Storm Alerts

Google, oh dear poster, is your friend

https://www.weather.gov.dm/resources/we … evel-guide

Thats for the country of Dominica, not the Dominican Republic- maybe you could use google a  bit more yourself !!!

@Fred, with all due respect, the link you sent the poster to, is not from the DR. That is from Dominica!

@DLaRomana, scroll down on this link and you'll see a general idea of what the various color alerts mean in the DR. Yes, it's definitely different than in the U.S. Hopefully this helps:

https://www.colonialzone-dr.com/DR-weather.html

@Fred Hi Fred looks like google didnt help you out much, wrong country.  But thanks for trying to help

@colmcb

Thank  you so much for sharing!

You're welcome. Stay safe. This storm is producing some crazy rain. I hope everyone in the Capital is safe!

@colmcb

Yes! Thank you! I hope you are all staying safe!!

    Thats for the country of Dominica, not the Dominican Republic- maybe you could use google a  bit more yourself !!!
   

    -@Mark Mclaurin

That would matter if the colour codes weren't in general worldwide use.

However, they are

Green really means be aware.  They have an effect on emergency services and resources.

@Fred

they actually dont mean the exact same thing from country to country and you didnt just pick dominica out of the clear blue- you clearly thought it referred to the DR and rather just admit your error you want to double down on the snark !

Jeez relax folks !  The amount of effort you're putting into sniping at each other is such a waste of your energies.  Someone googled the wrong country.    It's not the end of the world. 

Sit down, catch your breath, light a nice cigar and listen to the birds

It's not someone, it's one of the other moderators who does this from time to time.  His comments were misleading on a subject that actually could be dangerous.  His snark is also disrespectful. 

The subject of this thread is a good one though!!!

Doe the record we had almost 12 inches of rain in 24 hours, 300mm! 

Many communities are cut off,. People drowned, millions of dollars of damage.  Bridges collapsed! Part of an underpass collapses and 8 died.

All non essential business is closed today by presidential decree. 

At the height of the storm 23 provinces were in code red - means shelter in place.  Stay the hell off the roads.

Several were in yellow and then changed to red. And the rest in green. This storm effected almost the whole country.

In actual fact it hammered the Island of Hispaniola.  I've not seen reports yet from Haiti.

This weatherfront didn't move much last days hence the heavy local rain, yesterday all day long thunder and heavy rain in San Cristobal. Electricity out for almost 2 days now, internet just came back.

You can discuss the meaning of the colors, in general theyre all a prediction/warning and a sign not to go out at all to be on the safe side.

They also effect labor laws and if people get paid etc. 

So the bottom line is they matter.

In addition the president declared all non essential work - businesses - stores etc to be closed today until 7am Monday. Currently that is the whole country

Hope you all are safe.

Is this type of storm common in DR?

@ondami Like everywhere else in the world, the weather is becoming more severe. My personal weather station recorded just over 7" of rain yesterday, and Samana/Las Terrenas got off pretty easily! There was still considerable flooding of streets and homes. One of my friends is now homeless as the house they've spent the last two years building flooded very quickly yesterday with both rain and sewage. They barely had time to get out of the house before 3-4' of water filled the house!

Flash flooding is a very real thing here - lots of low ground near the coasts, developers building on swamp land, insufficient drainage, and it appears many developers/builders are only concerned about removing water from their own property with no concerns for where it goes and whose house it may flood!