Hurricane Dean: Belize streaming radio here

[Maddy McCall]

http://www.wrbn.net/

The eye just began landfall:



Category 5--one of the top 10 strongest hurricanes of all time, in the same league with Camille and Andrew.

:(

[sam sarrha]

1. i have lived there.. mostly POOR people in shacks .. the villages stick hutts thached roofs,some

shacks on stilts, when i was there the Captial Belmopan had a lot of simple cinder
block houses with really crapy looking mortor.. my father in law LP said the mortor
looked like they made it out of mud and dog shit

collection of OLD multi story tenement buildings when i was there, it was a while back, they still has a refugee community called HattiVille.. from the last tragic hurricane.. our government did literally nothing to help them after hurricane Hatti LEVELED THE COUNTRY.. it blew all the leaves off he jungle and you could see for miles.. where previously you could only see maybe 20 feet.. it is a POOR Poor poverty ridden place.. with very beautiful and wonderful people, my X-wife lives there.

[Maddy McCall]

3. I read on weatherunderground awhile ago...

that even concrete buildings are sure to collapse because they have smooth rebar in them, instead of ridged rebar. It is terribly sad. News images tomorrow will be disturbing.

:(

[sam sarrha]

4. there probably isnt any rebar in the houses in Belize

[dipsydoodle]

2. Latest BBC News information

Hurricane Dean has struck Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula near the border with Belize, bringing driving winds and lashing rain.

Cancun and other tourists resorts are being spared a direct hit as the storm comes ashore near the city of Chetumal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6955163.stm

That link will auto update as we move through the day.