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malaise

(295,020 posts)
Sun Oct 2, 2016, 06:10 AM Oct 2016

Just heard that over 700 folks from the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay [View all]

will be moved to Florida.

Yep - GITMO may take a direct lick.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT14/refresh/AL1416W5_NL+gif/233921W5_NL_sm.gif
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/02/americas/hurricane-matthew/
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The US will move 700 employees and their families from its Guantanamo Bay naval base Sunday as Hurricane Matthew inched toward Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.
Military planes will airlift people from the base in Cuba to various locations in Florida, including Miami, Pensacola and Jacksonville. Family pets will join the mandatory evacuations, base officials said.

Those getting evacuated are mostly nonessential personnel; there no plans to evacuate the 61 prisoners detained at the facility that holds terror suspects.
"Remaining personnel and their families will be taking shelter in their homes or designated locations," base officials said in a statement.

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