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Scuba Forum / General / August 2007My 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. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 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/quintana-roo-state-mexico/quintana-roo-state-mexic o-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 > > 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 [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > > http://mexicochannel.net/maps/quintanaroo_sct.jpg http://www.maps-of-mexico.com/quintana-roo-state-mexico/quintana-roo-state-mexic o-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? > 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 > 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. > 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 [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > 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 > > 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 [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > 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. >> > While the eye of Dean is slipping slightly above them this time, it is >still [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >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 > No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event > according to you know who. Voldemort? >> No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event >> according to you know who. > >Voldemort? Hagrid (sp?) JF >>> No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event >>> according to you know who. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > JF If I remember correctly it would be Hermione that had all of the information. > >>> No, they just had bands of rain and some winds. An apparent non-event > >>> according to you know who. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > If I remember correctly it would be Hermione that had all of the > information. But she was a girl, and everyone knows they're smarter. JF |
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