Miami, FL

Dean brews and begins the journey towards us.

Photo Via The Miami Herald

Via USAToday:

In the Caribbean, hurricane warnings were issued for the islands of Dominica and St. Lucia by their local governments as Hurricane Dean approached. Hurricane watches were in effect for the islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe and its dependencies, Saba and St. Eustaties.

At 5 a.m. ET, Dean was centered about 485 miles east of Barbados and about 590 miles east of Martinique, according to the National Hurricane Center. It was moving west near 24 mph, and was expected to continue the same path for the next 24 hours.

Maximum sustained winds were near 75 mph, above the threshold for a hurricane. Dean is a Category 1 hurricane and is expected to strengthen during the next 24 hours, forecasters said.

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Via NBC6:

Seaview Industries filed for chapter seven last week in federal court. The company has been under scrutiny since hurricane Wilma in 2005, when several customers claimed they put down deposits for shutters and received nothing.

Seaview has been around a long time and it is sad to see greed and/or incompetence lead to their downfall leaving so many people stranded in the middle of hurricane season.

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