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> From: CMBAc@...
> Date: August 27, 2008 5:41:28 PM EDT
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> Subject: Fwd: [Info.haiti] Hurricane Gustav stalled over Haiti
>
> Before reading news report, please see this note from Pere Ajax I
> received today:
> Dear Claire,
> Thank you so much for your letter. Haiti is very wet with water.
> les cayes is getting water, many it will be flodding soon.
> I do not know very well about la Gonave. I will let you know soon.
>
> I am sorry that Don is not well I will continue to pray for him,
> his was our gardian angel while we were there.
>
> Very faitfully,
>
> pere Ajax
>
>
>
> **************
>
>
> 13 dead as Gustav lashes Haiti, Dominican Republic
> PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) — Tropical Storm Gustav stalled over Haiti on
> Wednesday, lashing the country with heavy rain after striking it
> with hurricane force and killing 13 people.
>
> The US National Hurricane Center warned that Gustav could regain
> hurricane strength on Thursday as it passes between Jamaica and the
> southeastern coast of Cuba, and oil prices rose on fears that the
> storm could strike installations in the Gulf of Mexico.
>
> The US southern coastal state of Louisiana's governor Bobby Jindal
> activated a storm crisis team and vowed to lead advance preparation
> efforts, after the city of New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane
> Katrina in 2005.
>
> The storm was blowing winds of 60 miles per hour (95 kilometers) as
> it stalled over Haiti about 90 miles (150 km) west of Port-au-
> Prince, the hurricane center said in its latest report.
>
> Gustav made landfall in Haiti Tuesday as a Category One hurricane
> -- the lowest on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale.
>
> At least five people died and seven were injured in southeast Haiti
> as roofs flew off houses and electricity pylons were ripped away by
> violent winds, authorities said late Tuesday.
>
> In the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola
> with Haiti, eight people were killed in a mudslide caused by the
> storm. All the victims were members of the same family, and had
> just returned to their home after evacuating two weeks ago,
> believing it safe after Tropical Storm Fay earlier this month,
> officials said.
>
> Fay pummelled the Caribbean and left at least 47 people dead or
> missing, most of them in Haiti. The storm killed 11 more people in
> Florida.
>
> Gustav was expected to drop six to 12 inches of rain over the
> Dominican Republic and Haiti, the NHC said, warning that the rains
> were likely to "produce life threatening flash floods and mud slides."
>
> World oil prices rallied as Gustav remained a threat to US energy
> installations in the Gulf of Mexico despite being downgraded from
> hurricane status, analysts said. (New York's main contract, light
> sweet crude for delivery in October, gained 91 cents to 117.18
> dollars per barrel in electronic deals. London's Brent North Sea
> crude for October won 68 cents to 115.31.)
>
> "Oil markets are keeping a nervous eye on ... Gustav, with
> forecasts showing it may move into the Gulf of Mexico," said David
> Moore, a Sydney-based commodity analyst with Commonwealth Bank of
> Australia.
>
> Looking ahead to the possibility of a hurricane striking the Gulf
> of Mexico this weekend, Shell said in a statement that it had begun
> "evacuating personnel not essential to producing and drilling
> operations in the Gulf."
>
> Around 300 people were to be brought ashore Wednesday, with no
> impact on production, it said.
>
>
>
> Kyn Tolson
>
> Development Director
>
> Haitian Ministries
>
> Diocese of Norwich
>
> 1595 Norwich-New London Turnpike
>
> Uncasville, CT 06382
>
> Office: (860) 848-2237 ext. 206
>
> Cell: (860) 575-8691
>
> kyn@...
>
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