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In reply to Chrissy

Thanks. It start.

In reply to nitro

My inner circle called me to ask how I didn't send dem a notice

Quiet season thus far though, thankfully

In reply to Chrissy

You are slipping Prof.

In reply to nitro

In reply to Curtis
Peak season has started - the next six weeks will be crazy

Dis may be a problem more for JA, Cuba and the Cayman Islands than all others in the Caribbean

In reply to Chrissy

Hope it is nothing strong.

In reply to nitro
The problem for the Northern Caribbean is that if the conditions exist for development, there is nothing but water in between (on this current track) so all we can do is watch and see if it starts to organize itself into Danielle and in the meantime prepare.
Soon get some more water, batteries and will get the old phone ready just in case.

Di good news is dat di female named storms tend to avoid us

In reply to Chrissy

In reply to nitro
Since hurricanes have only been named recently we really don't know the answer to dat. We can say that since they have been named the female named storms either avoided the yard or didn't do that much harm.
Nice read on JA and hurricanes

In reply to Chrissy
Interesting. Port Royal has had its fair share of natural disasters.

I cannot remember Hurricane Gordon in 1994 though.

Gilbert and Ivan will live in infamy.

In reply to nitro
Don't forget Allen in 1980 - took out what was left of the railway in Portland.
This is pretty good

Are you saying after the 60s mi sistah? Wasn't there Flora 7k deaths, Arlene, Beulah, Debra, Cindy, Edith and Helena in the 60s?

Don't be so hard on the nacho hurricanes.

In reply to Chrissy

I was too young to grasp Allen. Just remember water on my veranda but alas I was four or five.

In reply to nitro
Those I will NEVER forget. Gilbert was truly my first hurricane in terms of being able to understand hurricanes. At 13 I was looking forward to my first hurricane. After that hurricanes were scary.
Ivan I remember as it approached some of students sounded like 13 yo me. I told them they would feel differently afterward.
Ivan never slept that night with th howling winds and totally forgetting we had left the hurrican straps on the roof. Really sounded as if we were going to lose the roof

In reply to michaelmax

Same here bro. Gilbert was my first. I was in 5th form then. It was bad, damaged our roof. Ivan took the cake though. I never saw so many adults crying, businesses and houses badly damaged. The sea took all 26 coconut trees on the property. Infact only the willow trees survived Ivan.

I vaguely remember Allen. I know Newmarket, St Bess was flooded around that time and folks from my area kept going there to look at it.

In reply to Scar
The eastern side of the island was flooded from FLora but only 11 people died in Jamaica

In reply to michaelmax
Allen was really bad in Portland, St Mary and parts of St Ann and St Andrew. It was no Ivan let alone Gilbert for the rest of us. And remember Ivan did not hit us directly.

In reply to Chrissy

Can you imagine if Ivan had hit us directly?
There was a little island off the South Coast called Sunny Island. It was visible from Lovers Leap. We used to boat tourists from Treasure Beach to it to snorkle and cook out. Ivan came and it disappeared.

The most frightening thing for me was that the day after Ivan we could not get any information from our relatives in Cayman for almost a week. It was torture.

In reply to Chrissy

Yep that I remember. My mother and I were up waiting waiting since it slowed down. Found out it wobbled and followed the South Coast rather than the direct hit

In reply to nitro
Cayman was devastated. If Ivan took Gilbert’s track we’d still be rebuilding

In reply to michaelmax
I have never seen anything like that last minute change of track. We were really lucky.
Grenada was devastated.

You are all too young to recall the vast islandwide destruction of Hurricane Charlie on Marcus Garvey's birthday, Friday August 17, 1951.

From Portland and St Mary in the east it wreaked havoc in St Games and other western parishes.

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In reply to Ewart

Yep- the truth is that the two really big ones were Charlie and Gilbert.
To understand how young most folks were, last year there was a casual discussion on Irie about hurricanes hitting the island and this female upstart said she 'googled' Charlie and gave us the wrong Charlie. A senior citizen called the station and tore her to shreds.

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In reply to Chrissy

I realize it was a tropical depression that caused the flooding of New Market in 1979, not quite a hurricane.

In reply to Ewart

My mother told me about Charlie. Essentially lost roof etc

In reply to michaelmax
The one behind looks like the bigger problem for the Caribbean and up the line

In reply to Chrissy

On my way to Jamaica Sunday, flying into Montego Bay.

Could be bad weather?

In reply to mikesiva
Don't think so but later in the week

In reply to mikesiva
Don't think so but later in the week

Soon to be Danielle is tking shape. Allyuh pay attention.

Not dis time - this now looks like Turks & Caicos, Cuba, Bahamas and Florida

In reply to Chrissy

Selfish...but great!

In reply to Chrissy

It rained a bit when the plane landed but since then it's been overcast but nice and warm in Montego Bay.

In reply to michaelmax


I think Jamaica had a baby boom after Gilbert!

In reply to mikesiva
Welcome home bro - we'll have rain until THursday but no storms

In reply to XDFIX


Well given that for many it was months before things returned to normal nothing else to do. I remember my community as one of the last to have electricity returned. Remember going and watching those US men on the poles.

In reply to Chrissy

Thanks!

Nuff rain ah fall in Montego Bay now. Flooding ah Freeport. Traffic ah back up along Howard Cooke boulevard.

In reply to mikesiva
The weather folks have been warning about rain and floods until Thursday.