Its not looking good.  The latest Government forecasts say Gustav will be a Category 2 by the time it reaches Grand Cayman in the afternoon/evening Friday.  Right now it is beating on Jamaica and then on to us. I will be going to my office tomorrow morning.  I only have the satellite dish left to take down and that’s it.  A friend will pick me up since I am leaving the car in the garage. Some of the forecasts have it going north after Jamaica … again, who knows but by now, no one is taking any chances.

Right now its sunny and a slight wind is blowing east to west … not very surprising! Beautiful day. Just like for dean last year, I find it very eerie to know that its so nice but that a huge storm is just a few hundred miles way.  A very strange feeling.

Most homes now have their shutters up.  Our house has the “traditional” plywood shutters.  Does a great job, but not extremely good looking (although our are painted). I thought I would show some of the other types out there.

These are lexan (sort of plexiglas) which allows the people to see our during a storm but protect great against debris flying around.

This house has the premium “pull down” model.  Probably takes 10 seconds per shutter to close.  From what I am told, they cost a small fortune, but are IMO the best out there. Very slick looking for a shutter … if that’s possible.

Here our local grocery has the industrial type steel shutters.  Nothing is getting through these baby’s!!!

Finally, here are the cars in the roundabout this morning.  When I drove home in the afternoon there where already more cars and by tonight it will probably be completely full.  Notice the slope ; at the center its probably 3-4ft above street level (although not that obvious in the picture)