State of Emergency Declared in Advance of Omar
Posted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:34 am
From the St. Thomas Source: http://www.onepaper.com/stthomasvi/?p=1222834381
"Oct. 15, 2008 - As the territory prepares for Hurricane Omar, public schools are closed, government workers are going home at 10 a.m., a curfew begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday, and peace officers are deputized to augment Police Department officers, Government House said in a 5 a.m. press release.
The territory is now on a hurricane watch.
Hurricane Omar, now a Category 1 storm, will pass over the territory late Wednesday and early Thursday morning as a Category 2 storm with winds of 96 to 110 mph, forecasters say.
"It's going right over St. Croix at around midnight," meteorologist Walter Snell said at 6 a.m. Wednesday.
St. Thomas and St. John should get the worst of it at around 2 a.m. Thursday as the hurricane passes through the Anegada passage."
"Oct. 15, 2008 - As the territory prepares for Hurricane Omar, public schools are closed, government workers are going home at 10 a.m., a curfew begins at 6 p.m. Wednesday, and peace officers are deputized to augment Police Department officers, Government House said in a 5 a.m. press release.
The territory is now on a hurricane watch.
Hurricane Omar, now a Category 1 storm, will pass over the territory late Wednesday and early Thursday morning as a Category 2 storm with winds of 96 to 110 mph, forecasters say.
"It's going right over St. Croix at around midnight," meteorologist Walter Snell said at 6 a.m. Wednesday.
St. Thomas and St. John should get the worst of it at around 2 a.m. Thursday as the hurricane passes through the Anegada passage."