Well, now I'm seeing a hurricane kicking along at full speed. Jeanne is down to a Cat 2 hurricane, but that doesn't make it any less impressive. I'm probably less than 50 miles from the eye now, it'll past to the northeast of me, but the 'turn' all the meteorologists were hoping for didn't happen, and it looks like the eye-wall will pass pretty close to me. The picture is from the tropical section of Weather Underground which has always been my favorite weather site. The X is where I am.
I'm really tired of "on the spot" interviews and pictures on TV (right now the TV has a big colorful graphic "JEANNE'S FURY!!!!". Dude, it's a storm. Don't anthropomorphize it. It doesn't like that. They keep replaying this interview with some idjit newscaster who got blown over last night. He was on the shoreline where a category 3 hurricane was coming ashore, and he got blown backwards about 40' by the wind. I suppose no one mentioned to him that it's pretty hard to stand upright in 120mph winds.
I woke up to the sound of whistling wind outside my room - this room looks onto the courtyard where there's a swimming pool and other hangout spaces. They took all the lounge chairs (metal frames and plastic seating spacestuff) and just tossed them into the pool. That actually makes sense - they won't fly around and smash into the rooms.
Power and internet is working (yay!) and I think I'm going to make my way down to the restaurant and get some breakfast. I saw some families coming in last night with blankets and supplies and stuff to take shelter for the day.
I don't think we'll sell many registrations today :)
Im so glad you posted, I was just sitting here thinking about you over there.