DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

With still two weeks before the brunt of the hurricane season starts in September, Hurricane Erin served as a wake up call for Dominicans. MikeFisher weather forecaster for DR1 described the storm as “this very out of the ordinary Super Storm Erin.” He wrote: “I don’t remember a storm growing from TS to Cat5 that fast, there for sure have been just a few in history. And a Cat5 around our turf already by mid-August, I assume, the historics will also name out of the ordinary. It shows how ready ocean surface temps and all around conditions are out there on our highway.”

Hurricane Erin indeed is a fickle storm that seemed to have not made up its mind where to hit and instead chose a path that is taking it to open Atlantic Ocean waters.

The storm intensity has been up and down, fluctuating from a Category 3 storm to a Category 5 storm. But the good news iss that as forecasted, the storm...