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- SxmGIS - Governor Richards calls on community to prepare for 2008 hurricane season
  • From: Roddy Heyliger <roddyheyliger at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 16:10:27 -0700 (PDT)
News Release

 

Written by Roddy Heyliger, Government Information Service (GIS), Dept. Head Erno Labega, Ennia Bldg., Longwall Rd., Philipsburg, St. Maarten D.W.I. Tel. 00-599-543-1162, 542-4119, Fax: 543-1169; Email: gis at sintmaarten.net;

 

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, May 13, 2008/N067

 

Governor Richards calls on community to prepare for 2008 hurricane season

 

GREAT BAY, St. Maarten (GIS) – Governor Franklyn Richards, Chairman of the Island’s Disaster Emergency Management Organization, the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), is calling on the St. Maarten community to start preparing for the 2008 hurricane season and to have those plans in place by June 1st, the beginning of the season.

 

Even though the official start of the season is still two weeks away, Governor Richards is urging residents to use this period to prepare themselves.

 

“The month of May for the Caribbean and the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico, is a period used to prepare for the six-month hurricane season.  It makes no sense to make major preparations days or hours before a hurricane strike. 

 

“Prepare early and avoid being caught unprepared.  Preparedness starts with every one of us within society.  As a community we must plan early and don’t wait until the last moment to rush to get things done because it can result in injury,” Governor Richards told the Government Information Service (GIS) on Tuesday.

 

Some of the preparations that should be done now are the removal of debris from around homes and businesses; checking hurricane shutters and the roof of your home or business to make sure those windows can close securely and there are no weak spots in the roof.

 

Putting together a hurricane disaster kit is also another essential part of preparing early as well as stockpiling non-perishables.

 

The 2008 Hurricane Season name list is: Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal, Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Ike, Josephine, Kyle, Laura, Marco, Nana, Omar, Paloma, Rene, Sally, Teddy, Vicky and Wilfred.

 

The 2008 hurricane season officially starts on June 1 through November 30.

 

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Roddy Heyliger

St. Maarten Government Information Service (GIS)



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- Update
  • From: "Barbara Cannegieter" <barcann at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 18:47:22 -0400
It's not Saharan Dust..not according to this image. The Saharan dust hasn't reached us yet... not much of it anyway.
 
                              
                             
 
So what is it? what is the haze? It is so hazy that we can't even see Anguilla which is always visible.
The entire island looks like this:
 
                                   
 
And you can barely see where the sky and sea meet:
 
                                  
It's not cloudy like it is going to rain.It is haze. Strange!
 
By the way, it is Sea Turtle Nesting Season. St. Maarten Pride Foundation, our local environmental group, sent me some information on it , explaining how people living on the beach side can help.
I think anyone on any of the other islands could help in the same way.
Take a look at my blog where I posted the information.
- Update
  • From: "Barbara Cannegieter" <barcann at megatropic.com>
  • Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 09:19:41 -0400
Yesterday was both May Day ( Labour Day) and Ascension Day. In case you were confused about which to celebrate, St. Maarten gave us all an extra day off today.
I will probably celebrate today the way I celebrated yesterday...by staying home and reading.
 
We were blessed last night though by 1 inch of rain. That is the first measurable rain we have had on the Dutch side of the island in about a month.
 
- Update
  • From: "Barbara Cannegieter" <barcann at megatropic.com>
  • Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:04:49 -0400
The weather was beautiful in St. Maarten today. We couldn't have asked for a better day to hold our Grand Carnival Parade.
I posted some pictures of the Carnival parade.
Please take a look if you want.
 
- Update
  • From: "Barbara Cannegieter" <barcann at hotmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:00:30 -0400
Rain or no rain?
St. Martin/Maarten got both.
MJ from Culebra says there was a St. Martin band of rain that soaked them. Well, that's right...St. Martin!
NOT St. Maarten.
It seems the French side (St. Martin) ( North side) of the island got soaked , while those of us on the Dutch side (St. Maarten) were praying for rain. We got a few drizzles.
And my cistern is dry. We need  the rain badly, but the French got it all yesterday.
That's the tropics for you......a 36 square mile island and it poured on one side of the island and not on the other side.
 
Today is still cloudy but no imminent threats of rain at this point.
 

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