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E.T. Phone Home
09.12.04 (12:53 pm)   [edit]
I was able to speak to my Mom and my Aunt in Jamaica yesterday. Both were well and in decent spirits. They considered themselves fortunate in comparison to so many whose homes were flooded and destroyed. Just as Ivan's eye was about 30 miles south of the capital city of Kingston, it suddenly made a western turn and the eye remained south of the island as it moved along. As a result, Jamaica was spared the worst of Ivan's category 4 winds. Nonetheless, at least 11 lives have been lost and policemen have been injured trying to prevent armed men from looting.

This morning I tried to call my Mom and Aunt again and the circuits are busy. I have been trying for almost 7 hours now. The phone lines were not cut by the storm, but as you can imagine, everyone is calling home to check on their loved ones. I will keep trying. When I spoke to Mom lastnight, she and my cousin had spent the night locked up in her bedroom and things were too windy and dangerous for her to pop outside and survey the damage. I'm anxious to know how things are. She mentioned one or two areas leaking but that is nothing compared to my Aunt's neighbors who lost their roof and had a tree fall onto their garage. Not being able to talk to my Mom is the worst part of this.


For more information, go here. They also have some pretty frightening photos here.

Is it just me or do the people at the Weather Channel seem to get off on all this death and destruction? I know it's their job but one reporter's nipples seemed to harden as he described his surroundings (a trailer park that had been hit hard) in Florida. It's like they can't miss an opportunity to scare people and hype up Ivan. Frankly, Ivan doesn't need a bigger ego. Words like monstrous, unrelenting, pounding, pummeling, ravaging, bashing, hammering, ripping, slamming, shredding, eviscerating (yes, someone said eviscerating), smashing, thumping, battering, clobbering, crippling ... Ok, ok...we lived it, we get it.
 


posted by: SASHASMOMMA (reply)
post date: 09.13.04 (9:21 am)

I think what was most upsetting to me were my friends calling me from out of state. Every time they talked to me regarding Frances...they were acting like I was going to die. They were scaring me more than the storm itself!! Media frenzy!!

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