I don't have much notice about Samana, but it was anyways not in the hardets Stuff Zone.
take a look on the SE where the real Hardware went through.
Bayahibe is now named Atlantis, the Hotels been luckily evacuated, streets and buildings are still flooded, the Dominicus Beach is simply Gone and will not come back as it had been before.
and we still have thunderstorm bands moving through for the whole SE and even harder for Puerto Rico, so the flooded Areas do not get a break to start to fry, they still get more water added on top.
Irene itself is Gone, but Her babies are messing around and they are quiet strong Babies not to mes around with.
here the rai stopped 40 minutes ago, but the next Thunder can already be heard in the not so far distance, no Sunburns this week in Punta Cana.
stay safe on that Path of Irene, she will be around from the SE'ern Caribbean til up to the NE'ern USA for quiet a longer while.
Mike