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[Rick]

It was interesting to read of how the Revs Institute in Florida, a collection of some very fine motorcars indeed, responded to the imminent arrival of Hurricane Irma recently.

https://revsinstitute.org/news/hurricane-irma-update-from-the-revs-institute/

RJ
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[petelang]

For a year I worked on a project in Jamaica alongside the Government owned newly established bus company. The "Office of Disaster Preparedness" drew up plans for a possible hurricane strike as Jamaica has been no stranger to severe damage in the past.
The planning was extremely comprehensive and in the event of an imminent strike, all buses would be recalled to the depots and parked within inches of each other, mirrors folded in, that close, so as to form an impenetrable block. It's not unknown for a hurricane to lift a bus and throw it about like confetti. Even the diesel fuel pumps were caged in chains that were anchored to the concrete. Just about anything that could move had to be stowed and anchored down and all rain gulleys cleared.
Whilst there, I experienced some tropical storms where roads turn into instant torrential rivers and the amount of water coming down from the mountains above Kingston was spectacular, leaving Kingston harbour full of all the detrius and turning the water brown. Bridges vanished, roads disintegrated, trees came barrelling down the gulleys. Small wonder some people chancing what was usually a gentle ford, we're swept away and drowned. I was lucky. During my tenure, Hurricane Mitch arrived in Kingston bay, took one look at poor old Jamaica, then turned sharp left and demolished Nicaraguas banana trade. The locals said even God felt sorry for the Jamaicans!
The power of the weather can be collosall.
Peter

[Penman]

Hi
I have heard it said that this year the Caribbean is suffering collateral damage in God's revenge on the Americans for voting for Tromp.
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

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