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• From: "Bruno Benjamin" <b.benjamin AT ouragans.com>
• Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 22:27:28 -0400

• From: "Bruno Benjamin" <b.benjamin AT ouragans.com>
• Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:16:40 -0400

• From: "Bruno Benjamin" <b.benjamin AT ouragans.com>
• Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:03:22 -0400

• From: "Robinson" <Robinson.dom AT wanadoo.fr>
• Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 22:26:48 -0400

Martinique, nov 13th 10h30 PM

End of rain since 5h00 PM . Large ans energetic swell on the caribean side, with
waves of 4 meters high... Several damage on the St Pierre and le Prêcheur towns
...  Piers disabled, boats sunk, boats riffled on the beaches, sea water inside
houses.  infrastructures damaged : roads, streets in towns, borders of the sea,
piers. no deads, no wounded people...
we wait on the second part of the night to receive larger waves on the coasts,
with 5 to 7 meters high. Next report at 8h00 AM on nov 14th...

good night
Robinson
Robinson.dom AT wanadoo.fr
"Tout ce qui n'est pas donné est perdu..."

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• From: "Robinson" <Robinson.dom AT wanadoo.fr>
• Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 12:03:20 -0400

from Martinique, nov  17th 12h AM

since yesderday night, the swell is coming highter and longer... several boats
are pushed on the beaches, and the waves come into the houses builded on the
beaches...

since 11h AM the rain become to fall, coming from the west side of the island,
what is an anormal source of winds and clouds...

The people is not used to see theses enormous and black clouds coming from the
caribean sea, with a speed of the wind... at noon, the sunshine is hidden, and
we feel the coming of the hurricane...

next report at 5H00 PM

see yu
Dominique BRUCH, special report

alias
Robinson
Robinson.dom AT wanadoo.fr
"Tout ce qui n'est pas donné est perdu..."

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• From: Olivier <olicool AT ais.mq>
• Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 20:12:39 +0100

Very strange: no winds and no stars on the sky!

I've looking for the last Jose tracks and it seams that he will be near
Martinique in a few
hours.
So I'm waiting but in the dark it's more difficult to see anything !

May be later...

Olivier from Le Vauclin, MARTINIQUE

• From: Olivier <olicool AT ais.mq>
• Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 07:53:29 +0100

My first report here and may be not the last....

A few winds, not much. But I'm sure it's not Jose... Who know ? I'm
scared and I enjoy that I will see for the first time a hurricane!

sorry for my english! Next report in French !

Olivier from LE VAUCLIN, MARTINIQUE

• From: "Robinson" <cabinetbruch AT sasi.fr>
• Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 08:56:40 -0400

so, first tropical wave reached martinica coast yesterday afternoon... a
good and fresh news for the agriculture, in particular for the south part of
the island, touched by a severe dryness (the geatest since 50 years). the
rain was folling during all the afternoon and stopped late in night.

To note some accidents on the traffic, caused by  the slipperies roads wich
was not washed sonce several weeks...

sunday morning, the sunshine is back, but the vegetation does not look like
the day before, with a new color of leaves and a different sing of birds....

Robinson
Schoelcher, Martinica, 6/6/99
cabinetbruch AT sasi.fr