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0 1 20A THE MIAMI HERALD SUNDAY SEPTEMBER IT 1959 Hugo batters islands with 140-mph winds having as much of a good time as we can tried to enjoy it in a weird way not every day you experience a hurricane this ALEXSHUB North Miami Beach businessman caught by storm in Guadeloupe Hurricanes that formed in the same general area as Hugo have followed a vanety of paths making it hard to predict where -or if Hugo will strike the A United States UNITED STATES Gulf of Mexico kElic0 N-cuyl k(FELZE Honduras JAMAICA NICARAGUA" COSTARICA Colombia Venezuela "IV 65 i path is toward Puerto Rico HUGO FROM 1A sending spotter planes into the storm six hours warned that Hugo remained an dan-I gerous" Category 4 hurricane just looking at minor fluc- tuations in said forecaster Jesse Moore see nothing there to break it The storm was moving about 12 mph to the west-northwest on a path projected to take it over the Virgin Islands late this afternoon and across Puerto Rico by early 1 Monday Near Ponce on Puerto southern coast a city where even rainy tropical storms have caused disastrous mud slides in the past merchants were hurriedly boarding up shops Saturday afternoon Fif-I teen National Guard trucks were on standby to evacuate people to high- er ground On Tortola in the British Virgin Islands yacht charterers headed to safe harbor and back home have all the boats in and most of the people have said 1 Juliet Cupid of The Moorings one of major yacht charter companies in the islands it gets worse we will move the rest to government storm-force winds extend-1 ed up to 100 miles from the eye and forecasters warned of a storm surge tide of up to eight feet I above normal and up to 10 inches of rain under the storm i Hurricane warnings were posted I Saturday across the 500-mile arc of islands from Martinique through Puerto Rico Not since Hurricane David killed more than 1000 people there in 1979 has the region been hit by such a storm By late Saturday Guadeloupe and 1 Antigua were taking the first direct LEGEND (Hurricane: Year damages dead) Gloria: 1985 $765 million Hugo Allen: 1980 $300 million David: 1979 $355 million more than 1000 dead Donna: 1960 $13 billion 50 dead 0 Frederic: 1 979 $25 billion nature and you fight it I would love to get home but I walk said Pat Mcllvaine who had planned to fly British West Indian Airways from San Juan to St Lucia luggage went to Puerto Rico while she stayed in Miami disappointed that Hugo had wiped out her plans for a weeklong Caribbean cruise from St Maarten Others had fled to Miami to wait out the storm hard thing about a hurricane is that you have to make a decision to bail out early on or else you have the decision to said Pamela Kemp a resident of St Croix got up yesterday and heard the winds were up to 150 mph and decided to get out while I could The house we rent is up on a hill and has big glass Kemp said shops in St Croix were packed with people buying candles batteries and food Kemp left the Saturday morning bound for Atlanta Her husband a pilot for Eastern Metro Express stayed behind to help evacuate aircraft from St Croix to San Juan Another storm cloud is on the horizon: Saturday afternoon the 12th tropical depression with top winds of about 35 mph formed 1000 miles east of Hugo and was moving on the same path toward the Caribbean Herald staff writers Carlos Harrison in Puerto Rico and Sean Rowe and David Hancock in Miami contributed to this report are braced for Christopher minister of home affairs broadcast an appeal to residents: ask you to be calm We are dealing with a case of emergency which calls for wits and In Dominica just south of Guadeloupe the 81000 residents need to be urged to take shelter many remembered the devastation caused by David At Princess Margaret Hospital in the capital Roseau noncritical patients were sent home to make room for possible hurricane victims Government radio in Dominica warned that police were put on alert against widespread looting which occurred in the aftermath of David In Barbados about 200 miles south of path a disaster response team from Metro-Dade Fire Department established a communications center to assess damage and coordinate emergency medical treatment throughout the Leeward Islands Most flights to the eastern Caribbean were canceled by Saturday afternoon At Miami International Airport on Saturday Pan Am passenger Marjorie Ford wras on her way from Montreal to her funeral in Barbados when she learned that her flight to the island go as scheduled Flights to Puerto Rico Haiti and the Dominican Republic were on schedule late Saturday but connecting flights to several Caribbean islands were canceled can you Ford said REGINALD MYERS Miami Herald Staff hits from Hugo a window breaks supposed to go into the bathroom and sit it out said Alex Shub a North Miami Beach businessman staying at the Le Meridien in Guadeloupe The city was evacuating townspeople who lived in small houses on the beach Shub said The government ordered all cars and people off the streets by 6 pm taped up windows and have cleared out the he said Shub 26 said he speak French the language of Guadeloupe so he understand the notices that the airport was closing He became aware of the hurricane threat too late to catch the last flight out of Guadeloupe late Friday having as much of a good time as we he said Saturday tried to enjoy it in a weird way not every day you experience a hurricane this In Pointe-a-Pitre the largest city of Guadeloupe supermarkets and hardware stores were jammed earlier in the day as people stocked up on food bottled water flashlights and lumber Residents boarded doors and windows and many on the Atlantic side took refuge inland In nearby Antigua where the gales were beginning to be felt early Saturday night most buildings were shuttered by noon and all local boats were moored in the lagoon Electric power was shut down but the government radio station stayed on the air to broadcast storm information has been taken a lot more seriously because of the two recent close said Franklin McDonald of the Pan Caribbean Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Project recalling threats to the region by August storms Dean and Ga-brielle precautions have been McDonald said people For home delivery please call 1-800441-0444 She fUtami Herald Wake Up To Going On hTT' Hurricane brings memories of horror and death Seiko Has engineered a remarkable quartz timepiece for ladies Its lovely white dial is encircled by a golden bezel Subdials show the ph ases of the moon the day date and 24-hour time And it all wraps around her wrist in navy Ponce going to try to get them out But you know the people are a little hardheaded They want to leave their About 20000 people live in the coastal areas Most said Civil Defense Director Adalber-to Maldonado Torres will not use the refuge centers are those who go because they want to leave their belongings" he said will go to stay with relatives on higher ground Only a small percentage will go to the refuge The National Guard and the Civil Defense even planning for the people of Cerro San Tomas people Torres said have to take them out by He obviously spoken to Edwin Cruz-Arce who lives just below the Monument of Mameyes He tells a story about the night of rain and thunder four years ago: A taxi driver had just come home as the mud slide started He saw the first houses tumbling down the mountain He yanked out a gun and fired in the air to warn others It was too late Eleven members of his family died Horrified survivors came screaming and crying down the mountain' Mameyes was gone went to look and thought God this Cruz-Arce said it thunders many of our children still cry from Santiago said The homes are built nearly on top of each other clinging tenuously to the mountain slope Outcroppings of rock and dirt line the narrow walkways between the houses These are the streets barely wide enough for a person Saturday night the people of Cerro San Tomas prepared for another storm Few of the houses looked as if they would survive Few of the men spent much time boarding the broken windows Instead they prepared for evacuation of the number of hoodlums in the neighborhood going to recommend that we send our families to safety and that someone stay with the house to protect the said Heriberto Rivera Sevilla 37 a bank loan officer and treasurer of the man should leave at the last he said protect the It sounded like a good plan Except there are only 450 spots in the four refuge centers that the National Guard and the Civil Defense of Ponce are planning to use Most of those spots are slotted for families evacuated from the coastal lowlands that flood any time the Rio Portugues swells from rain If go know these said 1st Lt Carlos Martinez duty officer at the armory in By CARLOS HARRISON Herald Staff Writer PONCE Puerto Rico Dark clouds gathered overhead as sunset came to the Monument of Mameyes this reminder of the death that storms from the sea can bring Concrete walkways flowers and fountains cover an area the size of a football field This is the monument Under it is what used to be Mameyes No one lives here The rain washed it away 275 homes and 130 of its people swept down the side of the small mountain where Mameyes perched Buried under tons of mud that formed in the rain of a still brewing tropical storm that had less than half the force of Hurricane Hugo As Hugo and its 140-mile-per-hour winds appeared to be bearing down on Puerto Rico late Saturday the people of Cerro San Tomas were frightened Until the early morning of Oct 7 1985 they shared the mountain with Mameyes on the outskirts of Ponce on the southern shore of Puerto Rico fear that the same thing can happen said Carlos Santiago who has spent all of his 31 years in one of the ramshackle homes of scrap wood and corrugated tin There are 147 homes in Cerro San Tomas and nearly 900 people Many of the men including Santiago helped dig the bodies of their neighbors from the mud four 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