Hurricane Dean Heads For Direct Hit On Jamaica

Associated Press:

Jamaicans headed inland and tourists fled the country as Hurricane Dean headed for a direct hit on the island Sunday after a deadly and destructive march across the eastern Caribbean. Coastal Texas and Mexico began evacuations, with many Texans hoping to avoid the disastrous last-minute exodus before Hurricane Rita in 2005.

Jamaica converted schools, churches and the indoor national sports arena into shelters and authorities urged people to take cover from a storm that could rake the country with winds of 145 mph and dump up to 20 inches of rain.

Read the whole story: Associated Press

Comments

[grainger5]

03:37 PM on 08/20/2007

Hurricane Dean Pounds Jamaica, and boy is she ever happy!

[ExposingCommunists]

02:30 PM on 08/20/2007

The Almighty Bush does cause hurricanes! Don't you think we should change the Constitution so he could be President for life? Those Chavez supporters would agree don't you think?

[grainger5]

11:59 AM on 08/20/2007

May Jamaica's beautiful mountains and beaches disappear; until there be nothing but rocks and sand. May the same happen to the entire Carribean, until those places are entirely drowned.

[cocksman]

01:44 PM on 08/20/2007

Self loathing can occur when one is confined to one's mother's basement like yourself. Advocating the destruction of an entire community by scums like you only reinforce the need for mandatory abortion laws to curtain degenerates like youself

[grainger5]

03:38 PM on 08/20/2007

What part of "entirely drowned" do you not understand?

[grainger5]

11:57 AM on 08/20/2007

May Jamaica be entirely leveled by this hurricane.

[IRIE]

12:07 PM on 08/20/2007

That was evil. But that would be expected from a backra.

[cocksman]

01:25 PM on 08/20/2007

Apparently a " PUTRID" animal like you are still contemptuous by your wretched birth

[midwestgayguy]

10:51 AM on 08/20/2007

Jamaica... land where gay people are beaten and murdered just for being alive. I hope it gets wiped clean. Geographically its a beautiful place. The people and the government SUCK.

[cocksman]

01:16 PM on 08/20/2007

Jamaicans only "SUCK" the opposite sex as GOD intended

[JulieSA]

11:08 PM on 08/19/2007

test

[coyote4]

11:46 PM on 08/19/2007

test

[BeerHolder]

01:01 AM on 08/20/2007

testicle

[squareyellowpaper]

09:23 PM on 08/19/2007

I hope the people of Jamaica who have nothing much to begin with, do not suffer terribly from this storm.

How natue has brought nothing but suffering to the poorest people in the world.

Just look at India, Banalagesh, and Peru. What a mess!

[cheneyhasawarmachine]

05:46 PM on 08/19/2007

you libs are dispicable people as you sit back and hope the hurricane hits america so you can blame Bush for more death and destruction of american...if it misses america and only hits mexico will you credit Bush??? idiots.

[WorkingClass]

06:15 PM on 08/19/2007

How did you know I was sitting back and hoping the hurricane hits America so I can blame Bush for more death and destruction of american? If it misses America and only hits Mexico I will not credit Bush. So HaHaHa. This board needs better trolls.

[bodiebroadus]

06:15 PM on 08/19/2007

Uh, there are only 5 comments on this story and your's is the only one that mentions Bush. You're unfairly putting words in the mouths of others.

[ceasenake]

04:41 PM on 08/19/2007

The Rastas will probably be running the show for a while after the storm hits.

The worshipers of Haile Selassie will probably take over parts of the country until the Govt gets back on it's feet.

I wouldn't want to be a white devil stuck down there right now.

[cocksman]

07:03 PM on 08/19/2007

Don't confuse Muslim with RASTAFARI. Rasta teachings is not to hate white or black but to denounce oppression cause by both selfish white and black devil...hence ganja smoking to "weed" out the evil doers and their thoughts.

[ceasenake]

07:17 PM on 08/19/2007

Really?

Have you ever been to Jamaica - or St. Croix in the US VI's?

Here's a site you might learn from -

http://www.jamaicans.com/culture/rasta/race_women.shtml

[NoahVail]

07:12 PM on 08/19/2007

You have obviously never been to Jamaica. When has the government ever been on its feet? The only reason that there are Jamaicans there is because the government (English or Spanish) was never able to control Cockpit Land in the interior. On Cuba, where the landscape is flatter, the Spanish killed all of the natives.

White people are treated much better there than blacks are here, BTW.

[ceasenake]

07:54 PM on 08/19/2007

I hope you are right!

I saw it go bad in 1989 when I was sent to the VI's to help "sooth" a problem that the Rastas were heavily involved with.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/hawkeye.htm

[LIR]

12:25 AM on 08/20/2007

White heterosexuals, that is...maybe JAH is trying to tell Jamaicans something: that hating "batty boys" will bring the wrath of the wind on you until you mend your hateful ways!
I would like to think that God is all loving, not all hating, like fundamentalists, misguided Jamaicans, and others of that sorry ilk.

[cocksman]

04:28 PM on 08/19/2007

Hey blood-claat Hurricane Dean...don't f**k wid the bumbo-claat "GANJA" fields seen mon.

[shockmagog]

03:59 PM on 08/19/2007

See Storm Chaser Jim Edds' video of Kingston as its citizens cope with Dean's onslaught:
http://broadcast-weather.net/hurricane_dean_jam.html

[shockmagog]

03:46 PM on 08/19/2007

According to the Weather Channel, Dean, at Cat 4 (145 mph, 930 mb), is preparing to graze the southern edge of Jamaica. There will likely be extensive wind damage and flooding coming down from the mountains. The only good news is that the hurricane is moving fairly fast at about 18 mph.

For a quick look at the situation:
http://thestormtrack.com/

[coyote4]

10:34 PM on 08/19/2007

Apollo
(the western sun):
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Our father, who art in heaven;
our mother,
the earth:

We are your creatures...
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[RED NYC]

11:43 PM on 08/19/2007

3 words....

Its
Bushs
fault.

[ExposingCommunists]

02:34 PM on 08/20/2007

Tech Scientist's Idea Could Offset Warming

By John Fleck
Journal Staff Writer
New Mexico Tech scientist Oliver Wingenter believes he has found a way to head off dangerous climate change.
Experiments during the last five years have convinced him and his colleagues that they've found a way to increase cloud cover over Earth's oceans, offsetting some global warming.
"I'm just hoping that this is something that will give us a little more time," Wingenter said in an interview.
But Wingenter said the idea has been a tough sell, and that it has been a struggle to win funding to pursue further research.
The idea is simple. Plankton growing in the ocean emits a gas called dimethyl sulfide, or DMS. DMS, once it gets up into the atmosphere, helps spur cloud formation.
Fertilizing the ocean so more plankton grow could lead to more DMS, Wingenter and a pair of colleagues argue in a paper published last month in the scientific journal Atmospheric Environment. That could lead to cloud formation, cooling the planet and offsetting some of the global warming caused by human-emitted greenhouse gases, they wrote.
The seeds of the idea were planted when Wingenter went to sea for seven weeks in early 2002 to collect atmospheric data as part of a major climate change research experiment.
At the time, DMS and cloud formation were the furthest thing from the scientists' minds. They were trying to see if fertilizing plankton in the planet's southern oceans could slow down global warming in an entirely different way— by coaxing ocean plankton to gobble greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

TOTAL STORY AT:

http:www.abqjournal.com/news/state/587715nm08-20-07.htm

[ExposingCommunists]

02:37 PM on 08/20/2007

SORRY BUT I FORGOT THE //

http://www.abqjournal.com/news/state/587715nm08-20-07.htm