Just to let everyone know, grenada and SGU are preparing for Hurricane Ivan. The busses are going to stop running at 6pm tonight. All of the supermarkets are closed or will be very soon. The wait in line at Real Value was said to be 1.5 hours. It was only 15 minutes at Food Fair. Excel plaza is boarded up. The school has told us to gather up important documents, a change of clothes, and be prepared to evacuate to the lecture halls. Afternoon classes were canceled as well as all of classes for tomorrow (to be rescheduled on saturday!). I've talked to some locals today, they say they haven't had anything like this in a very long time. I guess a hurricane passed through here back in the 1950's and leveled the island (don't quote me on that). I'll let you know how it all turns out. Atleast we're not in florida.

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PGY-2 Pediatrics
SGU class of 2007

Marilyn nearly got us in 1995 but missed us. lets hope the same for you. all the best,

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Steph
If you get a warning, put on yer manpants and stop whining about it.

Wow, I must say that this is kind of exciting, frightening, nerve-wracking, and interesting all at once. I'm in Vinnys and it looks like Ivan is bearing down on us and we're right directly in the middle of the path.

I have to evacuate to my friends place, I live right on the Atlantic Ocean. The waves just started picking up and I'd say are about 10 feet high now. The storm surge should come in by 6.00 am when the first winds of the storm begin. The eye of the storm should come by tomorrow noon. I just hope that everyone is safe and I hope that the island doesn't get too damaged and no one dies. But I'm preparing for the worst

The people seem so non-chalant about this hurricane, but its probably because the last big hurricane came about 50 years ago, so no one has much experience.

Lets just all pray that everyone is safe!

Good luck to you all!

-Amor

Good luck from us in dominica,
We are breathing a sigh of relief up here as it looks like the hurricane stopped its north west movement long enough that it is going to mostly miss us.

Stay safe everyone.

peace

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Drexel (4th year)

Now Ivan is coming closer to us. When i started tracking it earlier today, there was only a 15% chance the eye would pass within 65 miles of us (hurricane force winds can be felt up to 70miles from the eye). Then it was 20%, then 30%, and now its 54%. Well i'm stocked up with water, clothes and food are packed, and maybe i might get some studying done tonight (1st round of exams is next week for 4th term, 1st unified for the 1st termers). We were worried about the 5th termers in vinnies, so thanks for the update.

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PGY-2 Pediatrics
SGU class of 2007

The track of Ivan has definitely shifted straight west instead of the northwest movement earlier.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov

it has begun. trees fallin. im in the histo lab and the lights went out. this is bad.

Good luck with the hurricane, my family will be praying for everyone in its path. Let us all know if everything is ok when it is over.

I'm in L1; power just went out.

still getting firefly signal though (my own router is out due to lack of powa)

some stuff just flew off the roof and banged into the chancellery across the street; eerie!!

hope everyone's doin' well, esp. the grand anse kids who had to be evac'd last night.

Cheers,

Silenthunder

Silentthunder:

As a parent of a Ross student who reads all carib threads on valuemd I want to express my good thoughts to all of those students in the southern carribean who are in the path of Hurricane Ivan. My prayers are with all ofyou. This is just another storm in acheiving the goal that you all set: to become an MD.

Good lock to all of you

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