People urged to stay off the roads
(CNS): As Hurricane Grace began to move away from the Cayman Islands area Wednesday morning, government officials urged people to stay off the roads and at home until the all clear is given. With power outages all over Grand Cayman, downed power lines, trees and debris strewn across the roads and continuing heavy rains and strong winds, the situation was still not safe. At 11am local time Grace had increased in intensity to become a category 1 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 75mph. Grace was at that point 65 miles west of Grand Cayman moving west-northwest at about 15mph.
All government offices are scheduled to remain closed today and only civil servants working in emergency related jobs were being called to work.
Thousands of CUC customers are without power due to downed trees and lines but officials said that the George Town generators were all fine. Once the all clear is given crews are ready to begin work on the roads to restore power.
Meanwhile, Colonel Simon Watson said that the Cayman Islands Regiment has been deployed to West Bay to evacuate residents whose homes have been worst hit. In a live video message, he confirmed the treacherous state of the roads and urged people to stay indoors.
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Reading all the comments about CUC not working fast enough to restore power, you the same people who is complaining are the same people in society who don’t do anything in life for your community but complain and stay lockup in your house and peep out the window to see who will be doing the work after the storm. CUC worker’s was working while you was sleeping, they left their families at home to manage power lines and substations.
What did you do???? We import so many ungrateful XXXXX to this island. IF YOU DONT LIKE MY ISLAND PLEASE GET THE NEXT PLANE OR BOAT OUT I DONT WANT YOU HEAR.
We have alot of men in this island who cant even use a saw or chain saw and women who cant even boil water to make tea…..but no everything about facebook, tiktok and twiiter.
GET A LIFE XXX AND BE MORE PRDDUCTIVE AND GIVE THANKS YOU ARE HEAR AND KEEY YOUR MOUTH SHUT WE DONT WANT TO HEAR YOUR COMPLAINTS IF YOU NOT HELPING. cAYMANIAN
Quite literally their actual job.
Govt needs to make part of emergency law include a curfew once order is given until “all clear” is given.
I am not surprised at the entitled are whining about having to sleep with no AC last night. It’s pathetic.
CUC has a great crew and I am sure they also deployed their contractors and got the power on as soon as possible.
It would be interesting to know how many trees came down on lines and how many entire poles actually came down.
Well done CUC. Now all you government employees enjoying your day off. Get out of the line up at Papeye’s and go help a neighbour clean their yard.
But Wayne and Martyn can drive around posting propaganda pictures? If it’s safe for them to be in the roads, it’s safe for me.
I am not listening to any politician that owns several houses and doesn’t experience what ordinary people go through.
By God’ grace we r all safe. Our Hurricane preparedness and post hurricane restoration actvities top in the caribbean. Let us congratualate and commend all involved in helping smooth recovery.
Stay off the roads… that was well heeded. A lot of people at BK and the gas stations at Red Bay.
It’s also typical Cayman roads, with idiots driving at dusk, in already poor visibility, and either not having any lights on, or they’ve got every bulb and LED blazing and blinding all other road users.
Says the person who was clearly on the road
Essential worker, numb nuts x
Self anointed no doubt.
All you whiners should shut up & be glad you still have a house.
We are no longer facing tropical storm force winds per the 4pm nhc noaa update. Is CUC going to wait until we get clear skies? That could be days. Or are we just going to wait until everyones phone is dead and we can’t complain anymore.
Nearly an hour and a half since even a peep ftom HMCI. No info, no coverage, no help. Where are we in terms of CUC and the all clear for Gcm? Hours? Day? It is anyones guess. Hardly any updates all day. Ya’ll need to step up your game haz mgt.
Had my power back just before midnight. Sit tight, the next storm may be worse than this. Prepare, don’t whine…
Some people are all about me, me, me and don’t give a crap that CUC staff basically risk their lives to ensure they can sit in their comfy air conditioned homes and bellyache about the government and everyone else in the world who don’t meet their expectations.
All well and good staying sheltered, but some of us have to save our boats. They’re our livelihood.
I know the risks, but not having a business after this storm is a far bigger risk.
Some of them are already sunk. Better get a move on.
Ffs CUC.
Get. The. Power. Back. On.
Totally unacceptable.
Whining now eh?
Before the storm you had a lot of bravado, what happened in just one night?
Go and ask your mother.
I did ask her
She said that you was an idiot from the time she used to cut your backside with tamarind switch for wrong doing when you was a little runt …
Certainly keep down the number of village idiots that were raised by our village…
You really think they’re “dicking around.” ?
Ungrateful recent arrival displaying arrogance through sheer lack of understanding as to what is involved in these circumstances…dickhead.
Ah a classic xenophobe (long word, go get ya mama or someone with a high school education to explain it to you).
I’m Caymanian actually, so I know well that this is totally avoidable if CUC were to reinvest some of their obscene profits from their obscene monopoly into storm resistant infrastructure.
So run home an whistle for ya suppa little boy.
You are the consequence of an erroneous status grant There is no chance that you are a son or daughter of this soil. If you were you would have an entirely different appreciation for nature, and it’s awesome danger, including to persons you expect to be in buckets in the air during a tropical storm.
Can trace my caymanian roots back 5+ generations. What about you – do you know who (or which one) ya fa?
Not in a million years
You are a fraud
See you cannot count either. Figures.
You would think they
Would have it restored by now given the rather has been workable since 10am and the amount we pay CUC each month
I’ve been out working to save my company’s boats all day. I can promise you it was not workable out there for power line repairs until late afternoon.
Calm down. A few hours without power is not the end of the world
Fair enough. I retract my initial comment in that case. Thanks.
Yeah well CUC need to get the power back on and stop dicking around.
They have learnt nothing since Ivan, despite being told time and again to put in infrastructure to avoid exactly this type of scenario.
They just take the profits and screw the customer.
Ummm, Government could easily mandate in ground utilities. Places like Camana Bay manage it. CUC is not the issue. Your willingness to pay for the infrastructure is.
You are all lucky you are not without power for weeks in a blizzard where you can’t keep warm and worry about freezing pipes, and you and your family freezing. Power hasn’t even been out 24 hrs. Ungrateful.
Agreed. Can we use our mla’s pay increases to fund this? Or maybe actually charge fat cat developers duty to pay for it? I guess not. Everything is on the back of the little guys here. No justice for the working person.
CUC could put some of their profits towards the infrastructure, Government could enforce this rather than guaranteeing their profits every year. Government could also contribute funds – perhaps stop giving concessions to big developers and apply a portion of those funds to the work needed.
Power lines should be put underground.
I agree, and am willing to pay my share. Are you?
Would I have a choice? They have been doing upgrades all around red Bay area and I’m having to pay for that so why can’t they just put them under ground instead of more poles?
Go solar.
Tell that to my neighbor picking solar panel debris out from her car’s windshield this afternoon…
Yeah. Works really well in a storm.
We are waiting for 80 percent of the population to get vaccinated before CUC starts to restore power.
This.