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The Official Hurricane Ivan thread...
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WDWScottieBoy
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If this one goes to FL...I'm leaving this darn town in northern IL and heading down to FL to help everyone. I've always loved helping people and want to do my best to keep some safe, and maybe even get myself checked into WDW! :lol: I want to be in a hurricane so bad, not a HUGE one that would endanger me, but just something. Hopefully Ivan steers clear of FL and dissolves in the Gulf somewhere and cause no to very little damage.
JBSLJames
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Last night on the weather channel, some guy made a comment that I found to be, quite honestly, STUPID. He said that Ivan was continuing along a Westward track and that is good news. While I do agree that this is good for Florida, it means that the storm will most likely plunge into the Gulf and hit either Texas or New Orleans - which I think is decidedly BAD NEWS.
I will never watch the Weather Channel again
I will never watch the Weather Channel again
Boo's Mom
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for those that are complaining about this thread, I don't get it. If you don't like the tread, don't look at it. This thread is helpful to those who would like to have a better warning about when and where the hurricane is going to hit. If you could care less about the hurricane, click the X at the top of your screen and close this window out.
626
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Hurricane Ivan devastates Grenada
Three deaths reported; storm heading for JamaicaThe Associated Press
Updated: 12:54 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2004ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan made a direct hit on Grenada with ferocious winds, causing "incalculable damage" and killing at least three people as it collapsed concrete homes into piles of rubble and hurled hundreds of the island's landmark red zinc roofs through the air, officials said Wednesday.
The most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in 14 years reportedly devastated Grenada's capital, St. George's, officials said Wednesday, and also damaged homes in Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. Thousands were without water, electricity and telephone services Wednesday just days after Hurricane Frances rampaged through.
The Caribbean Hurricane Network Web site said eye-witnesses on the ground in Grenada had reported seeing scenes of total devastation, with homes either leveled or submerged by water and few trees left standing. Many houses in St. David's are flattened, the Web site said, and the storm has reportedly blown off the roof off the catholic cathedral in St. George’s.
Ivan strengthened even as it was over Grenada on Tuesday, becoming a Category 4 storm and got even stronger as it headed across the Caribbean Sea, passing north of the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.
It is threatening to cross right over Jamaica by Friday morning or Saturday, and then Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Wednesday.
Then "it's probably going to hit somewhere in the U.S. unfortunately," Jennifer Pralgo, a meteorologist at the center, said Wednesday. "We're hoping it's not Florida again ..."
Another meteorologist there, Hugh Cobb, said Ivan terrorized Grenada for some two hours. "They took a really bad beating," he said, warning "Whoever gets this, it's going to be bad."
Howling winds raged through the hilly streets of St. George's, Grenada's capital, trashing concrete homes, uprooting trees and utility poles, and knocking out telephone service and electricity.
The islands were cut off and transmission was halted from the Grenada Broadcast Network.
Several hundred people had been evacuated from low-lying areas of St. George's. ChevronTexaco said it evacuated nonessential staff from a natural gas well off Venezuela's Atlantic coast. Venezuela's government put the South American country's north coast on hurricane watch Tuesday night.
Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell said his home has been flattened, Trinidadian leader Patrick Manning told reporters after a telephone conversation Tuesday night. Manning said Mitchell asked for help and promised to send Eastern Caribbean $10 million (U.S. $3.7 million) in food and other aid.
Three deaths reported in Grenada
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency based in Barbados said Wednesday there were three deaths in Grenada, but that it had no details since it lost contact with Grenadian emergency officials Tuesday night.
Grenada's airport also was damaged and an air charter company in Barbados said it was refused permission to fly in.
St. George's "suffered incalculable damage" and Grenada's emergency disaster office, at the 19th century Great House at Mount Wheldale, was destroyed, the Barbados disaster agency said. It was sending a relief team to Grenada and expected help from the British naval patrol boat HMS Richmond, currently deployed in the Caribbean.
St. George's main hospital also was damaged, the agency said, as were some shelters. "The population in public shelters is 1,000 and climbing," it said.
Two private boats near Grenada have sent out distress signals, the U.S. Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reported, but had no details. It said it was considering doing fly-overs to assess damage in Grenada.
No news could be had from other islands in Grenada, which has about 100,000 residents, best known for its spices and a 1983 U.S. invasion following a left-wing palace coup.
There were unconfirmed reports that storm damage allowed prisoners to escape Grenada's crumbling and overcrowded 17th century prison, a zinc-roofed stone edifice on a hilltop. For more than 20 years the prison has held former Deputy Prime Minister
Winds at 140 mph recorded
Ivan's sustained winds were clocked at 120 mph (193 kph) as it raced through the Windward Islands. But it strengthened to 140 mph (220 kph) with higher gusts.
Cobb said Ivan would be the first Category 4 storm to hit Caribbean islands since Hurricane Luis in 1990.
He said that if Ivan hit Jamaica, it could be more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which was only Category 3 when it devastated the island in 1988.
Cobb said Ivan's heaviest rains, concentrated in its eastern sector, likely will sweep the southern peninsula of Haiti, where deforestation and shacks make any excessive rain a deadly force.
Heavy rains in May triggered floods that killed some 1,700 people and left 1,600 missing and presumed dead in Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic. Haiti posted a hurricane watch for its southwest peninsula Wednesday.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), Hurricane Ivan was centered about 145 miles (235 kilometers) east-northeast of Bonaire. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) and tropical storm-force winds another 160 miles (260 kilometers). The storm riled up battering waves that the Hurricane Center warned could cause storm flooding of 3-5 feet (1-1.5 meters) and above normal tides with 5-7 inches (13-18 centimeters) of rain that could cause flash floods and mudslides.
Ivan is moving to the west-northwest near 16 mph (26 kph).
221 Barbados homes damaged
Earlier Tuesday, Ivan damaged 221 homes in Barbados and left many residents without water and electricity, the Caribbean disaster agency said. It had reports of one death in Barbados, but could not confirm it was hurricane-related. Power was being restored on the island Wednesday.
In neighboring St. Vincent and the Grenadines, more than 1,000 people are in shelters, 19 homes were destroyed when storm surges inundated coastal areas and another 40 homes were damaged, the agency reported. It said the country remained without electricity Wednesday.
Half a dozen houses in St. Lucia and two schools in Tobago lost their roofs. Airports, schools, government offices and most private businesses were closed on affected islands.
Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao were under hurricane warning, a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning remained posted for Colombia's Guajira peninsula and Venezuela's northern coast, and a tropical storm watch covered the southwest coast of the Dominican Republic.
Ivan became the fourth major hurricane of the season on Sunday, coming hard on the heels of Hurricane Frances, which killed at least two people in the Bahamas and 14 in the U.S. states of Florida and Georgia.
Three deaths reported; storm heading for JamaicaThe Associated Press
Updated: 12:54 p.m. ET Sept. 8, 2004ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - Hurricane Ivan made a direct hit on Grenada with ferocious winds, causing "incalculable damage" and killing at least three people as it collapsed concrete homes into piles of rubble and hurled hundreds of the island's landmark red zinc roofs through the air, officials said Wednesday.
The most powerful storm to hit the Caribbean in 14 years reportedly devastated Grenada's capital, St. George's, officials said Wednesday, and also damaged homes in Barbados, St. Lucia and St. Vincent. Thousands were without water, electricity and telephone services Wednesday just days after Hurricane Frances rampaged through.
The Caribbean Hurricane Network Web site said eye-witnesses on the ground in Grenada had reported seeing scenes of total devastation, with homes either leveled or submerged by water and few trees left standing. Many houses in St. David's are flattened, the Web site said, and the storm has reportedly blown off the roof off the catholic cathedral in St. George’s.
Ivan strengthened even as it was over Grenada on Tuesday, becoming a Category 4 storm and got even stronger as it headed across the Caribbean Sea, passing north of the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao.
It is threatening to cross right over Jamaica by Friday morning or Saturday, and then Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Wednesday.
Then "it's probably going to hit somewhere in the U.S. unfortunately," Jennifer Pralgo, a meteorologist at the center, said Wednesday. "We're hoping it's not Florida again ..."
Another meteorologist there, Hugh Cobb, said Ivan terrorized Grenada for some two hours. "They took a really bad beating," he said, warning "Whoever gets this, it's going to be bad."
Howling winds raged through the hilly streets of St. George's, Grenada's capital, trashing concrete homes, uprooting trees and utility poles, and knocking out telephone service and electricity.
The islands were cut off and transmission was halted from the Grenada Broadcast Network.
Several hundred people had been evacuated from low-lying areas of St. George's. ChevronTexaco said it evacuated nonessential staff from a natural gas well off Venezuela's Atlantic coast. Venezuela's government put the South American country's north coast on hurricane watch Tuesday night.
Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell said his home has been flattened, Trinidadian leader Patrick Manning told reporters after a telephone conversation Tuesday night. Manning said Mitchell asked for help and promised to send Eastern Caribbean $10 million (U.S. $3.7 million) in food and other aid.
Three deaths reported in Grenada
The Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency based in Barbados said Wednesday there were three deaths in Grenada, but that it had no details since it lost contact with Grenadian emergency officials Tuesday night.
Grenada's airport also was damaged and an air charter company in Barbados said it was refused permission to fly in.
St. George's "suffered incalculable damage" and Grenada's emergency disaster office, at the 19th century Great House at Mount Wheldale, was destroyed, the Barbados disaster agency said. It was sending a relief team to Grenada and expected help from the British naval patrol boat HMS Richmond, currently deployed in the Caribbean.
St. George's main hospital also was damaged, the agency said, as were some shelters. "The population in public shelters is 1,000 and climbing," it said.
Two private boats near Grenada have sent out distress signals, the U.S. Coast Guard in San Juan, Puerto Rico, reported, but had no details. It said it was considering doing fly-overs to assess damage in Grenada.
No news could be had from other islands in Grenada, which has about 100,000 residents, best known for its spices and a 1983 U.S. invasion following a left-wing palace coup.
There were unconfirmed reports that storm damage allowed prisoners to escape Grenada's crumbling and overcrowded 17th century prison, a zinc-roofed stone edifice on a hilltop. For more than 20 years the prison has held former Deputy Prime Minister
Winds at 140 mph recorded
Ivan's sustained winds were clocked at 120 mph (193 kph) as it raced through the Windward Islands. But it strengthened to 140 mph (220 kph) with higher gusts.
Cobb said Ivan would be the first Category 4 storm to hit Caribbean islands since Hurricane Luis in 1990.
He said that if Ivan hit Jamaica, it could be more destructive than Hurricane Gilbert, which was only Category 3 when it devastated the island in 1988.
Cobb said Ivan's heaviest rains, concentrated in its eastern sector, likely will sweep the southern peninsula of Haiti, where deforestation and shacks make any excessive rain a deadly force.
Heavy rains in May triggered floods that killed some 1,700 people and left 1,600 missing and presumed dead in Haiti and neighboring Dominican Republic. Haiti posted a hurricane watch for its southwest peninsula Wednesday.
At 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), Hurricane Ivan was centered about 145 miles (235 kilometers) east-northeast of Bonaire. Hurricane-force winds extended up to 70 miles (110 kilometers) and tropical storm-force winds another 160 miles (260 kilometers). The storm riled up battering waves that the Hurricane Center warned could cause storm flooding of 3-5 feet (1-1.5 meters) and above normal tides with 5-7 inches (13-18 centimeters) of rain that could cause flash floods and mudslides.
Ivan is moving to the west-northwest near 16 mph (26 kph).
221 Barbados homes damaged
Earlier Tuesday, Ivan damaged 221 homes in Barbados and left many residents without water and electricity, the Caribbean disaster agency said. It had reports of one death in Barbados, but could not confirm it was hurricane-related. Power was being restored on the island Wednesday.
In neighboring St. Vincent and the Grenadines, more than 1,000 people are in shelters, 19 homes were destroyed when storm surges inundated coastal areas and another 40 homes were damaged, the agency reported. It said the country remained without electricity Wednesday.
Half a dozen houses in St. Lucia and two schools in Tobago lost their roofs. Airports, schools, government offices and most private businesses were closed on affected islands.
Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao were under hurricane warning, a hurricane watch and a tropical storm warning remained posted for Colombia's Guajira peninsula and Venezuela's northern coast, and a tropical storm watch covered the southwest coast of the Dominican Republic.
Ivan became the fourth major hurricane of the season on Sunday, coming hard on the heels of Hurricane Frances, which killed at least two people in the Bahamas and 14 in the U.S. states of Florida and Georgia.
Tim G
Well-Known Member
Update: Hurricane Ivan
Meteorologists think, this path could have the same outcome as Charley
<TABLE borderColor=#000000 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="98%" border=1><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ff0000><TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=large>STORM STATUS</TD><TD class=small align=right>September 8, 4:34 PM EDT</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="95%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2>Name: Hurricane Ivan</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small vAlign=top>Location: About 95 miles, 150 km, north-northeast of bonaire and 685 miles, 1100 km, East-Southeast of Kingston Jamaica.
Lat/Long: 13.4N, 67.7W
Max Winds: 140 mph
Category: 4
</TD><TD class=small vAlign=top noWrap>Heading: West-Northwest
Speed: 17 mph
Pressure: 27.96 inches
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Meteorologists think, this path could have the same outcome as Charley
<TABLE borderColor=#000000 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="98%" border=1><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ff0000><TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=large>STORM STATUS</TD><TD class=small align=right>September 8, 4:34 PM EDT</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="95%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2>Name: Hurricane Ivan</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small vAlign=top>Location: About 95 miles, 150 km, north-northeast of bonaire and 685 miles, 1100 km, East-Southeast of Kingston Jamaica.
Lat/Long: 13.4N, 67.7W
Max Winds: 140 mph
Category: 4
</TD><TD class=small vAlign=top noWrap>Heading: West-Northwest
Speed: 17 mph
Pressure: 27.96 inches
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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General Grizz
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Joy. :brick: 
stingrock23
Active Member
My sister is at the U of Miami. She actually stayed put through Frances, never lost power, and didn't have to deal with the traffic situation. Maybe some of those who left should have stayed also. I hope it doesn't hit you guys in FLA again, but if it comes directly to New Orleans, the city is screwed. There's no way it could withstand a storm like that.
Mary Poppins
Member
1. I don't care.Corrus said:You!
Leaving Florida
- Where to...
- Why
- When
Greetz!
2. I can't do this again
3. As soon as it really becomes a threat.
I was born and raised in Florida. I've been at WDW for ten years. This just might be a sign that it's time to go. :lookaroun
speck76
Well-Known Member
Tim G
Well-Known Member
Update: Hurricane Ivan
And Yet...
<TABLE borderColor=#000000 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="98%" border=1><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ff0000><TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=large>STORM STATUS</TD><TD class=small align=right>September 8, 7:38 PM EDT</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="95%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2>Name: Hurricane Ivan</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small vAlign=top>Location: About 95 miles, 150 km, north-northeast of curacao and 640 miles, 1030 km, East-Southeast of Kingston Jamaica.
Lat/Long: 13.4N, 68.4W
Max Winds: 145 mph
Category: 4
</TD><TD class=small vAlign=top noWrap>Heading: West-Northwest
Speed: 17 mph
Pressure: 27.70 inches
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small align=middle colSpan=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
And Yet...
<TABLE borderColor=#000000 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="98%" border=1><TBODY><TR><TD bgColor=#ff0000><TABLE width="100%"><TBODY><TR><TD class=large>STORM STATUS</TD><TD class=small align=right>September 8, 7:38 PM EDT</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD bgColor=#cccccc><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width="95%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD colSpan=2>Name: Hurricane Ivan</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small vAlign=top>Location: About 95 miles, 150 km, north-northeast of curacao and 640 miles, 1030 km, East-Southeast of Kingston Jamaica.
Lat/Long: 13.4N, 68.4W
Max Winds: 145 mph
Category: 4
</TD><TD class=small vAlign=top noWrap>Heading: West-Northwest
Speed: 17 mph
Pressure: 27.70 inches
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=small align=middle colSpan=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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DDuckFan130
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speck76 said:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
NitroStitch
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Count me in for the Key West idea! Which Tampa forecaster?TomDisney said:
HinunterZuNich
New Member
From the most recent radar I have seen, it seems as though it hill head west of Florida but most likely provide some wind/rain? While this is good for Florida, I hope nothing bad happens to Texas and states in that area.