August 17, 2007
The ace of the Green Sox staff, Pat O'Leary got married this past Saturday, August 11, 2007. Our Congratulations go out to him and his wife, Jen O'Leary. The beautiful couple decided that St. Lucia would be a fantastic spot to spend their first week as husband and wife together..............Last night, Hurricane Dean, a category two hurricane, with sustained winds of over 100 mph, hit the small island dead on.
This exerpt is from the Associated press this morning........................
Dean, the first hurricane of what is expected to be an above-average Atlantic season, lifted the roof off the pediatric wing at Victoria Hospital in St. Lucia's capital, Castries, but patients had already been moved, officials said.
Heraldine Rock, an ex-government minister in the former British colony of 170,000 people, said the storm ripped roofs off houses and damaged at least two banana plantations.
"In one village, telephone and power lines are down, they're strewn all over the road, trees are uprooted and are blocking the roads," she said. "In another village, a landslide has been reported, cutting off any access to the airport."
Deputy Prime Minister Leonard Montoute said at least two people were injured when a tree fell on their house.
"I'm told that the coastal areas have taken a severe battering, there's debris all over Castries in the capital and flood waters on the roads," he said.
On neighboring Martinique, an elderly man died of a heart attack during the storm and six people were injured, according to France's state office for overseas territories. Electricity company EDF said 95 percent of homes were without power.
It may be awhile till the Greensox get their ace back.
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