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Hurricane Frances battered the Turks and Caicos
islands with stinging rains and powerful winds
Wednesday, peeling off tin root's from wooden
hoases and knocking out power before churning
toward the Bahamas and threatened Florida.
Frances was already a dangerous Category
4 hurricane, its 140 mph-winds bolstered by
even stronger gusts, and forecasters said the
storm could get even more powerful. They
said Florida, still cleaning up after Hurricane
Charley, was a “prime candidate” to be hit as
early as Friday.
As the storm approached earlier in the
day, scores of islantlers fled their homes for
higher ground. Club Mod’s Turkoise resort
moved all its guests to safer second-floor
rooms as the hurricane passed.
The storm drenched the islands and downed
electric lines and trees, knocking out power
to Grand Turk Island Wednesday afternoon,
said Turks and Caicos l ire Chief Chris Gan
non. Emergency workers rescued one woman
from her home after the roof blew off.
“If we get through this without any loss of
life/it will be a miracle,” Gannon said.
Cruise ships diverted traffic out of the
storm’s path. Flights in and out of the Turks
and Caicos were canceled, and many were
expected to be canceled Thursday in the
nearby Bahamas, where residents in Nassau
had started looting bottles of drinking water.
The chain of more than 700 islands has a
population of about 300,000 people.
With Frances expected to reach the south
eastern Bahamas by Thursday, Bahamas Prime
Minister Perry Christie urged residents to remain
calm but cautioned islanders they could see “the
most intense hurricane in recorded history.”
Forecasters warned U.S. residents from
Florida to the Carolinas to monitor Frances
— the third major hurricane of the Atlantic
season, following Alex and Charley.
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush declared a state of
emergency, activating the National Guard
and nearly a half-million people were or
dered to evacuate their homes.
Floridians planning to ride out the stonn
snapped up canned food, water and generators,
while military helicopters and planes were flown
out of the area and Cape Canaveral's Kennedy
Space Center said it would close Thursday.
“I can’t emphasize enough how powerful
this is. If there’s something out there that’s go
ing to weaken it. we haven’t seen it,” National
Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield said.
There were no immediate reports of seri
ous injury as the Turks and Caicos govern
ment urged islanders to evacuate and move
to shelters. But most of the British territory’s
20,000 people were ignoring the call.
“Unfortunately a lot of communities are
not taking this seriously,” Gannon said. “If
we get through this without any loss of life,
it will be a miracle.”
Structural damage was reported on the ter
ritory’s low-lying islands, where many houses
are either wooden or have tin roofs, Gannon
said. Police w'ere going door-to-door and mak
ing telephone calls to urge people to move.
“I’ve never been in a hurricane before, so
it should be exciting,” said Julie Dilling, 45,
who was staying at a shelter with the rest of
her scuba diving group from Fort Worth,
Texas. “1 suppose it just adds to the story.
Last year, nothing exciting happened.”
Residents flocked to schools for shelter in
Providenciales, the main population and com
mercial center of the Turks and Caicos, about
140 miles north of Haiti. Some hospital pa
tients were also being moved to the shelters.
In the Bahamas, residents blocked the en
trance to Chelsea’s Choice Water company in
Nassau, grabbing bottles from trucks and of
fering a driver bribes for water. The company’s
manager called police for crowd control help.
“It’s pandemonium — madness!” said
manager Tina Knowles.
If we get through this
without any loss of life, it
will be a miracle.
— Chris Gannon
Turks and Caicos fire chief
The U.S. State Department issued a travel
warning urging U.S. citizens to consider the
potential risk of travel to the region.
About 200 non-emergency personnel and
their family members working at the U.S.
Embassy in Nassau and other U.S. govem-
ment agencies in the Bahamas were being
evacuated to the U.S. mainland, said Stacie
Zerdecki, an embassy spokeswoman.
Residents in the storm’s path were putting
up plywood on their windows. Others were
buying emergency supplies, stocking up on
bottled water and canned food.
“!t’s been difficult keeping shelves
stocked,” said Bruce Souder, managing di
rector of City Markets in the Bahamas.
Club Med evacuated its Columbus Isle re
sort on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas be
cause it was in the direct path of the stonn, said
Nadeige Martelly, a Club Med spokeswoman.
Hurricane warnings were in effect for the
central and southeastern Bahamas and the
Turks and Caicos Islands. A hurricane watch
was in effect for the central Bahamas.
At 8 p.m. Wednesday, the hurricane was
about 40 miles northeast of Grand Caicos Is
land. Frances was moving west-northwest at
about 14 mph.
Frances passed to the north of Puerto Rico
on Tuesday. Puerto Rico saw only moderate
rain and winds, and lightning that knocked
out electricity to about 17,000 people.
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than 21 percent of the students in
the program are ethnic minorities.
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