Hurrican Ivan Hits Cayman

I’m gonna just dump links to what news I can here. I haven’t heard anything directly from the island yet but I will post again today when I do.

Power is off on all 3 islands. Access to www.candw.ky is down, indicating that at a bare minimum Cable and Wireless shut off their servers. Land lines cell phones are reported working at least in part. Radio Cayman is off the air. I am also currently unable to reach Cable & Wireless international roaming customers.

Flooding has been reported in low lying areas. Storm surge is at 8ft. High winds are blowing down trees, light poles and removing roofs from buildings. Most power on the islands runs over light poles.

News Reports at this time:

• http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040912_646.html
• http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3486973
• http://www.caymannetnews.com/ - Last update at 11am local time. This could mean they have a satellite Internet link of some kind, perhaps provided by the British news crew.
• http://news.google.com/news?q=cayman - google news search for ‘cayman’ which should yield current news stories for the next few days.

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