 Grand Cayman
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 05:23:27 -0500, Charles
<fort@his.com.remove.invalid> wrote:
>In article <5Gpvf.1140$2i3.467@tornado.tampabay.>,
><mreed31@cfl.> wrote:
>
>> Anyone have any feedback on how Georgetown survived the storms, and whether
>> they are up and running?
>
>Georgetown is in pretty good shape now. Also a Sr. Frogs has opened
>there.
The Hard Rock Cafe has re-opened, so empty-headed americans can buy
'T' Shirts. ...walked by Sr. Frogs ... it seemed to be in business,
but closed at the particular time I walked by.
Georgetown pretty much restored after Ivan. New fixtures in Kirk's,
so you can no longer see the Ivan high-water marks.
Huge debris 'landfill' pile near the island. You could easily see it
from the anchored ship. The island is green again -- after Ivan,
it was brown, with all the foliage gone from everything.
Many of the hotels on the 7-mile beach are still closed with damage.
We went to the Hyatt. The beach club is open, but the main hotel
it closed. It looked like they got some significant storm surge
there. They said it might take 5-years to re-open. I found that
a little bit hard to believe, but who knows...
We walked from the Hyatt back to downtown. Many, many of the
hotels were closed -- with trash dumpsters in their parking lots,
and containers with building materials. One of the Kirk's food
warehouses was just steel-girders, everything else was gone.
We were there on New Year's eve. It was odd, how deserted the
7-Mile beach was. (I guess due to lack of rooms)
--
- Lee
| 
