Hurricane Wilma preps rough seas satellite images

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(24 Oct 2005) SHOTLIST • • APTN • Key West, Florida • 1. Various of high waves • 2. Water lashing pier • 3. Various of waves washing over children on pier • 4. People on pier • 5. Waves rolling into the coastline • 6. Choppy water and hotel • 7. Various of waves • 8. People watching waves roll in • 9. Surfers getting out of water • • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) • Miami, Florida • 10. Max Mayfield and Billie Wagner - National Hurricane Centre • 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Max Mayfield, Director of the National Hurricane Centre: • The good news here is that it's not going to be a very prolonged event. The bad news is it has strengthened a little bit and is now a very strong Category Two hurricane. • • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) • 12. Satellite Image, Infrared Loop, of Hurricane Wilma crossing Gulf of Mexico • 13. Satellite Image, Visible Loop, of Hurricane Wilma crossing Gulf of Mexico • • APTN • West Palm Beach, Florida • 14. Exterior of West Palm Beach Emergency Operations Centre • 15. West Palm Beach Emergency Operations Centre sign • 16. Various interiors of operations centre • 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vincent Bonvento, Palm Beach County Emergency Management: • But they need to understand that those hurricanes can really intensify and there is always the possibility of tornadoes so we're definitely encouraging the residents within Palm Beach County to secure their homes and to have a hurricane plan in place. • 18. Various interior shots of the shelter at the state fairground • 19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jack Able, Shelter resident: • All the facilities, regardless of what I ask for, they have it here. This is my first time here. I'll recommend this to anybody, even the grouchiest person. • 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Marilyn Able, Shelter resident: • I feel much better than staying at home and wondering what is going to go. And then too we are not young people so it's difficult for us to manage really. • 21. Various shelter interiors • • STORYLINE • • Hurricane Wilma accelerated toward the US state of Florida and grew stronger, threatening residents with 115 miles-per-hour (185-kilometres-per-hour) winds and a surge of seawater that could flood the Keys and the state's southwest coast. • • After moving slowly through the Caribbean and along the Mexico coast, Wilma picked up speed and strength on Sunday, blowing toward the US mainland as a Category 3 storm. • • The storm was expected to make landfall before dawn (EST) on Monday. • • The southern half of the state was under a hurricane warning, and an estimated 160,000 residents were told to evacuate, although many in the low-lying Keys island chain decided to stay. • • As the storm crossed the Gulf of Mexico, forecasters said they saw no evidence of wind shear that they hoped would reduce the hurricane's intensity before it makes landfall in southwest Florida. • • Wilma had battered Mexico's Caribbean coastline with howling winds and torrential rains before moving back out to sea. • • At least three people were killed in Mexico, following the deaths of 13 people in Jamaica and Haiti. • • Forecasters expected flooding from a storm surge of up to 17 feet (5.1 metres) on Florida's southwest coast and 8 feet (2.4 metres) in the Keys. • • At least three tornadoes were confirmed in the state, near Fort Drum, Kenansville and Cocoa Beach, and a large • waterspout was spotted off Key West. • • Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Centre, predicted Wilma would dramatically pick up speed as it approached Florida. • • • Wilma would mark Florida's eighth hurricane since August 2004 and the fourth evacuation of the Keys this year. • • • • • Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork • Twitter: / ap_archive • Facebook: / aparchives • Instagram: / apnews • • • You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...

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