Living in Grand Cayman

I though this was nice ; I became a member of this CRV owners club on the web.  After posting a few pictures of our car on the seaside, the owner of the site asked if he could use my pictures on the main page of the club’s web site. 

See below for the results!  Not bad eh?

This morning, as Felix was upgraded to a Category 3 storm & a Tropical storm watch was issued for Grand Cayman, Julie and I were thinking  : Great!!!! (In a bad way)  Two hurricanes in two weeks would be a bit much 🙁

 Its now sunday evening, Felix has been upgraded to a Category 5 storm (the strongest …) but it is expected to pass over 200 miles south of the island, which is more than enough.  Forecasts call for heavy rain starting monday PM, but not much more. I hope that the people in Belize, Honduras & Guatemala are preparing … its probably not going to be pretty.

 Here is the latest forcast of the path.  As you can see, Cayman is in Yellow since a warning was issued. 

With the high winds, there was a large amount of salt spray from the ocean.  We noticed some of the leafs from our trees had fallen.  Well, on the large tree in our backyard, they have almost ALL fallen off, just like in Canada in November.  There are also lots of weeds (thatsd good …) and other plants that have now died.

Before the hurricane

After ; same perspective but with the addition of the Satellite dish.

One of the southern roads on the island, in South Sound was partially washed away.  We could still pass by car, but there was visible damage.

This final picture is unrelated to Dean.  We have noticed that there are many isolated rain showers here.  It is very frequent that it is pouring rain in one area and totally dry just a few hundred meters further.  While we were in Rumn Point this week-end, we were able to get a good picture of this.  Here you can see a shower on Georgetown which is across the North Sound … I would guess 8-9 miles across to the city.

Another of my articles was published earlier this month ; this time it was about Identity theft.  An interesting thing happened with this article … we got a good laugh out of it.

 By accident, my photo was used for someone elses article (see picture below) who is supposedly a financial specialist (He is actually a Dr. in finance who is seen in CNN, Bloomberg TV, etc.)

Notice my new name!  🙂

Here is my real article and what it looked like in the local paper.  Click on the link below if you wish to read my article.

micho_identity_theft.pdf

We especially found it funny since my article is on Identity theft.  In fact, I sort of stole that poor guys identity!

Just one day after Dean, Cayman is virtually back to normal.  Some debris & signs of the storm, but stores are open (even banks) and people are up and about.

A friend of ours gave us some amazing pictures of the flooding in Savannah which were taken immediately as the curfew was lifted.  There are some parts of Savannah where there was at least 3ft of water.

I have posted all the pictures at www.micho.org  Just click on the Hurricane Dean section.  Our pictures are on page 1.  Her pictures start on page 2 as of the 3rd picture on that page.  Look especially at the very LAST picture on page 2.   Look closely.  AMAZING.  If you dont see it, let me know at micho @ micho . org