October 29, 2007
Baitoa, Dominican Republic
Photographer states :: This is a small creek that runs through town, usually 1 foot wide. About 1 ft. of shore has been lost and is threatening the treeline.
October 29, 2007
Baitoa, Dominican Republic
Photographer states :: A small mudslide caused this 30-40 ft. tree to fall on this small shack....amazingly a man, 1 year old and 8 month pregnant woman were sleeping at the time and are all fine....strong little shack!!
The 14th named storm of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season brought dramatic skies to the seafront of Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic.
In pictures: Tropical Storm Noel (click here)
October 30, 2007
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UNISYS Water Vapor GOES East Water Vapor Satellite
Huge. Meanderingly slow. Lacking sufficient water vapor to become volitile quickly. Anti-Cyclonic air masses (it's cyclonic, I was looking at the southern hemisphere at the same time I made this entry. Oops.) are usually attributed to a high pressure system normally, but, the 'miminum' millibars currently are 999. It's extremely sluggish though. If one looks at the entire hemisphere all the vortices are taking on a sluggish movement.
UNISYS Hemispheric Satellite (click here)
CARIBBEAN SEA... ALTHOUGH TROPICAL STORM NOEL IS NOW N OF CUBA THE EFFECTS REMAIN ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CARIBBEAN TONIGHT.
FLASH FLOODING AND MUD SLIDES CONTINUE TO BE CONCERN OVER THE MOUNTAINOUS ISLANDS OF HISPANIOLA.
THESE HEAVY RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE AS E CUBA SHOULD BEGIN TO SEE THE EFFECTS AS THE STORM MOVES WNW.
HEAVY SHOWERS/ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS ARE S OF PUERTO RICO FROM 16N-19N BETWEEN 64W-68W. ELSEWHERE...A SURFACE TROUGH EXTENDS FROM S OF NOEL ACROSS THE CENTRAL CARIBBEAN FROM E CUBA NEAR 19N76W JUST E OF JAMAICA ALONG 15N78W TO 12N82W.
A BROAD UPPER HIGH ASSOCIATED WITH NOEL COVERS MOST OF THE CARIBBEAN W OF 70W. CLUSTERS OF SCATTERED SHOWERS/ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS IN THE GULF OF HONDURAS S OF 19N W OF 83W TO INLAND OVER CENTRAL AMERICA.
Tropical Storm Noel Rains Lash Haiti (click here)
By JONATHAN M. KATZ – 22 hours ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Tropical Storm Noel lashed Haiti with heavy rains early Monday as it moved across the impoverished Caribbean nation, generating fears of flash flooding on deforested hills often blanketed by rows of flimsy shacks.
Noel, the 14th named storm of the Atlantic season, was expected to drop as much as 20 inches of rain on Haiti and the Dominican Republic — which share the island of Hispaniola — before heading on a path east of Cuba toward the Bahamas.
The storm weakened overnight as it encountered Hispaniola's mountainous terrain but still poses a serious threat to Haiti, which is recovering from floods that killed at least 37 and sent more than 4,000 people to shelters earlier this month.
Noel had sustained winds of about 45 mph and is expected to move over or near Haiti's western coast Monday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.
At 8 a.m. EDT, Noel's poorly organized center was located near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, forecasters said....
...Forecasters said Noel, with tropical storm force winds fanning 140 miles from its center, could drop 10 to 20 inches of water on Hispaniola.
Dominican authorities said at least 600 people had been evacuated as the storm touched off landslides, flooded rivers and pushed storm surges onto Santo Domingo's seaside boulevard.
Swollen rivers also forced evacuations in Cabaret, a town north of Port-au-Prince where floods killed at least 23 people earlier this month, said Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti's civil protection agency....
At least 20 killed by storm in Dominican Republic (click here)
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
A tropical storm has killed at least 20 people after triggering major floods in the Dominican Republic.
Another 20 people have been reported missing after Tropical Storm Noel dumped up to 20 inches of rain on the country yesterday.
The storm is now heading of the Bahamas and is also expected to hit Florida in the south-eastern United States.
