Hurricane Maria pummels small Caribbean island of Dominica as Category 5 storm
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Donald Trump - already told you that karma will not wait.
You see another Hurricane coming to visit you.
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Wonder when Donald Trump visit Florida to inspect the destruction cause by Hurricane Irma, will he :-
(1) Make a statement that he make a big mistake for calling Global Warming a hoax.
(2) Make a statement that he make a big mistake of pulling out from the Paris Climate Agreement - and will reconsider rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement.
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Nature of karma will see Donald Trump and his supporters really repent - on all those wrong views that he and his supporters expounded on Global Warming, Protectionism on trade, business and investment plus others.
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Donald Trump should take the initiative to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord - and not wait for others to beg him to join.
Because karma is not going to wait.
Where the next hurricane may come.
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Also when is Donald Trump repenting - for pulling out of TPP?
When is Donald Trump request to rejoin TPP?
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You see another Hurricane coming to visit you.
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Ricky Lim ·
Singapore
Posted on :-
September 11, 2017
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ricky l 0 seconds ago
Wonder when Donald Trump visit Florida to inspect the destruction cause by Hurricane Irma, will he :-
(1) Make a statement that he make a big mistake for calling Global Warming a hoax.
(2) Make a statement that he make a big mistake of pulling out from the Paris Climate Agreement - and will reconsider rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement.
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ricky l 0 seconds ago
Nature of karma will see Donald Trump and his supporters really repent - on all those wrong views that he and his supporters expounded on Global Warming, Protectionism on trade, business and investment plus others.
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Ricky Lim ·
Singapore
Donald Trump should take the initiative to rejoin the Paris Climate Accord - and not wait for others to beg him to join.
Because karma is not going to wait.
Where the next hurricane may come.
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Ricky Lim ·
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Also when is Donald Trump repenting - for pulling out of TPP?
When is Donald Trump request to rejoin TPP?
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Hurricane Maria pummels small Caribbean island of Dominica as Category 5 storm
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PONCE,
Puerto Rico: The fourth major Atlantic hurricane of the year plowed
into the small Caribbean island of Dominica on Monday (Sep 18) as a
rare, Category 5 storm and will likely bring its roof-ripping winds,
torrential rain and pounding surf later in the week to the US Virgin
Islands and Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Maria was upgraded on Monday evening to the top of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale when its maximum sustained winds reached 215 kph, with higher gusts, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.
Less than 90 minutes later, the centre of the storm, described by the NHC as "potentially catastrophic", passed almost directly over Dominica, on a track that would put it over Puerto Rico by Wednesday, according to the agency's latest bulletins.
There was no immediate word on the fate of Dominica, a former British colony home to 72,000 people that lies in the eastern Caribbean about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe, to the north, and Martinique, to the south.
But Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in a Facebook post around the time Maria made landfall, said the storm has blown the roof off his home, adding, "I am at the complete mercy of the hurricane. House is flooding." He then added, "I have been rescued."
Millions more in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico have another day or two to prepare for the storm.
If Maria retains its strength, it would be the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years, since a Category 4 storm swept the US island territory in 1932, Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said. The last major hurricane to strike Puerto Rico directly was Georges, which made landfall there as a Category 3 storm, he said.
The governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, urged island residents in a social media advisory to brace for the storm's arrival, saying, "It is time to seek refuge with a family member, friend or head to a state shelter."
Puerto Rico narrowly avoided a direct hit two weeks ago from Hurricane Irma, which reached a rare Category 5 status and ranked as the most powerful Atlantic storm on record before devastating several smaller islands, including the US Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St John.
Residents of some islands fled in advance of the storm.
U.S. Virgin Islands governor Kenneth Mapp said Maria was due to pass early on Wednesday morning within 16 kilometres of the island of St Croix, which escaped the brunt of Irma's Category 5-force fury on Sep 6 and is home to about 55,000 year-round residents, roughly half of the entire territory's population.
The territory's two other main islands, St Thomas and St John, which lie to the north of St Croix, sustained widespread heavy damage from Irma.
Beth Tamplin Jones, 45, rode out Hurricane Irma earlier this month in the pantry of a friend's house on St John.
"It was so intense," said Jones, who evacuated to Puerto Rico last week and then caught a flight to Atlanta, where she planned to remain until Maria passed.
"We're in hurricane alley, so we've had other storms, but nothing like this," Jones said, referring to Irma, which killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the US mainland. "I don't think anybody's ever been hit by a storm like that. To see another one coming is just so discouraging."
Mapp warned residents not to underestimate the threat from Maria. He suggested that for residents who choose their homes over an emergency shelter during the storm, they might consider climbing into a bathtub and pulling a mattress over them to stay safe.
Maria was expected to whip up storm surges - seawater driven ashore by wind - of up to 2.7 m above normal tide levels, the NHC said. Parts of Puerto Rico could see up to 64 cm of rain, it said.
Puerto Rico, an island of about 3.4 million inhabitants, opened shelters and began to dismantle construction cranes that could be vulnerable to Maria's high winds.
Forecasters also were tracking Category 1 Hurricane Jose, packing 120-kph winds and located about 405 km east of North Carolina, and stirring dangerous surf and rip currents to much of the US Eastern seaboard.
Maria marks the 13th named Atlantic storm of the year, the seventh hurricane so far this season and the fourth major hurricane - defined as Category 3 or higher - following Harvey, Irma and Jose, the NHC said. Those numbers are all slightly above average for a typical season, which is only about half over for 2017.
Source: Reuters/jpHurricane Maria was upgraded on Monday evening to the top of the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale when its maximum sustained winds reached 215 kph, with higher gusts, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) reported.
Less than 90 minutes later, the centre of the storm, described by the NHC as "potentially catastrophic", passed almost directly over Dominica, on a track that would put it over Puerto Rico by Wednesday, according to the agency's latest bulletins.
There was no immediate word on the fate of Dominica, a former British colony home to 72,000 people that lies in the eastern Caribbean about halfway between the French islands of Guadeloupe, to the north, and Martinique, to the south.
But Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in a Facebook post around the time Maria made landfall, said the storm has blown the roof off his home, adding, "I am at the complete mercy of the hurricane. House is flooding." He then added, "I have been rescued."
Millions more in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico have another day or two to prepare for the storm.
If Maria retains its strength, it would be the most powerful hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in 85 years, since a Category 4 storm swept the US island territory in 1932, Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen said. The last major hurricane to strike Puerto Rico directly was Georges, which made landfall there as a Category 3 storm, he said.
The governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rossello, urged island residents in a social media advisory to brace for the storm's arrival, saying, "It is time to seek refuge with a family member, friend or head to a state shelter."
Puerto Rico narrowly avoided a direct hit two weeks ago from Hurricane Irma, which reached a rare Category 5 status and ranked as the most powerful Atlantic storm on record before devastating several smaller islands, including the US Virgin Islands of St. Thomas and St John.
Residents of some islands fled in advance of the storm.
U.S. Virgin Islands governor Kenneth Mapp said Maria was due to pass early on Wednesday morning within 16 kilometres of the island of St Croix, which escaped the brunt of Irma's Category 5-force fury on Sep 6 and is home to about 55,000 year-round residents, roughly half of the entire territory's population.
The territory's two other main islands, St Thomas and St John, which lie to the north of St Croix, sustained widespread heavy damage from Irma.
Beth Tamplin Jones, 45, rode out Hurricane Irma earlier this month in the pantry of a friend's house on St John.
"It was so intense," said Jones, who evacuated to Puerto Rico last week and then caught a flight to Atlanta, where she planned to remain until Maria passed.
"We're in hurricane alley, so we've had other storms, but nothing like this," Jones said, referring to Irma, which killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean and the US mainland. "I don't think anybody's ever been hit by a storm like that. To see another one coming is just so discouraging."
Mapp warned residents not to underestimate the threat from Maria. He suggested that for residents who choose their homes over an emergency shelter during the storm, they might consider climbing into a bathtub and pulling a mattress over them to stay safe.
Maria was expected to whip up storm surges - seawater driven ashore by wind - of up to 2.7 m above normal tide levels, the NHC said. Parts of Puerto Rico could see up to 64 cm of rain, it said.
Puerto Rico, an island of about 3.4 million inhabitants, opened shelters and began to dismantle construction cranes that could be vulnerable to Maria's high winds.
Forecasters also were tracking Category 1 Hurricane Jose, packing 120-kph winds and located about 405 km east of North Carolina, and stirring dangerous surf and rip currents to much of the US Eastern seaboard.
Maria marks the 13th named Atlantic storm of the year, the seventh hurricane so far this season and the fourth major hurricane - defined as Category 3 or higher - following Harvey, Irma and Jose, the NHC said. Those numbers are all slightly above average for a typical season, which is only about half over for 2017.
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