Go-Jamaica Weather Watch

Residents of Old Harbour Bay in St. Catherine, which was battered by hurricane Dean last year, are taking no chances with Gustav just off Jamaica’s eastern shores.

In Station and Peter’s Lane, for instance, residents, use their backs, heads, handcarts, bicycles, motorcars, trucks, and motorcycles, were seen removing their personal possessions to safer ground.

So intense was the morning’s activities that Keisha Wilson, a survivor of hurricane Dean, screamed out, “Mi nah tek nuh chance this year because last year not even di clothes pon mi back the storm lef mi wid and so I am taking no chance this time,” Wilson said.

In another section of the  lane, persons were seen battened down what they could, while others resigned themselves to the almost inevitable battering of the storm.

Lilly Daley, a fish vendor, said she was tired of moving from one place to another, because of hurricanes and simply put, wanted to get help to go ‘anyweh else dan yasso’.

Patricia Lewis, parish disaster coordinator, said her team was on high alert and ready to help in whatever way they could. They have been camping at the St. Catherine Parish Council’s office.