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Ernesto hits Cuba, on track for Florida

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8/28/2006 2:16:00 PM

Aug. 28, 2006, 8:16AM

Ernesto hits Cuba, on track for Florida

By ANITA SNOW Associated Press Writer
© 2006 The Associated Press

HAVANA â?? Tropical Storm Ernesto hit Cuba west of the U.S. naval air base
at Guantanamo on Monday after killing one person Haiti as it stayed on
track toward Florida, where forecasters expect it to strengthen into a
hurricane.
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Cuba ramped up emergency preparations before the fifth named storm of
the Atlantic hurricane season moved ashore about 20 miles west of
Guantanamo with top sustained winds dropping to 45 mph.

At 8 a.m. EDT, Ernesto was about 515 miles southeast of Key West, Fla.,
moving northwest at 12 mph.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared an emergency, ordering tourists to
evacuate the Florida Keys.

"We do expect it to reach the Gulf, maybe as a Category 1 hurricane,
possibly a Category 2," said John Cangialosi, a meteorologist with U.S.
National Hurricane Center in Miami. "It's difficult to say where it will
be, but in three days we're projecting it anywhere from the eastern Gulf
near the Florida panhandle to the western Bahamas."

Ernesto became the Atlantic season's first hurricane on Sunday morning
with maximum sustained winds of about 75 mph before weakening Monday.

Apparently diminished by Haiti's mountainous southwestern peninsula,
Ernesto was expected to regain strength after traversing Cuba's rough
terrain.

Forecasters issued a hurricane watch Monday for the southern peninsula
of Florida. A hurricane watch remained in effect for all of the Florida
Keys.

The Cuban government issued a hurricane warning for six eastern
provinces and Cuban state television broadcast extensive warnings about
the storm, urging precautions. Cattle were moved to higher ground,
tourists were evacuated from hotels in the southeastern province of
Granma, and baseball games scheduled for Sunday night in Havana were
played earlier in the day.

A tropical storm warning was in effect for Jamaica and the central Bahamas.

Cruise ship companies said they were diverting several liners to avoid
the storm.

In Haiti, Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of the civil protection
agency, said one person on Vache island off Haiti's south coast died in
the storm, but she could not give details.

Skies darkened as wind gusts swayed palm trees in Les Cayes, 100 miles
west of the capital of Port-au-Prince. People put goats and cows into
shelters, and fishermen pulled nets ashore.

Forecasters said up to 20 inches of rain could fall in some mountain
areas of Haiti, raising fears of flash floods in the heavily deforested
country.

"The only thing we can do is just wait and keep our fingers crossed,"
said Frantz Gregoire, 42, owner of the Bay Club, a thatch-roofed seaside
restaurant. He said he would send his workers home if the storm worsened.

Haitian officials went on the radio to warn people in coastal
shantytowns to seek shelter in schools and churches and they evacuated
some low-lying areas in the northwestern city of Gonaives, which was
devastated by floods during Tropical Storm Jeanne in 2004.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/41...
5 Answers

the Fucking Boudha

3/22/2014 5:47:00 AM

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which GrandMa Obama ?



Friday, March 21, 2014 6:40:34 PM UTC-8, Resty Wyse wrote:
> On Friday, March 21, 2014 5:09:17 PM UTC-7, Malay Sultan Ali ruler of Singapore , Glam Palace wrote:
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> > I think grand ma Obama should bark at WHITE RACE people,
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> > not at CHINESE
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> Grandma Obama had a PhD, but died of cancer in her 40s.
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> Barack Obama was raised by his maternal grandmother.
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> Unfortunately for her, she died of cancer in November of 2008, just a few days before her grandson was elected president of the U.S.

rst9

3/22/2014 4:17:00 PM

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On Friday, March 21, 2014 10:47:22 PM UTC-7, Vladimir the Great , ruler of first Russia 999 wrote:
> which GrandMa Obama ?

Obama's mother, grandma from Obama's daughters' point of view.

Coptic Priest Zakaria Boutros ( Botros ) , the instigator for the film Innocences of the M

3/22/2014 5:10:00 PM

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why didn 't you say Obama 's White GrandMother ?


n Saturday, March 22, 2014 8:17:18 AM UTC-8, rst9 wrote:
> On Friday, March 21, 2014 10:47:22 PM UTC-7, Vladimir the Great , ruler of first Russia 999 wrote:
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> > which GrandMa Obama ?
>
>
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> Obama's mother, grandma from Obama's daughters' point of view.

rst0wxyz

3/22/2014 5:40:00 PM

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On Saturday, March 22, 2014 10:10:03 AM UTC-7, Malay Sultan Ali ruler of Singapore , Glam Palace wrote:
> why didn 't you say Obama 's White GrandMother ?

I did.

She died of cancer a few days before Obama was elected president.
If she only had lived a few days longer, she would know her
grandson becomes a president of the U.S.

Jesus Christ the Holy Cunt Fucker

3/22/2014 5:55:00 PM

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You are too brainwashed.

"Malay Sultan Ali ruler of Singapore , Glam Palace" wrote in message
news:c2a79cf5-90ec-4f78-8ec5-d39128c00d77@googlegroups.com...

I think grand ma Obama should bark at WHITE RACE people,
not at CHINESE





Friday, March 21, 2014 1:56:22 PM UTC-8, Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote:
> Beijing hotel workers already 'fed up' with Obama
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> entourage in 3400-square-foot, $8,350-per-night suite
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> inconveniencing 'pretty much everyone' - and the first
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> lady's mother is 'barking at the staff'
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>
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> o Michelle Obama, her daughters and her mother Marian
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> Robinson are staying in a sumptuous presidential suite at
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> a Beijing Westin hotel
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> o Mrs. Robinson has been 'barking at the staff since she
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> arrived,' a hotel staffer said, adding that 'we can't
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> wait for this to be over'
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>
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> o Secret Service agents are monopolizing elevators and
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> booting high-paying guests from their rooms to occupy a
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> block of space near the first lady
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> o Both front and back doors of the hotel are blocked off,
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> with Chinese and U.S. security agents screening everyone
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> who enters
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> o Ordinary Chinese describe Mrs. Obama and her family as
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> kind and gracious, but hotel staff are 'fed up'
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>
>
> By David Martosko, U.S. Political Editor
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> Daily Mail
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> Friday, March 21, 2014
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>
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> Michelle Obama and three of her family members are
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> staying in a $8,350-per-night Beijing presidential suite,
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> but despite a 24-hour butler and other perks that come
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> with the lodging, her entourage has inconvenienced
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> 'pretty much everyone' and made the hotel staff 'fed up,'
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> a well-placed hotel staffer has told MailOnline.
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>
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> The sumptuous pad at the Westin Beijing Chaoyang hotel -
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> its website calls the room 'an oasis of comfort - is a
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> 3,400-square-foot masterpiece including a private steam
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> room, 'corner sofas with silk pillows,' and in-room
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> dining for six.
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>
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> But the Obamas' stay has already affected staff and
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> guests at the hotel, with the Westin front-desk veteran
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> alleging that Mrs. Obama's mother Marian Robinson has
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> been 'barking at the staff since she arrived.'
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> Continues at:
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> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586367/Beijing-hotel-workers-fed-Obama-entourage-3400-square-foot-8-350-night-suite-inconveniencing-pretty-ladys-mother-barking-...
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> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
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> Om Shanti
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> http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.j...