Unfortunately, I gotta agree with drooper...Ivan is definitely strengthening just in time to whallop poor Jamiaca...We need another ERC and SOON! Otherwise, I'm guessing he's probably at CAT V status or damn close right now...

God...can you imagine those poor bastids who ignored evac orders...with no power...sitting in their ramshackle homes with a shotgun in hand (to fend off the inevitable looters) and not knowing what they are about to face?

I don't even want to think about the number of fatalities right now...but I can only surmise it will be in the hundreds, if not thousands...

Pray for Jamaica.