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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By jon sciarrino on Monday, February 26, 2001 - 3:26 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

i thought that the abc island dont get hit by
Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Tropical Cyclones

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Niki Harris on Monday, February 26, 2001 - 3:40 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Hurricane Lenny didn't pass over the ABCs, but it set off an unusual wave pattern that travelled across the water, and struck the lee side of the island with destructive force.

 

Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Linda Richter - NetTech on Monday, February 26, 2001 - 3:42 pm:     Edit PostPrint Post

Actually, we didn't get hit by Lenny itself. What we got hit with was the extreme wind reversal and underwater wave movement that Lenny passing west to east north of us caused. Normal movement for a hurricane in the mid-Caribbean is east to west and south to north. Lenny went east and south for a couple days. The terrific energy translated into a total reverse of normal wind and current patterns. Yet all other weather was normal - bright sunshine, little puffy clouds, no rain at all. People did not know anything was happening, unless you lived by the western coast or traveled by it.

Aruba and Curacao all got hit by the same wind and waves. I don't remember which island on the windward side got smacked from the other side. Although our sister islands of the Netherlands Antilles got hit by Lenny itself.

 


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