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to deliver the damage and destruction it had threatened before it swept past Bermuda yesterday.
Forecasters originally feared that the eye of the hurricane would come within 60 nautical miles of the Island, bringing with it winds of more than 100 mph...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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the east of the Island, bringing high winds but nothing like the damage which would have occurred had she remained on her earlier course.
So we can all give thanks today that Gert was not worse. This storm fell somewhere between a bad winter storm an...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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Expected to be downgraded to a minor depression and totally fizzle out before reaching Bermuda, weather forecasters last night said the storm posed no cause for major concern.
Harvey is expected to be closest to the Island at 3 p.m. today when it is ...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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rough seas prevented them reaching the mother and young calf.
And they are not used to fending for themselves and fish stocks are slim.
The animals escaped from their pen, on the South Shore in Southampton, on Monday when high tides from Hurricane Ge...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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Residents in St. George's heaved a sigh of relief as the worst of Hurricane Gert passed, leaving it virtually unscathed.
The parish had been braced to face the worst of the blast, but suffered less damage from swell and winds than many other areas.
W...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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more than 12,000 households as fierce winds buffeted the Island late Monday and early yesterday.
Robin McPhee, corporate communications manager at Bermuda Electric Light Company (Belco) said at 7 p.m. that power had been restored to all main line cir...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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good news is strangled at birth.
As some Island hotels and resorts suffered beach damage and problems with debris whipped up by Hurricane Gert, the Pompano Beach Club got off almost scot-free -- which did not go down well with one network TV reporter...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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storm surge, life on Bermuda's cargo and passenger docks came to a virtual standstill yesterday.
In addition, several of the small boats in harbours around the Island broke their moorings due to the high seas and wind and, in some cases, ended up bei...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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Bermuda's hurricane heroes breathed a sigh of relief as Gert took a detour around the Island.
The team responsible for battening down the hatches said the Island was lucky to escape a full hurricane strike.
But they slammed sightseers and swimmers wh...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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Raymond Hainey, Assistant News Editor
yesterday as mountainous waves flooded houses, hotels and restaurants.
Millions of dollars of damage was caused as the ocean battered into properties due to the huge rise in tides on Monday night and yesterday.
Ferocious seas around Sam Hall's Bay, n...
DATE: Sep 22, 1999
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