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SANTO DOMINGO.- The first hurricane of the season has formed over the Atlantic Ocean, as Tropical Depression Ana lost steam on approach to Puerto Rico, after becoming the first named storm to threaten the Dominican Republic this year.

Hurricane Bill is a category 1, whose maximum sustained winds increased to 75 miles (120 kilometers) an hour at 5 a.m. Miami time, the National Hurricane Center said on its Web site.

Ana, the first named storm of the June 1-Nov. 30 Atlantic hurricane season formed on Aug. 15, the latest into a season that it’s taken for a storm of that intensity to appear since 1984. Bill strengthened from a depression later that day over the eastern Atlantic.

Ana, now a depression with 35 mph winds, was over the Caribbean Sea, about 95 miles southeast of St. Croix. The depression is forecast to break up into a low-pressure system over the Dominican Republic and Haiti tomorrow.

Yesterday the authorities took the first measures to face emergencies and issued a tropical storm alert from Cabo Engaño in the east to Cabo Beata in the southwest.

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Written by: FredCDobbs This user is banned, 17 Aug 2009 8:00 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Parque Colon statue of Anacaona
we are like pins in a bowling alley.......just waiting
Written by: oupala07, 17 Aug 2009 8:14 AM
From: Canada
Time to teach the family how to swim
Written by: generoso, 17 Aug 2009 9:11 AM
From: United States, Santo Domingo
Do not worry, Ana will not become another delinquent immigrant, I was told the Taino gods were summoned to redirect her to go north and find others to punish.
Written by: juanb, 17 Aug 2009 9:16 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Sadly, we will be hit an hurt badly by a storm sooner or later. AFTER the damage is done, and our government will announce all kinds of studies and plans to prevent this from reoccuring, just like they always do. They give new meaning to "locking the barn doors after the horses are stolen."
Written by: HonestAbe This user is banned, 17 Aug 2009 10:37 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Just to get in the spirit of some of people who posts in this website:

Let's hope it gets stonger and hits hard!!

WOOOHOOOO!!!!
Written by: oupala07, 17 Aug 2009 10:48 AM
From: Canada
No, I want that shit to sway away from the island. We have enough trouble with our corrupt politicians and some rednecks who'd love to see us at each other throat. Let's rather be always ready to minimize the suffering and the misery those monsters storms keep granting our citizens from both sides of the border.
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