Punta Cana not affected by Tropical Disturbance 22

[SKY]

You missed a big one by a year................Hurricane Jeanne (Cat 3) in 2004.

First hand experience on this one.

The east was completely cutoff in this one when the bridge over the Chavon River was destroyed.

Lots and lots of flooding in the low lying areas around Bavaro. Palm trees down everywhere......some blocking roads completely.

Grocery stores (In those days there were no real super mercados in the area without driving to Higuey) without food......

Gasoline being sold for crazy prices in Presidente bottles on the side of the road as no power to pump at gas stations and then no way for fresh supplies to get to the east.

Tinacos literally rolling down the fairways at Palma Real during the storm.

Several people died trying to cross the Chavon river by small boat......swift moving current and no life jackets.......coupled with an inability to swim were the culprits. Expresso Bavaro ran to the river on one side and then passengers walked down and took a small boat to the other side where motoconchos were waiting for the ride up the hill to another bus............all this in horrendous rain and mud.

I was able to get out by chartering a small plane from an Austrian guy who ran a flight school out of an office at Plaza Brisas.

It may not happen often there..............but when it does..........


Respectfully,
Playacaribe2

More mis-information with NO LINKS. Reason is the Hurricane hit the WEST part of Haiti. Punta Cana had nothing to speak of. Read where it hit. Jimanai. Nowhere NEAR PUNTA CANA,

Dominican Republic: In the Dominican Republic the hardest hit flood area was in the west of the country adjacent to the Haitian border in the community of Jimanai. Present casualty figures indicate that a total of 401 lives were lost with 3000 families displaced and now in need of humanitarian assistance. JImanai is Nowhere near Punta Cana...........

Haiti/Dominican Republic Floods 25 May 2004 - Haiti

Situation Report in English on Haiti and 1 other country about Health, Recovery and Reconstruction, Flood and more; published on 25 May 2004 by CDERA

reliefweb.int

 

[windeguy]

More mis-information with NO LINKS. Reason is the Hurricane hit the WEST part of Haiti. Punta Cana had nothing to speak of. Read where it hit. Jimanai. Nowhere NEAR PUNTA CANA,

Dominican Republic: In the Dominican Republic the hardest hit flood area was in the west of the country adjacent to the Haitian border in the community of Jimanai. Present casualty figures indicate that a total of 401 lives were lost with 3000 families displaced and now in need of humanitarian assistance. JImanai is Nowhere near Punta Cana...........

Haiti/Dominican Republic Floods 25 May 2004 - Haiti

Situation Report in English on Haiti and 1 other country about Health, Recovery and Reconstruction, Flood and more; published on 25 May 2004 by CDERA

reliefweb.int

No SKY, you are wrong.
Jeanne reached hurricane strength on September 16 near the eastern tip of the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola,

As I mentioned the South and East of the DR are vulnerable. This is proof positive.

Hurricane Jeanne - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Looks like Punta Cana region was hit to me. PC2 did say personal experience on this one:

 

[playacaribe2]

More mis-information with NO LINKS. Reason is the Hurricane hit the WEST part of Haiti. Punta Cana had nothing to speak of. Read where it hit. Jimanai. Nowhere NEAR PUNTA CANA,

Dominican Republic: In the Dominican Republic the hardest hit flood area was in the west of the country adjacent to the Haitian border in the community of Jimanai. Present casualty figures indicate that a total of 401 lives were lost with 3000 families displaced and now in need of humanitarian assistance. JImanai is Nowhere near Punta Cana...........

Haiti/Dominican Republic Floods 25 May 2004 - Haiti

Situation Report in English on Haiti and 1 other country about Health, Recovery and Reconstruction, Flood and more; published on 25 May 2004 by CDERA

reliefweb.int

You have reached a new level of ignorance with this post.

Ask a long timer how/why the bridge over the Chavon river got destroyed.

I was there and witnessed it all.

And it was September 2004.........and nothing to do with your link.

smh.

Respectfully,
Playacaribe2