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Jamaica Steels for Hurricane

Dean on collision course with island

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 19, 2007 10:07 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Residents of Jamaica hunkered down today waiting for Hurricane Dean, packing winds as high as 155 mph. Forecasters described the storm that has already claimed as least six lives as "extremely dangerous." It ripped past Haiti and the Dominican Republic yesterday as panicked Jamaican packed supermarkets and tourists mobbed airports to flee Dean.

Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller warned that the country was confronting a national emergency and urged people to head for shelter. "I can't take it," said one woman who remembered Ivan's destruction three years ago. "The storm is bad enough but it's what happens afterwards—there's no light, no water."    

A fisherman pulls his boat out of the water helped by a truck, unseen, to protect it from Hurricane Dean in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Jamaicans headed inland and tourists fled the country as Hurricane Dean headed for a direct hit on the island Sunday after a deadly...
A fisherman pulls his boat out of the water helped by a truck, unseen, to protect it from Hurricane Dean in Kingston, Jamaica, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Jamaicans headed inland and tourists fled the country...   (Associated Press)
east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and about 155 miles south-southwest of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. The storm was moving west-northwest at 18 mph and had maximum sustained winds near 145 mph. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, and about 155 miles south-southwest of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. The storm was moving west-northwest at 18 mph and had maximum sustained winds near 145 mph. (AP Photo/Ramon...   (Associated Press)
Families take refuge at a church for protection from Hurricane Dean in Pedernales some 320kms (200 miles) west of Santo Domingo next to the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.Hurricane Dean, which has claimed six lives, began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf...
Families take refuge at a church for protection from Hurricane Dean in Pedernales some 320kms (200 miles) west of Santo Domingo next to the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007.Hurricane Dean, which...   (Associated Press)
This image provided by NASA taken by crewmembers on the Space Shuttle Endeavour Saturday Aug. 18, 2007 captured this image around 1 p.m. EDT shows a still photo close-up of the eye of Category 4 Hurricane Dean.. At the time the shuttle and International Space Station passed overhead, the...
This image provided by NASA taken by crewmembers on the Space Shuttle Endeavour Saturday Aug. 18, 2007 captured this image around 1 p.m. EDT shows a still photo close-up of the eye of Category 4 Hurricane...   (Associated Press)
Families take refuge in a school for protection from Hurricane Dean in Pedernales some 320kms (200 miles) west of Santo Domingo next to the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean, which has claimed six lives, began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to engulf...
Families take refuge in a school for protection from Hurricane Dean in Pedernales some 320kms (200 miles) west of Santo Domingo next to the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean, which...   (Associated Press)
Families take refuge in a school for protection from the Hurricane Dean in Pedernales some 320kms (200 miles) west of Santo Domingo next to the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean, which has claimed six lives, began sweeping past the Dominican Republic and Haiti and threatened to...
Families take refuge in a school for protection from the Hurricane Dean in Pedernales some 320kms (200 miles) west of Santo Domingo next to the border with Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007. Hurricane Dean,...   (Associated Press)
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