http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...008/index.html

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/cira/R.../tropical.html

Looks like we got out of Cuba in the nick of time as Tropical Storm
Paloma is predicted to Cross Cuba in the next couple of days as a Cat
2 Hurricane.
This is a shame as Cuba's growth has already been set back one year by
this years 2 hurricanes that already struck the Island. There were
many food stuff in short supply and the Fruit & Veg markets are
currently not operating.
Yet the people earn the equivalent of £1.40 per day (10 hours work),
but they all seem happier than many here, it is safe and there is no
knife crime or drugs, in fact because money has no 'real' value, as a
foreigner you're not worth mugging as there's nothing in the shops
anyway.

If you haven't been there, it's a real eye opener, take soap, shoes
and teeshirts, as these are to expensive for the locals to buy, if
they can find any, even leave some of your cloths that you may not
want to bring home. Beleive me, they are truly grateful people.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

On Nov 6, 11:37*pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...008/index.html

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/cira/R.../tropical.html

Looks like we got out of Cuba in the nick of time as Tropical Storm
Paloma is predicted to Cross Cuba in the next couple of days as a Cat
2 Hurricane.
This is a shame as Cuba's growth has already been set back one year by
this years 2 hurricanes that already struck the Island. There were
many food stuff in short supply and the Fruit & Veg markets are
currently not operating.
Yet the people earn the equivalent of £1.40 per day (10 hours work),
but they all seem happier than many here, it is safe and there is no
knife crime or drugs, in fact because money has no 'real' value, as a
foreigner you're not worth mugging as there's nothing in the shops
anyway.

If you haven't been there, it's a real eye opener, take soap, shoes
and teeshirts, as these are to expensive for the locals to buy, if
they can find any, even leave some of your cloths that you may not
want to bring home. Beleive me, they are truly grateful people.

--
Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Perhaps now that the USA has actually got a human being as a
president they may stop trying to ruin Cuba, a country that represents
no threat to them whatever.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

Tudor Hughes wrote:

Perhaps now that the USA has actually got a human being as a
president they may stop trying to ruin Cuba, a country that represents
no threat to them whatever.

And, as a gesture to the rest of the world, give the Cubans back
Guantanamo Bay.

Hugh

--

Hugh Newbury

www.evershot-weather.org

"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message
...
On Nov 6, 11:37 pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...008/index.html

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/cira/R.../tropical.html

Looks like we got out of Cuba in the nick of time as Tropical Storm
Paloma is predicted to Cross Cuba in the next couple of days as a Cat
2 Hurricane.
This is a shame as Cuba's growth has already been set back one year by
this years 2 hurricanes that already struck the Island. There were
many food stuff in short supply and the Fruit & Veg markets are
currently not operating.
Yet the people earn the equivalent of £1.40 per day (10 hours work),
but they all seem happier than many here, it is safe and there is no
knife crime or drugs, in fact because money has no 'real' value, as a
foreigner you're not worth mugging as there's nothing in the shops
anyway.

If you haven't been there, it's a real eye opener, take soap, shoes
and teeshirts, as these are to expensive for the locals to buy, if
they can find any, even leave some of your cloths that you may not
want to bring home. Beleive me, they are truly grateful people.

--
Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Perhaps now that the USA has actually got a human being as a
president they may stop trying to ruin Cuba, a country that represents
no threat to them whatever.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

--

I'd imagine the Castros are doing a great job of that by themselves,
especially where political dissidents are concerned. If the US is so evil,
then why are so many Cubans willing to risk their lives to cross the sea to
Florida?

Paul.

On Nov 7, 11:57*am, "Paul Evans" wrote:
"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message

...
On Nov 6, 11:37 pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:





http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...008/index.html

http://www.cira.colostate.edu/cira/R.../tropical.html

Looks like we got out of Cuba in the nick of time as Tropical Storm
Paloma is predicted to Cross Cuba in the next couple of days as a Cat
2 Hurricane.
This is a shame as Cuba's growth has already been set back one year by
this years 2 hurricanes that already struck the Island. There were
many food stuff in short supply and the Fruit & Veg markets are
currently not operating.
Yet the people earn the equivalent of £1.40 per day (10 hours work),
but they all seem happier than many here, it is safe and there is no
knife crime or drugs, in fact because money has no 'real' value, as a
foreigner you're not worth mugging as there's nothing in the shops
anyway.

If you haven't been there, it's a real eye opener, take soap, shoes
and teeshirts, as these are to expensive for the locals to buy, if
they can find any, even leave some of your cloths that you may not
want to bring home. Beleive me, they are truly grateful people.

--
Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

* * * *Perhaps now that the USA has actually got a human being as a
president they may stop trying to ruin Cuba, a country that represents
no threat to them whatever.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

--

I'd imagine the Castros are doing a great job of that by themselves,
especially where political dissidents are concerned. If the US is so evil,
then why are so many Cubans willing to risk their lives to cross the sea to
Florida?

Paul.- Hide quoted text -

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Whatever the failings of Castro and his mates there is no
excuse for the disgraceful American actions against Cuba. It is
bullying, pure and simple.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.

When we went on any tours, the guides were quick to point out any
failings of the United States and Guantanamo Bay was mentioned, as in
it's occupied illegally. Some years back Cuban's started to hoard
Dollars, the government made it a prisonable offence to own them and
they then set up what is called the Convertible Peso, which IIRC is
worth 24 of their Peso's. It is the convertible Peso that tourists use,
so Dollars have no use for locals. You have to convert your own currency
in Cuba, you can't buy C Peso's here in the UK. Anything American can't
be used.

As for Castro, he is generally well thought of, the impression I got was
that before Castro there were the very rich few and everyone else was
very poor. Castro made everything state owned, so for example Bacardi
was made in Cuba, but after the nationalization the owner moved it
abroad as he owned the patent. Many of the rich lost most of their money
and in general these are the ones that are anti. I guess there are
similarities to the white farmers of Zimbabwee, but that's another
story. However, everyone has a job and 7% of their earnings is payed to
the government as a mortgage, so many own their modest properties now.
They can't sell for a profit, they can only arrange a swap. So in
someways I can see there point of view, even though I would find it hard
to accept after being used to our own system.

I'm sure Cuba will change, but I hope it is a gradual process as it will
all go horribly wrong. It would be nice to see them being able to freely
travel abroad, but how many would return currently after seeing the
wealth in other parts of the world.

The bottom line with me is you can pull apart both their and our
systems, but neither are perfect, we are just used to what we've got.
One thing I will say, I felt safer there than I do in the UK and
certainly some of the large towns and City's in the USA.

Anyway, let's hope Hurricane Paloma doesn't damage their fragile
infrastructure anymore.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

On Nov 7, 11:57*am, "Paul Evans" wrote:
"Tudor Hughes" wrote in message

...
On Nov 6, 11:37 pm, "Keith (Southend)G"
wrote:

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/...008/index.html
http://www.cira.colostate.edu/cira/R.../tropical.html

Looks like we got out of Cuba in the nick of time as Tropical
Storm Paloma is predicted to Cross Cuba in the next couple
of days as a Cat 2 Hurricane.

This is a shame as Cuba's growth has already been set back
one year by this years 2 hurricanes that already struck the
Island. There were many food stuff in short supply and the Fruit
& Veg markets are currently not operating.

Yet the people earn the equivalent of £1.40 per day (10 hours
work), but they all seem happier than many here, it is safe and
there is no knife crime or drugs, in fact because money has no
'real' value, as a foreigner you're not worth mugging as there's
nothing in the shops anyway.

If you haven't been there, it's a real eye opener, take soap, shoes
and tee-shirts, as these are too expensive for the locals to buy, if
they can find any, even leave some of your clothes that you may
not want to bring home. Believe me, they are truly grateful
people.

Perhaps now that the USA has actually got a human being as a
president they may stop trying to ruin Cuba, a country that
represents no threat to them whatever.

I'd imagine the Castros are doing a great job of that by themselves,
especially where political dissidents are concerned. If the US is so
evil, then why are so many Cubans willing to risk their lives to
cross the sea to Florida?

You mean they are not allowed to leave or not allowed to arrive?

Somehow the picture of the free country keeps coming up as a rather
small, green, socialist one.

The alternative only got a free election that wasn't fixed because the
incumberance was all washed up and the replacement had the polling
stations patrolled by lawyers.

What kind of culture is that?
When you think secret police and disappeared ones, you don't think of
Cuba. When you think of the freedom to go to Cuba you don't think of
the USA.

And the worst thing for the newbie is that the chimp has invited him
to dance. If he says thanks but no thanks and bush gets few more weeks
to hash things up, Obama will have more difficult job.

But if he joins the present farce he gets mired with the slush.

Personally I'd steer clear. If the monkey wants to get out early, make
the fool say so.

As for the regime. Whilst I can't agree with any totalitarianism,
Bushco or Castro, the fact remains the proportion of people killed in
tropical storms is much higher in the USA than it is in Cuba.

What was the score last time? 200 to 6 or something? How did the USA
manage to let 200 people die in a bloody storm? There'd have been a
general election if such a thing were allowed to happen in Britain.

Now a Category 2 Hurricane crossing the Cayman Islands and heading for Cuba.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Keith (Southend) wrote:
Now a Category 2 Hurricane crossing the Cayman Islands and heading for
Cuba.

################################################## ##############################
# SYNOPS from 78384, Owen Roberts Airportgrand Cayman (Cayman Islands)
| 19-17N | 081-21W | 3 m
################################################## ##############################
200811071800 AAXX 07184 78384 11456 80831 10245 20238 40057 60621 76162
8422/ 333 0/249 10249 20234 59052 71121 84812 88458
90983=

112.1mm of rain in the past 24 hours.

--
Keith (Southend)
http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

On Nov 7, 9:35*pm, "Keith (Southend)"
wrote:
Keith (Southend) wrote:
Now a Category 2 Hurricane crossing the Cayman Islands and heading for
Cuba.

################################################## ##############################
# *SYNOPS from 78384, Owen Roberts Airportgrand Cayman (Cayman Islands)
| 19-17N | 081-21W | 3 m
################################################## ##############################
200811071800 AAXX 07184 78384 11456 80831 10245 20238 40057 60621 76162
8422/ 333 0/249 10249 20234 59052 71121 84812 88458
* * * * * * * * * * 90983=

112.1mm of rain in the past 24 hours.

--
Keith (Southend)http://www.southendweather.net
e-mail: kreh at southendweather dot net

Here's a graphic

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/grap...814.shtml?5day

Cheers, Alastair.