http://go-jamaica.com/blog/2008/09/11/remembering-ivan-september-10-12-2004/ Jamaica Weather Watch - A Gleaner Company Blog Wed, 09 May 2012 21:38:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://go-jamaica.com/blog/2008/09/11/remembering-ivan-september-10-12-2004/comment-page-1/#comment-4202 ESTEBAN AGOSTO REID Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:23:40 +0000 http://go-jamaica.com/blog/?p=375#comment-4202 Yes, I remember Hurricane Ivan very well.My entire roof in Mandeville was blown off and my house looked like a compartmentalized swimming pool.Lost a considerable amount of items, namely: furniture,books,computer,appliances etc.Had to relocate my sick mother to a friends house.Ivan was a monster as far as I am concerned. But I survived and was able to replace my roof and repair the house,and of course move on. Nonetheless,like everyone else in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, whenever a hurricane, or, major tropical storm like Ivan looms, or, is imminent, severe trepidation and anxieties manfiest themselves on my part,and indeed most Jamaicans.Apparently,this psychology may be a constant and an on going one in the Caribbean.Because, we in the Caribbean basin are, supposedly, looking at the severe consequences of global warning and a possible thirty year cycle of intense and destructive hurricanes that/which may even make Ivan relatively tame.Excessive anxiety!!Yes, Indeed!! Yes, I remember Hurricane Ivan very well.My entire roof in Mandeville was blown off and my house looked like a compartmentalized swimming pool.Lost a considerable amount of items, namely: furniture,books,computer,appliances etc.Had to relocate my sick mother to a friends house.Ivan was a monster as far as I am concerned. But I survived and was able to replace my roof and repair the house,and of course move on. Nonetheless,like everyone else in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean, whenever a hurricane, or, major tropical storm like Ivan looms, or, is imminent, severe trepidation and anxieties manfiest themselves on my part,and indeed most Jamaicans.Apparently,this psychology may be a constant and an on going one in the Caribbean.Because, we in the Caribbean basin are, supposedly, looking at the severe consequences of global warning and a possible thirty year cycle of intense and destructive hurricanes that/which may even make Ivan relatively tame.Excessive anxiety!!Yes, Indeed!!

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