There is a problem in the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribean. I noted the other day the plight of Belize. This is a serious set of circumstances. There has been chronic turbulence over those waters and at those latitudes. Government needs to pay attention. Belize is drenched and people have died there. Evidently, the Florida Keys are experiencing some of the same kind of issues.
The mess in these areas needs relief. The flooding is a symptom of chronic conditions in the Tropics and Subtropics. Just because the Keys belong to the USA doesn't mean that they are exempt from chronic Tropical conditions that disaffect lives. I just think we have to be vigilant and that sometimes gets away from authority when it isn't a state of emergency.
That turbulence in the Caribbean right now may very well culminate into being something soon.
Six Dead as Tropical Storm Fay Lingers in Florida (click title to entry - thank you)
Updated 12:30 AM CDT, Thu, Oct 23, 2008
MIAMI, Florida, August 22, 2008 (ENS) - Floridians wish Fay would just go away, but the stubborn tropical storm that never became a hurricane is still hanging around and making life miserable across the northwestern part of the state....
Haiti storm damage estimated at $1 billion (click here)
Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:59pm EDT
By Joseph Guyler Delva
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The storms that have battered Haiti since August caused nearly $1 billion of damage, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on Wednesday.
"That's a lot for a country of 8 million people and there's been a terrible loss of lives," Zoellick told journalists as he concluded a three-day visit to Haiti. "The devastation is widespread and it makes your eye pop."
The loss is enormous in a poor country whose gross domestic product was estimated at about $11.4 billion last year.
Zoellick urged donors to give more money to help Haiti and compared the scale of the devastation by saying, "Imagine Hurricane Katrina had affected almost the whole country (the United States) and a much poorer country."
Four tropical storms and hurricanes deluged Haiti in August and September, bringing floods that killed more than 800 people....
October 21, 2008
Key West, Florida
Photographer states :: storm water around my apartment
October 23, 2008
0830z
UNISYS Infrared GOES East Satellite (12 hour loop - click here)
