savings [img]/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] Thank You for keeping up with the storms when they head north to us. Planning my visit now. I hope to be there soon. I really like your forum... nice job...Keep Safe, Scubanewbydoo

[Q3210]

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Keep coming to Jamaica, Scuba and good luck with Dennis.

[Jamaicamiss]

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Scuba: we will pray for you and the states being hit by Dennis. Keep in touch with us here. We want to know you are safe. Peace n nuf luv, JM