Listening with interest to Jamaician Radio.
http://war.str3am.com:7550/listen.pls (needs Real Player). Locals on the
phone-in don't seem to know what all the fuss is about!

Mark.

Seems to have gone off the air now :-(

Keith (Southend)

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:51:25 GMT, "Mark" wrote:

Listening with interest to Jamaician Radio.
http://war.str3am.com:7550/listen.pls (needs Real Player). Locals on the
phone-in don't seem to know what all the fuss is about!

Mark.

"Mark" wrote in message
...
Listening with interest to Jamaician Radio.
http://war.str3am.com:7550/listen.pls (needs Real Player). Locals on the
phone-in don't seem to know what all the fuss is about!

Mark.


Is this still working I just get a file opening that says requires playlist

--
Jim
Moulton, Northampton
N52:17 W00:50
105m (335') ASL

Keith (Southend) wrote:
Seems to have gone off the air now :-(


The Jamaican PM ordered the national grid to be switched off, so the
whole island's currently off power until Ivan has passed. Source: BBC
News online - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3646528.stm

G.

--
Graham J. Platt
TRA #10112 L2

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:22:53 +0100, Keith (Southend) wrote:

Seems to have gone off the air now :-(

I wonder why? ...

Makes you think doesn't it, 5 days or so of waiting knowing that your
home, those of all your neighbours and the rest of the country are
about to be flattened and there is sweet FA you can do about it. I
wonder how this country would react?

Remember the size of a hurricane as well, last info about Ivan had
hurricane force winds in an area 90 miles in dia and storm force 350
miles dia.

If the eye tracked over Stoke on trent, Birmingham and Manchester
would be on the edge of the hurricane force zones, with sustained wind
speeds 73mph. Storm force (39 to 73mph sustained) would be from
Carlisle to south of Swindon. Really puts into perspective that silly
little blow in autumn '87...

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

In article k,
says...
The Jamaican PM ordered the national grid to be switched off, so the
whole island's currently off power until Ivan has passed. Source: BBC
News online - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3646528.stm



As I listened last night, I interpreted it as that the PM declared a
State of Emergency but it was the Electric Board that made the decision
to pull the plug on the grid.

--
Alan LeHun

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 12:25:29 +0100, Alan LeHun wrote:

In article k,
says...
The Jamaican PM ordered the national grid to be switched off, so the
whole island's currently off power until Ivan has passed. Source: BBC
News online - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3646528.stm

As I listened last night, I interpreted it as that the PM declared a
State of Emergency but it was the Electric Board that made the decision
to pull the plug on the grid.

Yes, it was done to protect the integrity of the grid and happened
before the hurricane force winds hit the island. Some callers to the
radio station complained about it so that wasn't directly the reason
they went off air. That was a great link provided by Mark, and a lot
happened in the half hour before they went off air (I taped it all):

At 7:25 BST (1:25am local) the police came on the line to say a Police
Superintendent had to deliver a baby boy at the mother's home, when
road conditions prevented his official car from getting to the
hospital after three attempts. Awww!!!

At 1:32 local time, (when Ivan's eye was just off the Southern tip of
the Island running parallel to the coast) they said there had been no
reports of injuries so far - only property damage and trees down.
Obviously that could change.

A minute later, they went to continuous music, saying they would be
back at 2 am local time.

At 1:46 am local time, the record then playing was rapidly faded out
to complete silence, over a period of half a second. No announcement
was made and the station did not return to air (well not for at least
4 hours, when I last checked).

This was a definite studio fade out and not an internet or broadcast
failure - the waveform is clear. My reading of it is that a very
sudden decision was made to evacuate the studio, otherwise there would
have been an announcement.

The good news is, I think, that Ivan suddenly turned left some 20 or
30 miles before reaching Kingston and skirted (is skirting) almost the
entire South Coast of the island over the next 10 hours or so. The
eyewall may not have come ashore at all although hurricane force winds
will, of course, have hit the island. Perhaps the large Westward
wobble was caused by Ivan's interaction with the island - there's some
pretty high terrain on there. Lucky for them, I think.

I cannot understand why the BBC are still saying the eye passed over
Kingston (it did not) and that winds of over 150 mph have been
recorded (this is highly unlikely - except in the offshore eyewall).

--
Dave

On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 14:07:44 +0100, Dave Ludlow wrote in
news snip
I cannot understand why the BBC are still saying the eye passed over
Kingston (it did not) and that winds of over 150 mph have been
recorded (this is highly unlikely - except in the offshore eyewall).

Indeed, and that link Tom posted last night shows the eye kept off-shore
all the time and is now heading away from the island.

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA...-vis-loop.html


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Mike 55.13°N 6.69°W Coleraine posted to uk.sci.weather 11/09/2004 13:52:27 UTC

In article ,
says...
At 1:46 am local time, the record then playing was rapidly faded out
to complete silence, over a period of half a second. No announcement
was made and the station did not return to air (well not for at least
4 hours, when I last checked).



It's back on now.

--
Alan LeHun