Video of Hurricane Dean from the space station...Category 4+

[Blue_Roses]

http://video.nbc5i.com/player/?id=144899

This sucker is big!

[tammywammy]

1. I saw that this morning

I have family in SE Texas, so I hope it heads towards Mexico like it appears so now. Sorry to all those folks in Mexico.
The Yucatan is gonna get hard too.

[Blue_Roses]

2. I feel for the people in Haiti and of course the Yucatan

Haiti will be destroyed.

[tammywammy]

4. I know

I feel slightly guilty keeping my fingers crossed that it hits Mexico and not Texas, but what can you do. My family went through Rita and that area can't take another big hit yet.

[alfredo]

7. Matamoros appears to be in the cross hairs.

A lot of US jobs moved there.

[RL3AO]

3. Jamaica is going to get the worst of it here in a few days. Don't forget about them or the Caymen

[Blue_Roses]

5. yeah, I worry about Jamaica too...

:scared:

[malaise]

9. It's veering slightly north now

which is good for teh heavy population zones in Jamaica but very bad for our north coast, the northern tip of Haiti and the Southern section of Cuba. Guantanamo Bay could be wiped out in one fell swoop.

[Feron]

6. Such a shame that something so beautiful..

is also so deadly and destructive.

[Kajsa]

8. It is huge- and headed for the Yucatan.

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/index.cgi?page=items&ser=111962&large=1

I don't see an eye in it, yet.

Here's a clip on the formation of Dean.

http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/hurseas2007movies/Dean-compressed.mov


and it's a 4 now, even though the first image states Cat. 3.

[Peregrine Took]

10. There is a wonderful missionary in Jamaica named Fr. Ho Lung - I hope his

mission homes will be able to survive.

[watercolors]

11. I worry about Cozumel

They are just getting over the last one that hit so hard, Wilma. Its our special place to dive, and the reefs are just beginng to clear and recover, this will not be good at all! We have been diving there since 1970's, at least twice a year. Spent our 50th anniversary there, our last trip at Xmas was sad, way too many cruise ships now, we had debated whether we would go back again, maybe mother nature is going to make the call for us. I hate to see it happen.

[malaise]

12. Dean now moving WNW

that's better news for Jamaica, Cayman and the Yucatan but bad news for Southern Cuba, Louisiana and Texas.

[RL3AO]

13. Must see YTMND

http://hurricanedeanpath.ytmnd.com/

[malaise]

14. Beautiful

:rofl:

[tammywammy]

15. That's awesome!

:rofl:

[Blue_Roses]

16. that's great!

:bounce: