A day later, on August 16, Royal Dutch Shell evacuated 275 ancillary staff, following an evacuation of 188 due to Tropical Storm Erin. On August 11, 2007, a tropical wave moved off the west coast of Africa, and, encountering favorable conditions, quickly developed into Tropical Depression Four, about 520 miles (835 km) west-southwest of Cape Verde on August 13. 1 of 8 This NOAA satellite image taken Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2007 at 10:15 a.m. EDT shows Hurricane Dean. With emergency supplies at hand, the state of Yucatán, Quintana Roo's neighbor to the northwest, declared a green alert. At this point there seems to be no extensive flooding. Kanantik Reef and Jungle Resort in Belize (http://www.kanantik.com) is pleased to announce that the back to back hurricanes of Dean and Felix will cause no disruptions to the upcoming peak tourist season. We started getting gusts of winds from 7:00 p.m. and it kept increasing in intensity every half and hour or so. It finally reached tropical storm status at 1200 UTC August 14 while located about 1250 miles east of Barbados. This reduction reduced the worldwide production of oil and natural gas by 2.65 million barrels and 2.6 million cubic feet per day, respectively. Hurricane Wilma is the most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded in terms of pressure: It was at 882 millibars when it was in the Caribbean before it weakened ahead of landfall in the Yucatan. Hurricane Dean strengthened into a monstrous Category 5 storm Monday night as its outter bands of wind and rain slammed the coasts of Mexico and Belize. Regardless of what track is saying, it is important for people to continue to activate their hurricane family plan. The Eastern North Pacific hurricane season runs from May 15th through November 30th. Dean's remnants produced 0.58 inches of rain in Las Vegas, which was a daily record. As Dean crossed the Yucatan Peninsula, it weakened considerably, and it emerged into the Bay of Campeche around 1900 UTC that day. Over 11 years ago I moved from Manhattan, NYC to San Pedro, Belize. Jorge Aldana � Centaur Cable Network � Corozal Town. Nearby Guadaloupe also received €400,000,000 in damage. Dean made its first landfall along the Yucatan Peninsula near Chetumal, as a Category 5, becoming the first Atlantic storm to make landfall at that intensity since Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Help has begun to arrive hope is alive. It was replaced with Dorian for the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. Some residents refused to leave their homes whilst others were taken to the San Pedro Roman Catholic School hurricane shelter. When it reached the coast of Belize, known at the time as British Honduras, it was a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 140 miles per hour and gusts reaching 180 mph. As the inner eyewall of the hurricane deteriorated over the next 12 hours, Dean's winds decreased from 165 mph to 140 mph. When Dean made its second Mexican landfall along the coast of Veracruz, it overflowed two rivers in the mountains of the state of Hidalgo. We did receive damage to our dock, as did many people but Rico�s and the rest of our Villas have been up and running since Wednesday. Dean's remnant circulation, after lingering off the Pacific coast of Mexico, moved inland near Santa Barbara, California on the morning of August 26, with the remnants crossing the Mojave Desert on the morning of August 27. Dean produced a power outage on the island, but other than that, impacts from the hurricane in Grand Cayman, and the Cayman Islands as a whole, were minimal. On Monday, Hurricane Dean, already a Category 5 storm began lashing Mexico�s Caribbean coast, with winds and rain that hit beach resorts. Spent the hurricane at his family�s home in Corozal � Corozal had the worst of the hurricane, the wind started around 6:00 p.m. on Monday evening, then it came stronger and stronger, around mid night, we got lots of rain! Its maximum sustained winds were 165 mph and gusts reached 200 mph. San Pedro is getting back on its feet and ready to go. So we are okay. Tourists were forbidden from leaving the island, and extra flights were added to evacuate the ones that were already there. Fox News senior meteorologist Janice Dean has your FoxCast. Hurricane Dean was the fourth named storm, first hurricane, and first major hurricane of the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season. It was horrible, the wind was deafening. The main airport on the island of Martinique, as well as both commercial airports on St. Lucia, closed when the airplanes landed on the night of August 16, at which time Dean's outer bands began to move across the island. Prior to the hurricane, the state of Texas experienced significant flooding from several June and July storms. Shortly thereafter, infrared satellite imagery began to indicate that Dean was developing an eye, and by early morning on August 16, Dean became a hurricane, the first of the 2007 season while located about 480 miles east of Barbados. At 1200 UTC that day, Dean's minimum central pressure was at 923 mb. � Spent the hurricane at the Boca del Rio Area with her seven children, ages 17, 15, 14, 12, 8, 5, 3. The whole street was completely flooded, at points up to five feet high. More than a half of the villages were destroyed as much as up to 75% � over 35,000 acres of sugar cane was destroyed while the Papaya Industry received 100% total damage. During this period of rapid intensification, Dean's foward speed slowed to about 15 knots; nevertheless, its heading remained west-northwest throughout its journey through the Carribean, due to a strong ridge of high pressure north of the hurricane that persisted through most of the cyclone's life. Corozal residents are now picking up the pieces of their homes and starting anew to recover from the hit. Total damage to the agricultural industry on St. Lucia reached $13.2 million EC, bringing the damage total on the island to $17.3 million EC. Only about ten houses were left standing. Curfews were put into place on parts of the island, while off-duty essential personnel were called back to work. The Texas fuel industry began surging fuel loads to coastal counties to ensure adequate fuel in the event of the hurricane causing a disruption to the fuel distribution system. The eye of the storm made landfall near Majahual, a port popular with cruise liners and about 40 miles east-northeast of Chetumal and the Belize border, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. https://archive.is/20131014011913/img156.imageshack.us/img156/1434/dean2xp9.jpg, https://weather.fandom.com/wiki/Hurricane_Dean_(2007)?oldid=7936, Windward Islands, Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua. There are no tropical cyclones in the Central North Pacific at this time. In Dominica, tourists were evacuated to concrete shelters and foreign medical students from the Ross University School of Medicine evacuated the island entirely. Dean indirectly killed three people on the island. Hurricane Janet, September 28, 1955, Northern Belize, 165 mph, 16 deaths in Belize Hurricane Hattie, October 31, 1961, Belize City, 140 mph, estimated 225-310 deaths in Belize Hurricane Carmen, September 2, 1974, skirted Northern Belize, 120 mph Hurricane Mitch, October 27, 1998, skirted Belize to the south, 155 mph The lowest pressure ever recorded in a tropical cyclone was 870 millibars in Typhoon Tip in the northwest Pacific Ocean in 1979. The Ministry of Education reported that 11 schools had sustained a combined total of $300,000 EC in damage, with nationwide damage to housing and buildings totaling to $800,000 EC. On Sunday, August 19th, NEMO advised the public that effective 3:00 p.m. a Hurricane Watch was issued from Belize City to Corozal, while a Tropical Storm Watch was issued for the rest of the country. By the morning of August 17, winds as high as 90 mph occured, which uprooted trees, downed power lines, disabled bridges, caused landslides, as well as caused damage to several roofs. When we returned home we found all our stuff wet and as the water went down, the smell was horrible. In Belize, the government evacuated Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye, both major parts of Belize�s tourism industry and urged people to leave low-lying areas. On August 15, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) dispatched crews to Barbados, Dominica, and St. Kitts in advance of the hurricane to provide damage assessment should the storm affect those islands. Hurricane Mitch, hurricane (tropical cyclone) that devastated Central America, particularly Honduras and Nicaragua, in late October 1998. NY Bond trader to jobless and unable to work in a foreign country. 1,580 residents of low-lying areas of the Dominican Republic, and more than 1,000 Haitian residents were evacuated as the hurricane approached. Holy crap, what a change. http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pdf/TCR-AL042007_Dean.pdf, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Dean. 1.58 inches of rain fell at St. Lucia's Hewanorra International Airport that evening. Petroleum damage was minimal, and quickly recovered. Dean was a top-scale Category 5 storm at landfall on Tuesday on Mexico�s Yucatan Peninsula. On August 20, Dean moved away from Jamaica, and moved across the very warm waters over the northwestern Carribean Sea. San Pedro�s very own, The Reef Radio, continued with their broadcasting throughout Dean keeping everyone informed of the conditions in San Pedro. The convective structure that day was dominated by a single eyewall, and because of that, as well as a light vertical wind shear, Dean began to strengthen as it approached the Yucatan Peninsula. Dean killed 44 people, and caused $1.5 billion (2007 USD) in damage. Belize Prime Minister Said Musa estimated that total damage in the country from Hurricane Dean reached $10,000,000 (2007 USD). https://archive.is/20131014011943/img156.imageshack.us/img156/7463/502pxdean21aug20071905zbx8.jpg. Made Landfall as a Category 5 hurricane. By August 18, Dean had grown in power to become a Category 4 hurricane, swirling in the Caribbean Sea. By 11:30 to 12 midnight we lost electricity � the wind picked up more aggressively until 2:00 a.m. when we began experiencing Tropical Storm winds and up to 75 mph � the hurricane winds proceeded until 6:00 a.m. Only about 180 people made use of the hurricane shelters � others spent the night with family members or friends � a bit more than a half of the population evacuated � Corozal Town received severe damage as did the rural areas of Xaibe, Chan Chen, Consejo, who were severely battered. Only one family stayed at Banyan Bay during Dean and they were just fine. INTERESTS ELSEWHERE IN THE WESTERN CARIBBEAN AND THE SOUTHERN GULF OF MEXICO SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF DEAN. Mayor Zenaida Moya urged residents to leave Belize City, saying it does not have shelters strong enough to withstand a storm of Dean's size. Hurricane Mitch was recognized as the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record, after the Great Hurricane of 1780. Government ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew from Belize City to the Mexican border. The land we know as �La Isla Bonita� is ready with open arms and already greeting their visitors. Barrow said that the Constitution of Belize doesn’t mention deferrals, and that the process to postpone an election would require a … Had Dean moved 54 miles south we would have had a disaster and San Pedro would have been worse than Keith. Dean's origins can be traced back to a vigorous tropical wave that emerged from the west coast of Africa on August 11. Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco declared a state of emergency early on the evening of August 17, asking for a presidential emergency declaration to give Louisiana access to federal funds prior to any potential landfall from the hurricane. With the exception of the Northern Corozal district, early estimates and initial hotel reports indicate very minimal damage to areas such as San Pedro and Caye Caulker. 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