Dennis looks like it's coming onshore at Gitmo, where the asshats are in metal boxes 150 yards from shore.
Hurricane warnings were posted for the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti and eastern Cuba, including the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, where some 520 terror suspects are detained.
Inside the detention center, the military prepared audio tapes in at least eight languages warning that a storm was coming and heavy steel shutters would be closed on some cell windows, said Col. Mike Bumgarner.
Military officials had no immediate plans to evacuate troops or detainees at Camp Delta, which is about 150 yards from the ocean but was built to withstand winds up to 90 mph, according to Navy Cmdr. Anne Reese, supervisor of camp maintenance and construction.
Power lines could be knocked down and roofs could be damaged on some older, wooden buildings, Reese said.
"It will be bad, but it's not going to be very destructive," she said.
Link: Hurricane Dennis Steams Toward Jamaica.
UPDATE 07-08-05: Hurricane Dennis slammed Cuba's southern coast with 135 mph winds Friday before slicing across the Caribbean's largest island. Strong winds and surf buffeted the U.S. detention camp for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, on the island's eastern end, where a guard tower was washed into the sea. There were no reports of casualties.
The good news is that means no Americans were hurt. Make up the bad news for yourself.