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2005-07-08 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Dennis the Menace now Cat 4, Winds near 150mph
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Posted by Steve 2005-07-08 08:49|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Heard this morning that he's gonna run right over Gitmo. Make sure to tell the boys that Allah's really pissed off...
Posted by tu3031 2005-07-08 09:12||   2005-07-08 09:12|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah shit...

It spared the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, on Cuba's extreme southeast end, holding some 520 terror suspects. A lifeguard tower was torn away by high surf and a bus shelter was destroyed, but there appeared little other damage. U.S. troops on Thursday had fixed metal shutters over the steel mesh windows of some prison cells at Camp Delta, which is just 150 yards from the ocean.

I'm sure they'll be bitching about weather torture in the next few days.
Posted by tu3031 2005-07-08 09:38||   2005-07-08 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 D@mn, that George Bush, he'll stop at nothing, will he?
Posted by Johnny Doogooder (HRW) 2005-07-08 11:03||   2005-07-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

#4 Looks like it might miss the highest elevations :(

CIENFUEGOSA
Posted by Shipman 2005-07-08 12:45||   2005-07-08 12:45|| Front Page Top

#5 It is now a CAT 5 with 185MPH winds.

Holy Crap....
Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-08 14:00||   2005-07-08 14:00|| Front Page Top

#6 May it cool its proverbial jets by the time it gets near our shores.

CAT 5... in July? Yipes!
Posted by eLarson 2005-07-08 14:09|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com]  2005-07-08 14:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Cat 5? Weather service still sez 4:
At 2 PM EDT...1800z...the center of Hurricane Dennis was located near latitude 22.1 north... longitude 80.6 west or near Cienfuegos Cuba. This is also about 125 miles... 205 km...southeast of Havana Cuba and about 190 miles... 300 km...south-southeast of Key West
Florida. While some wobbling has occurred...as is typical of a major Hurricane...Dennis is expected to continue moving toward the northwest near 17 mph...28 km/hr. On this track...the center should emerge off the north-central coast of Cuba this evening.
Reconnaissance aircraft reports indicate maximum sustained winds have decreased to near 145 mph...235 km/hr...with higher gusts.Although Dennis is still a strong category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale...some additional weakening is forecast as Dennis moves over Cuba. However...Dennis is expected to remain a major hurricane as it emerges over The Straits of Florida and the southeastern Gulf of Mexico this evening.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2005-07-08 14:39||   2005-07-08 14:39|| Front Page Top

#8 Gust of 185MPH. Sorry, not sustained winds.
Still,
HOLY CRAP!
Posted by mmurray821 2005-07-08 14:47||   2005-07-08 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 HURRICANE DENNIS TROPICAL CYCLONE UPDATE
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
310 PM EDT FRI JUL 08 2005

REPORTS FROM THE CUBAN METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE AND CIVIL DEFENSE THROUGH HAM RADIO OPERATORS INDICATE A WIND GUST TO 149 MPH OCCURRED AT CIENFUEGOS CUBA AROUND 130 PM EDT. MORE THAN 85 PERCENT OF THE POWERLINES WERE DOWN AND EXTENSIVE DAMAGE HAS OCCURRED TO THE COMMUNICATIONS INFRASTRUCTURE.

My compliments to Haliburton Weather Modification Division - Hurricane Control Branch.
Posted by Steve">Steve  2005-07-08 15:54||   2005-07-08 15:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Huge quantities of destructive hot air - I thought you were talking about Kucinich!
Posted by DMFD 2005-07-08 17:07||   2005-07-08 17:07|| Front Page Top

#11 At least I won't be near this one. Of the 20 worst hurricanes to hit the US I've managed to be in 12 of them. Head this way if you need to Ship.
Lat.36-22.021
Long. 82-38.787
Elev. 1731 feet
Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues  2005-07-08 21:15||   2005-07-08 21:15|| Front Page Top

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