Losses at Casa de Campo are estimated in RD$1,000 thousand throughout the 22 square kilometers of the property. The hotel was the most affected with roofs, vegetation and windows blown away by the storm. The Listín Diario reported that Dominican students at Altos de Chavón were sent home on Monday (many are residents of Santo Domingo), and foreigners were lodged in the refugee center that was set up at the Hotel Central Romana to ride out the hurricane. Employees were housed there also from 6 pm on the Monday prior to the storm. The storm hit La Romana with 110 mph winds and gusts with a force of up to 150 mph at dawn of Tuesday, 22 September. Of the 384 rooms of the resort, only 100 rooms were unharmed. The hotel lost its telephone and cellular communication with the world from 10 am of that Tuesday. At present, a work force of 10,000 people is involved with the reconstructing. The management says they have plans to reopen with a golf tournament, Open Georges, that would commemorate the hurricane. The hotel has not yet announced a planned reopening date. Press reports have speculated it could be from the end of October to as late as early December. The town of La Romana itself suffered losses estimated by the city government at RD$1,300 million, not taking into account the losses of the electricity system. There were no deaths in Saona. The president of the provincial committee of the Civil Defense, engineer Hector Bienvenido Rosario said that the residents were alerted in time. Eight persons are reported dead in La Romana.
