My friends on Ambergris Caye are taking on the chin again

While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is still
wreaking destruction in Ambergris Caye and Chetumal areas with its inner and
outter bands. This is a huge huge storm. Even Roatan and north Honduras
are feeling it.

Apparently, Cancun and Cozumel will miss major destruction, they are feeling
serious effects from Dean's bands too.

"chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
> While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is still
> wreaking destruction in Ambergris Caye and Chetumal areas with its inner and
> outter bands. This is a huge huge storm. Even Roatan and north Honduras
> are feeling it.
>
> Apparently, Cancun and Cozumel will miss major destruction, they are feeling
> serious effects from Dean's bands too.

The unfortunate reality is that with storms - - especially big nasty
ones such as this - - unless they never make landfall anywhere,
someone's going to be in the path and be impacted.

I see that NOAA has reported Dean's landfall position as 18.79388 N
87.62611 W. This would probably have been in the vicinity of Punta
Chahuay, Mexico and Majahual, Mexico. For positioning, cross
reference the above Long/Lat on Google Maps to these maps:

http://mexicochannel.net/maps/quintanaroo_sct.jpg

http://www.maps-of-mexico.com/quinta...map-main.shtml

This location would have have meant that the eye would have passed
over just the northern end of the Caribbean's largest atoll, Banco
Chinchorro, which sounds like one of those 'yet to be discovered by
Westerners' types of places (unlike Swan Island, which remains
(mostly?) uninhabited...although it too probably got ran over by
Dean).


-hh

On Aug 21, 6:20 am, "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
> While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is still
> wreaking destruction in Ambergris Caye and Chetumal areas with its inner and
> outter bands. This is a huge huge storm. Even Roatan and north Honduras
> are feeling it.
>
> Apparently, Cancun and Cozumel will miss major destruction, they are feeling
> serious effects from Dean's bands too.

Was Roatan badly hit? I'm not seeing it come up in reports.

JF

"JOF" <jofrancis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1187723516.720602.36160@x35g2000prf.googlegro ups.com...
> On Aug 21, 6:20 am, "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
> > While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is
still
> > wreaking destruction in Ambergris Caye and Chetumal areas with its inner
and
> > outter bands. This is a huge huge storm. Even Roatan and north
Honduras
> > are feeling it.
> >
> > Apparently, Cancun and Cozumel will miss major destruction, they are
feeling
> > serious effects from Dean's bands too.
>
> Was Roatan badly hit? I'm not seeing it come up in reports.

No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event
according to you know who.

"-hh" <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> wrote in message
news:1187718154.640790.91180@i13g2000prf.googlegro ups.com...
> "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
> > While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is
still
> > wreaking destruction in Ambergris Caye and Chetumal areas with its inner
and
> > outter bands. This is a huge huge storm. Even Roatan and north
Honduras
> > are feeling it.
> >
> > Apparently, Cancun and Cozumel will miss major destruction, they are
feeling
> > serious effects from Dean's bands too.
>
> The unfortunate reality is that with storms - - especially big nasty
> ones such as this - - unless they never make landfall anywhere,
> someone's going to be in the path and be impacted.
>
> I see that NOAA has reported Dean's landfall position as 18.79388 N
> 87.62611 W. This would probably have been in the vicinity of Punta
> Chahuay, Mexico and Majahual, Mexico. For positioning, cross
> reference the above Long/Lat on Google Maps to these maps:
>
> http://mexicochannel.net/maps/quintanaroo_sct.jpg
>
>
http://www.maps-of-mexico.com/quinta...map-main.shtml
>
> This location would have have meant that the eye would have passed
> over just the northern end of the Caribbean's largest atoll, Banco
> Chinchorro, which sounds like one of those 'yet to be discovered by
> Westerners' types of places (unlike Swan Island, which remains
> (mostly?) uninhabited...although it too probably got ran over by
> Dean).

Reports I'm hearing out of Ambergris Caye, they faired reasonably well,
though lost docks, etc. When I finally got to sleep, the landfall was to be
near Majahual and you say it did land there. Also, at that time, I thought
the eye was going to just scrape the northern edge of Chetumal if at all,
but I gather that it passed right over! I haven't heard any damage reports
yet for Chetumal though. You?

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:11:26 GMT, "chilly" <slarson@shaw.canada>
wrote:

>
>"JOF" <jofrancis@gmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1187723516.720602.36160@x35g2000prf.googlegr oups.com...
>> On Aug 21, 6:20 am, "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
>> > While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is
>still
>> > wreaking destruction in Ambergris Caye and Chetumal areas with its inner
>and
>> > outter bands. This is a huge huge storm. Even Roatan and north
>Honduras
>> > are feeling it.
>> >
>> > Apparently, Cancun and Cozumel will miss major destruction, they are
>feeling
>> > serious effects from Dean's bands too.
>>
>> Was Roatan badly hit? I'm not seeing it come up in reports.
>
>No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event
>according to you know who.

Yeah. I just got an email report a few minutes ago.

JF

On Aug 21, 4:15 pm, "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
> I haven't heard any damage reports
> yet for Chetumal though. You?

Sorry, no. I hadn't really even heard about Chetumal until this
week.


-hh

On Aug 21, 1:42 pm, -hh <recscuba_goo...@huntzinger.com> wrote:

> This location would have have meant that the eye would have passed
> over just the northern end of the Caribbean's largest atoll, Banco
> Chinchorro, which sounds like one of those 'yet to be discovered by
> Westerners' types of places

Banco Chinchorro has nice diving, speaking from experience of having
been there a few years back, and there are plenty of Westerners and
Europeans who go there. There were people from England diving with us
when we were there. But there are no towns per say. The road to get
to our resort was filled with wild horses at times. There is jungle
and then beach. Our resort didn't even have electricity 24 / 7. If
these people got hit hard, I feel for them because there is no real
shelter. They have shacks for the most part.

On Aug 21, 4:11 pm, "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
> No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event
> according to you know who.

Voldemort?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:54:48 -0700, bracuk@axxent.ca wrote:

>On Aug 21, 4:11 pm, "chilly" <slar...@shaw.canada> wrote:
>> No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event
>> according to you know who.
>
>Voldemort?

Hagrid (sp?)

JF