News from Waterworld

In my area people have been driven to panic buying - there is no gasoline available, no bottled water, heck, I was just in the Wal*Mart and there wasn't a banana in the place. Yes, we have no bananas, I have never seen that before.

The eye of the storm will hit the coast later, as near as I can tell, and we just started getting rain from outer rain bands at 8:00 PM sharp. It is heavy rain but not steady.

My friends who live on a river down near the coast decided, after much hesitation, to leave their house which is a few blocks from the waterfront. They own a house right down the road and so we did some visiting and galavantin' and wood working and sittin' around visiting, which is what they call it around here. The weather was warm, a bit breezy, there were some clouds, even some blue sky visible. Not the worst hurricane I ever saw, that's for sure.

But the interesting part, at least to me about this storm's track is that rather than the initial forecast that it was going to run straight at us, it has looped south of us and then it will run west of us. At least that is the current projection. I am okay with that.

In any case, that's the first report from hurricane alley.

Last evening's sunset:

We went for a walk and my dog was keeping an eye out for a hurricane:

Afternoon sky:

Evening sky:

It's not even raining now, but then again, the storm has not yet come ashore.

More as conditions warrant.

It's a natural question.