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Tobacco!!! How can you think about Tabacco? I have an unwelcomed guest due at 8pm Wednesday....
Now I'm wearing the Bulls eye!!!! :0
Now I'm wearing the Bulls eye!!!! :0
I feel sorry for those getting hit, but I'm very glad it changed paths. My poor mom has already been hit repeatedly, including being without power for a few days thanks to Frances, so I really wasn't looking forward to her getting hit by a third hurricaine in like 2 weeks.
Allofus123
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:lookup:JonB said:
I'm biting my tongue...... :angry:
As the hurricane's western edge drenched fields in Cuba's Pinar del Rio province, 20-foot-tall waves still were slamming the sea wall at the port in George Town, Grand Cayman.
An Associated Press crew flew over the Cayman Islands Monday, surveying Grand Cayman, where houses had been reduced to piles of plywood. Officials said the airport in George Town was not functioning and planes were being turned away.
The only signs of activity on the ground were animals congregating on higher ground.
Devastation in JamaicaWalter AstradaAssociated Press"The island looks like a war zone," said Diana Uzzell, a business manager on Grand Cayman.
In Cuba, residents said they feared for their lives.
"Last night, the wind blew like it was the end of the world," said Odalys Lorenzo, a community official at a shelter in southwest Cuba.
Cuban state television reported waves up to 15 feet crashing onto the southern coast of the Isla de Juventud southwest of the main island.
Ivan swirled toward cropland that produces Cuba's famed cigars,
a region still recovering from the effects last month of Hurricane Charley. About 1.3 million Cubans were evacuated from particularly vulnerable areas.
Ivan heads for Cuba’s western tipAs the storm drenches Cuba, it was also expected to deliver strong waves, rain and wind to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to the southwest. The island of Cozumel shut its airport, halted the arrival of cruise ships and prohibited all maritime navigation. Visitors to Cancun were advised not to stray from their hotels.
An Associated Press crew flew over the Cayman Islands Monday, surveying Grand Cayman, where houses had been reduced to piles of plywood. Officials said the airport in George Town was not functioning and planes were being turned away.
The only signs of activity on the ground were animals congregating on higher ground.
Devastation in JamaicaWalter AstradaAssociated Press"The island looks like a war zone," said Diana Uzzell, a business manager on Grand Cayman.
In Cuba, residents said they feared for their lives.
"Last night, the wind blew like it was the end of the world," said Odalys Lorenzo, a community official at a shelter in southwest Cuba.
Cuban state television reported waves up to 15 feet crashing onto the southern coast of the Isla de Juventud southwest of the main island.
Ivan swirled toward cropland that produces Cuba's famed cigars,
a region still recovering from the effects last month of Hurricane Charley. About 1.3 million Cubans were evacuated from particularly vulnerable areas.Ivan heads for Cuba’s western tipAs the storm drenches Cuba, it was also expected to deliver strong waves, rain and wind to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula to the southwest. The island of Cozumel shut its airport, halted the arrival of cruise ships and prohibited all maritime navigation. Visitors to Cancun were advised not to stray from their hotels.
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Definitely feel for the Florida brothers once again....
Hopefully, it will weaken but it looks pretty mean right now.
If this thing comes up the coast, we're in big trouble here in Va.! We can't take any more rain and high wind here, ground is saturated as it is.......the trees will start falling like dominoes!!
I'm looking forward to friggin winter personally!
Hopefully, it will weaken but it looks pretty mean right now.
If this thing comes up the coast, we're in big trouble here in Va.! We can't take any more rain and high wind here, ground is saturated as it is.......the trees will start falling like dominoes!!
I'm looking forward to friggin winter personally!
I've been keeping an eye on the hurricanes. That is some bad **** and for it all to happen in one summer?? ?? ??
I heard on the news this morning that the tobacco fields in Cuba are taking an ass kickin' of epic proportions.
It'll be interesting to see the stance our gov't takes on aid to Cuba. Could be the opening that has been needed for the embargo to be lifted. I'm thinking this is an opportunity for Bush to save face and lift the embargo on humanitarian grounds, without getting into it with all of the neysayers. Helping Fidel and his 'evil regime' in the short term, may not make perfect sense, but the long term benefits are too numerous to calculate. Maybe every cloud DOES have a silver lining.
As for you Floridians..........I feel for you. Hang in there.
M. Gipson
I heard on the news this morning that the tobacco fields in Cuba are taking an ass kickin' of epic proportions.
It'll be interesting to see the stance our gov't takes on aid to Cuba. Could be the opening that has been needed for the embargo to be lifted. I'm thinking this is an opportunity for Bush to save face and lift the embargo on humanitarian grounds, without getting into it with all of the neysayers. Helping Fidel and his 'evil regime' in the short term, may not make perfect sense, but the long term benefits are too numerous to calculate. Maybe every cloud DOES have a silver lining.
As for you Floridians..........I feel for you. Hang in there.
M. Gipson
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Looks like Ivan is going to be bringing in Louisiana, Alabama, and Missisissippi into the mix this time... Heck, even Galveston/Houston might get some residual storms. ???
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From CNN:gawntrail said:
Castro reiterated that his island nation would not accept any money from the United States or other countries that "have imposed economic sanctions against Cuba."
"The United States can save itself the hypocrisy of trying to help Cuba out in this situation," he said.
M3,MilesMingusMonk said:
Thanks for the update. I didn't know Castro had taken that stance.
I wonder what the Cuban people think of that. I guess we'll find out after they see that we've rebuilt the other affected nations, and they are still stacking plywood and trying to salvage bricks.
M. Gipson
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Man, there's no rest this season. Jeanne? Let's hope it gets carried east out into the North Atlantic.wam79 said:
Never gonna happen. And thankfully so. Benefits? Yep there are a few. But to lift the embargo on the last pompous, blatant dictatorial regime in the Western hemisphere is completely contrary to our current focus. Call it communist if you want. It's been a dictatorship since the Russian missile fields shut down.gawntrail said: