Mississippi Recovery and Hurricane Wilma
"Cancun is destroyed" Mexican navy Vice Admiral
Most of the damage on the Yucatan
peninsula concentrated on the tourist city of Cancun. Eyewitnesses said the center
of the city looked as if it had been "trampled by a giant". dpa
"Cancun is destroyed," said Mexican navy Vice Admiral Martin
Fernandez. The homes of at least one million people have been damaged or
destroyed, Governor Feliz Gonzalez of Quintana Roo state said late Saturday.
dpa
Sunday, October 23, 2005
Hurricane Wilma Heads for Florida...
Category 2 or 3 At Landfall on Monday...
A RECORD SEVEN
HITS FOR FLORIDA IN THE PAST 14
MONTHS
Wilma on radar this evening...
Fort Lauderdale and Miami have severe damage to their cities. Extensive damage to high rise buildings...roofs off buildings...and many trees down.
Key West had at least 5 feet of water across the southern portion of the island.
Damage from Wilma sounds extensive early on - initial reports. Reports of major damage to the courthouse in Fort Lauderdale. Numerous mobile homes reported destroyed across Southern Florida.
Monday - late morning
Late morning satellite...HUGE eye on this hurricane. Still 105 mph winds.
YOU WON'T SEE THIS AGAIN
HURRICANE WARNINGS AND WINTER STORM WATCHES ON THE SAME PAGE
WILD AND WICKED WEATHER
CUBA
MAJOR DAMAGE ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE ISLAND
Reports coming in today from portions of Cuba are not encouraging. Havana has SEVERE flooding across the entire city. Water appears to be pretty deep from the photographs I have seen from high rises.
Cancun
blog
Here is the latest from Isla Holbox.
Maria Ros of Ecoaldea Gratitud is a close friend of mine. I have known her for 3 years, since I met her hitchhiking through Peru. She is a courageous Mexican woman out to transform the world. With UN and governmental support, she has been organizing a network of indigenous Mayan ecovillages throughout the Yucatan Peninsula.
She called by cell phone last night to say she had not evacuated but had weathered the storm but that her own ecovillage-in-construction and the nearby
town of Solferino where she had taken refuge were completely destroyed. At that time she was distraught, having been through Hell, and broke down into tears repeatedly. This morning she called again from Valladolid, three hours away from the coast, where there is telephone and some electricity, to say that she had decided to stay in the area to help with relief.
She could go to her family in Mexico City but she chose not to. She only had 200 pesos cash but she has a credit card and can use that to get by, maybe find some paying work to repay it when it comes due.
She says Solferino is wrecked and nothing of the structures they built on the ecoaldea land remains.
Yesterday she went to Chiquila but could only get to the estancia on the South end of town, which is where the shoreline now was, half a kilometer inland from where it had been. [b]She saw one of the ferries upside down on top of a building. Everything in Chiquila was destroyed and it was under water still. [/b]
She says she heard from the Mayor of Holbox, Magrita, that someone had been over
with a boat but that the sea had completely washed over the island. A few buildings were still standing, the mayor said. There are 20 people on a boat there that was shipwrecked and they were still awaiting rescue.
http://stormcarib.com/reports/2005/mexico.shtml
MONDAY AFTERNOON
WILMA GAINS STRENGTH YET AGAIN...
WINDS NOW UP TO 115 MPH - SHE IS GAINING STRENGTH (NOT FORECASTED)
SHE JUST WON'T GIVE IT UP.
Key West Floods - Reuters News
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Wilma
breaks windows out of buildings.
Reuters photograph
Florida hit hard by Wilma - Reuters Photograph
MEANWHILE
Snow in New Hampshire as the weather goes wild - FALL is here.
New Hampshire Snow!!!!! Msport14 Photo from Wunderground.
Msport14 Photo from Wunderground.
Monday Afternoon...
I have never witnessed the number of man-made and natural disasters as I have witnessed over the past few years. I guess since 9/11. It seems like every few months there is another huge catastrophe. The world has been through a lot over the past few year. I hope that 2006 brings a calmer and gentler world. A hurricane season that doesn't bring all of this death and destruction. I know the forecast is already for another bad season - but maybe they will be wrong. Let's all so.
It has been a great adventure down here in Mississippi. I am really glad that I came back out again. I have learned a lot and I have met a lot of very nice people. Living in the Sea Bee has been awesome. It has been like summer camp :) heh.
I do miss home though - there is no place like home. Not that I will stay home very long. I will be on my way to Canada on November 12th. I am hoping to see snow up there. At the rate we are going we might see snow in Paducah before then :P :) :) :) hehe. The first frost is predicted for tomorrow night back home!
I guess Halloween must be close :) cold weather and windy. The leaves are really starting to turn in Illinois and Kentucky. I will return to an explosion of colors, similar to SPRING!
On the Canadian front - the silence is deafening.
----------------------
SHELTER UPDATE FROM DOWN HERE IN BILOXI
There are now 1700 people living here in CAMP SEA-BEE :)
The shelter has 2 meals per day - breakfast and dinner. There are two television sets that have ONE channel :) Everyone has been watching BASEBALL! :)
It has been CHILLY the last two mornings - and should be COLD tomorrow morning! Go figure. Mosquitoes are not bad. I have not been bit but a couple of times.
The ERV I am on served over 500 on Sunday!!!!
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
"FREE AT LAST"
May she rest in peace....Rosa Parks Dies
A True Hero
TUESDAY EVENING...
TEMPERATURES FELL INTO THE UPPER
THIRTIES HERE ALONG THE GULF COAST LAST NIGHT!!!! BRRRR BRRRR BRRRR
A great day here on the coast.
Our ERV team fed over 600 people today! That is a lot of people. I
was located in Bay St Louis RIGHT on the coast and then also in Waveland (which
is also right on the Gulf Coast). Both areas are almost totally destroyed
for several blocks inland. The rest of the area that was not swept away by
the surge was destroyed by the flooding itself. The people are strong
though and they are determined to make it through all of this.
The spirits here are high and people have Halloween decorations out. There are even decorations in areas that people are sleeping in tents.
Happy Halloween - Bay St Louis inland a bit
Bay of St Louis - Coastline - STORM SURGE
damage.
Bay St Louis, Mississippi
Stairs that lead to what was a nice house...Bay St Louis, Mississippi
Another house that is completely washed away by the storm surge...
Old GLORY still flying above the ruins...Bay of St Louis - on the coast
This is me with the MURRAY, KENTUCKY ERV!!!! :) heh - this is the ERV from
my
local area. I was able to drive it this morning in Bay St Louis. We
fed several
hundred people in that town (most right near the coast).
BAY ST LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI - DESTROYED BY HURRICANE
KATRINA. THE MURRAY, KENTUCKY ERV OUT FEEDING THOSE
HIT HARDEST BY THIS HURRICANE.
BAY ST LOUIS -- MANY HOMES TOTALLY DESTROYED BY THE STORM
SURGE.
WAVELAND, MISSISSIPPI
INDESCRIBABLE DAMAGE IN THIS TOWN. HUNDREDS
OF PEOPLE LIVING IN TENTS STILL.
Waveland, Mississippi
Waveland, Mississippi
This is all that remains of one church...Waveland, Mississippi
Another church that was almost destroyed...Waveland, Mississippi
SINCE I HAVE BEEN HERE THE ERV THAT I HAVE BEEN
ON HAS FED OVER 4000 PEOPLE!
BETA MAY BE FORMING IN THE CARIBBEAN...STAY TUNED
Thursday, October 26, 2005
SNOWING IN VERMONT!!!!!! I AM JEALOUS!
Bolton in Vermont :) YOU HAVE TO LOSE THIS! Photos by some of
the easternuswx posters.
FROM FARWESTRNMD on easternuswx this photo!
From Maryland
SNOWY MARYLAND!!!!! I WANT SNOW!
JUST DANG! LOOK AT THOSE FALL COLORS AND THE SNOW IN
MARYLAND! AWESOME PHOTO!
FROST THIS MORNING AT MY HOME IN
PADUCAH...GO FIGURE!
THE SEASON THAT WOULDN'T END...
TROPICAL STORM BETA WILL FORM
TOMORROW...
TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
MIAMI FL 530 PM EDT
WED OCT 26 2005
FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...
RECENT SATELLITE IMAGES AND SURFACE OBSERVATIONS INDICATE THAT A TROPICAL
DEPRESSION COULD BE FORMING IN THE EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA ABOUT 140
MILES EAST OF THE COAST OF COSTA RICA.
IF THIS DEVELOPING TREND CONTINUES ADVISORIES COULD BE INITIATED AT ANY TIME.
HOWEVER...EVEN IF TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION DOES NOT OCCUR...THIS DISTURBANCE
IS EXPECTED TO MOVE SLOWLY TOWARD THE WEST OR NORTHWEST BRINGING TORRENTIAL
RAINS AND SQUALLS TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA...PRIMARILY OVER COSTA
RICA...NICARAGUA AND HONDURAS. THESE RAINS COULD CAUSE LIFE-THREATENING FLASH
FLOODS AND MUDSLIDES.
INTERESTS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS
SYSTEM.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
HERE WE GO AGAIN
TROPICAL STORM BETA FORMS
BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM BETA ADVISORY NUMBER 2
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 AM EDT THU OCT 27 2005
...RECORD 23RD TROPICAL STORM OF SEASON FORMS IN SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA...
...VERY HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED IN PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA...
AT 5 AM EDT...0900Z...THE GOVERNMENT OF COLOMBIA HAS ISSUED A HURRICANE WATCH IN
ADDITION TO THE TROPICAL STORM WARNING ALREADY IN EFFECT FOR THE ISLANDS OF SAN
ANDRES AND PROVIDENCIA.
TROPICAL STORM BETA FORMS IN THE CARIBBEAN
And the beat goes on...
Okay well this is my last day on this disaster. I am ready to go home - I will miss all of this though. I have a feeling a will be lost for a week or so. I am ready to sleep in my own bed though!
How about some more winter photographs???? :)
OCTOBER SNOW IN WEST VIRGINIA!!!!! :) BEAUTIFUL! Photographer
unknown -
COMING THIS WEEKEND :)
The Weather Man :) The movie! Looks like I will be going to the movies this weekend!
The Weather Man - begins October 28th
LAST TWENTY YEARS OF HURRICANE ACTIVITY
(THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THIS YEAR!)
Notice how the waters were cooler and we had much less activity. Now that the waters are warmer - BOOM - an explosion of activity. Add in this year and imagine what that map would look like! Crazy. National Geographic Map.
heh saw this on the internet :) This about sums it up for me!
Thursday Evening....
**BREAKING HARD** BUSH ANNOUNCES NEW SUPREME COURT NOMINEE, I'm not surprised...
GO JUDGE JUDY!
okay turn the page CLICK HERE
See PADUCAH Live View Web-Cam Below
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
LIVE: VIEW
FROM DOWNTOWN PADUCAH
...VIA WEB CAM FROM WPSD NEWS CHANNEL 6
------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------
MAILING ADDRESS
BEAU DODSON
465 Ashcreek Road
Paducah, Kentucky
42001
-
Phone Number
Home 270-554-6715
Cell 270-970-1202
Email beaudodson@hotmail.com
