Sunday, October 20, 2024
A NUMBER of residents in Inagua asked for help in being evacuated with Hurricane Oscar having now made landfall on the island.
According to island administrator Herman Gilbert, calls started coming in at about 7-8am this morning from people whose homes were compromised by broken windows or flooding.
A fence by the window at the airport was also down, while there were about 16 people at the shelter with the number growing.
The administrator plans to give an official update to the Disaster Risk Management Authority this morning.
A Hurricane Warning remains in effect for the islands of Mayaguana, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay, Ragged Island and Inagua.
A statement by the Department of Meteorology said that residents in those islands should already have completed preparations for possible hurricane or strong tropical storm conditions.
Residents in Inagua will have experienced hurricane force winds this morning until about 10am and are expected to experience tropical storm winds through until about 2pm today. Heavy showers and thunderstorms are also expected with possible tornadic activity.
Residents in Mayaguana, Crooked Island and Acklins are also expected to experience heavy showers and thunderstorms with possible tornadic activity.
Roof damage in Inagua.
Comments
ThisIsOurs says...
How much rain did Oscar bring? how far did persons experiencing flooding live from the lake, how many houses are there, were they near shore, are they in a depression, do they normally experience flooding in heavy rain, did water come into the house or did the yards flood with concern that it could get worse?
"*fence by the window at the airport was also down*"
So in general, "minor" damage from a *thank goodness it was barely cat-1* storm
Posted 20 October 2024, 12:06 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
One of the things that Debbie Deal did after Dorian that was in fact transformative, she did not detail "damage". She took pictures and picture by picture she documented why the damage happened. We would fare far better if we took that approach as opposed to spending money on branded jackets to appear serious
Posted 20 October 2024, 6 p.m. Suggest removal
Porcupine says...
And, perhaps make sure all islands have adequate hurricane shelters before the government spends millions of dollars flying around this country for photo ops and contracts for clinics that never get finished.
We are a country of nearly 400,000 people, about the size of Miami.
Anyone know who the mayor of Miami is?
Get my point? Sit small PLP politicians and fix the problems in front of your noses.
Posted 20 October 2024, 7:42 p.m. Suggest removal
ThisIsOurs says...
True but even if an island has as little as 1000 people a shelter built for 200 wont suffice. We need to distinguish between damage by a hurricane and damage simply due to our poor *disaster waiting to happen* decisions. Like why has the Sunshine group not been made to relocate all of Pinewood? If God forbid one day 100 people die from electrocution during a storm in that swamp what will we say? *Wow, what a bad hurricane*, *climate change* or *noone should have been allowed to sell that property for residential developmemt*
Posted 20 October 2024, 11:35 p.m. Suggest removal
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