yamba@ihug.com.au (Jan) wrote:
>I have to start getting ready for work, so can't post all the links
>I've found so do a search on Grenada or Caribbean news - sites I've
>found with a bit of news are BBC, spice islander, spice isle, cedra,
>and some other places which escape me right now. Jamaica Observer
>hasn't updated for a while.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WEATHER/09/07/hurricane.ivan.grenada.ap/
>Its howling winds and drenching rains also flooded parts of Venezuela's north coast, and a 32-year-old man died after battering waves engulfed a kiosk.
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>In Tobago, officials reported a 32-year-old pregnant woman died when a 40-foot palm tree fell into her home, pinning her to her bed.
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>A 75-year-old Canadian woman was found drowned in a canal swollen by flood waters in Barbados. Neighbors said the Toronto native, who had lived in Barbados for 30 years, braved the storm to search for her cat.
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>A meteorologist at the Miami center, Hugh Cobb, said that if Ivan hits Jamaica, it could be more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which was only Category 3 when it devastated the island in 1988.
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>Jamaica posted a hurricane warning Thursday morning. Government schools were closed and fishermen advised to pull their skiffs ashore and head for dry land. Haiti's southwest remained on hurricane watch and tropical storm warning. Dominican Republic was under hurricane watch and tropical storm warning for the Barahona peninsula with a tropical storm watch over the southwest coast. Cayman Islands posted a hurricane watch as did Cuba for central and eastern parts of the island.
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>At 5 p.m. EDT, Ivan was centered about 350 miles southeast of Kingston, Jamaica. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 35 miles and tropical storm-force winds another 175 miles. Ivan was moving west-northwest at 15 mph
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