STORM UPDATE

National Hurricane Committee Issues 'All Clear'

Thursday, August 12, 2004

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Reader comments:

• We are so grateful for your up-to-date information on the hurricane Charley. My daughter, Susan McLaughlin, her husband, Paul, granddaughters, Keris and Gemma all live on Grand Cayman and we worry when these storms threaten the islands. Living in San Diego, CA we can not imagine the danger of storms like this - Robert Bamber
  
   
• Thanks for the up to date information regarding Hurricane Charley. Even through the storm we from far away could know how things were going for our friends and family in Cayman - Maria Kelly
  
   
• We are grateful for your updates during the hurricane as our son is at SMU in the Cayman Islands and we knew what was happening, as you posted it! Thank you - Pat
  
   
• Thanks for the up to date information regarding Hurricane Charley. I live on Cayman Brac, but I am up in Wisconsin right now. This way I could keep up to date on the storm. Thank you again - Darlene Robinson
  
   
• I'm thankful that Hurricane Charley didn't cause any loss of life or major damage, that is from I've been able to gather on the internet, I'm curious as to how CNN and other news sources stated that Hurricane Charley was a direct hit yet Deputy Chief Secretary Donovan Ebanks stated, “It has been a close call and we are thankful that we have once again been spared.” Who is right? My daughter lives on Grand Cayman so I suppose I'll have to wait until we can get through to each other before I find out. I'm thankful is was just a category one - Florida is now under a category three or four and I hope they can be as fortunate when it comes to loss of life - Ralph Deline
   
  • Editor’s note: We suggest that readers rely on the local news as published by Cayman Net News. The international wire services are notoriously inaccurate about such things - as illustrated by the Associated Press story about Hurricane Lili 2 years ago, which implied that 100,000 people were homeless in the Cayman Islands (population 43,000)!

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