Bronco_Beerslug
07-07-2005, 06:27 AM
Predicted to hit Mississippi and Alabama right now. They also think that it's going to keep intensifying as it moves towards us.
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Hurricane Dennis Steams Toward Jamaica
By LEONARDO ALDRIDGE, Associated Press Writer 25 minutes ago
LES CAYES, Haiti - Hurricane Dennis dumped heavy rain on Haiti and strengthened Thursday as it spun toward Jamaica. Hurricane warnings also were posted in Cuba, including at the
U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, and forecasters said the storm could strike the United States anywhere from Florida to Louisiana.
Rivers burst out of their banks in dangerously deforested Haiti, where gusts uprooted a palm tree and flung it into a mud hut, injuring two people who were hospitalized in southern Les Cayes town.
Dennis, which reached hurricane status Wednesday, grew into a Category 2 hurricane and was on track to hit Jamaica later Thursday, forecasters said.
It was the second storm to threaten petroleum output in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall late Tuesday in Louisiana and hindered oil production and refining. Traders said uncertainty over both storms helped to push oil prices to new highs.
By Thursday morning, Dennis's sustained wind reached nearly 105 mph with higher gusts, the U.S.
National Weather Service said. The storm, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, could dump 20 inches of rain over mountains in its path, including Jamaica's coffee-producing Blue Mountains, forecasters said.
Tropical storm force winds from Dennis's outer bands reached eastern Jamaica. "Regardless of landfall, Jamaica will have impacts ... practically all day and into the evening hours," warned forecaster Dave Roberts of the
National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Last year, hurricanes Frances, Ivan and Jeanne tore through the Caribbean with a collective ferocity not seen in many years, causing hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in damages.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050707/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/hurricane_dennis_6
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Hurricane Dennis Steams Toward Jamaica
By LEONARDO ALDRIDGE, Associated Press Writer 25 minutes ago
LES CAYES, Haiti - Hurricane Dennis dumped heavy rain on Haiti and strengthened Thursday as it spun toward Jamaica. Hurricane warnings also were posted in Cuba, including at the
U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, and forecasters said the storm could strike the United States anywhere from Florida to Louisiana.
Rivers burst out of their banks in dangerously deforested Haiti, where gusts uprooted a palm tree and flung it into a mud hut, injuring two people who were hospitalized in southern Les Cayes town.
Dennis, which reached hurricane status Wednesday, grew into a Category 2 hurricane and was on track to hit Jamaica later Thursday, forecasters said.
It was the second storm to threaten petroleum output in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical Storm Cindy made landfall late Tuesday in Louisiana and hindered oil production and refining. Traders said uncertainty over both storms helped to push oil prices to new highs.
By Thursday morning, Dennis's sustained wind reached nearly 105 mph with higher gusts, the U.S.
National Weather Service said. The storm, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, could dump 20 inches of rain over mountains in its path, including Jamaica's coffee-producing Blue Mountains, forecasters said.
Tropical storm force winds from Dennis's outer bands reached eastern Jamaica. "Regardless of landfall, Jamaica will have impacts ... practically all day and into the evening hours," warned forecaster Dave Roberts of the
National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Last year, hurricanes Frances, Ivan and Jeanne tore through the Caribbean with a collective ferocity not seen in many years, causing hundreds of deaths and billions of dollars in damages.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050707/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/hurricane_dennis_6