{"id":1102,"date":"2010-01-30T16:57:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2010-01-30T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:57:52","slug":"smart-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Smart thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each time a hurricane, or even a tropical storm\/depression comes close to Grand Cayman, all the residents prepare and brace for the worst.\u00a0\u00a0 However, those who live in South Sound near the water probably worry a bit more.\u00a0 You see, the street is no more (my estimation) than 4ft above sea level, so any surge will spill sea water into homes and onto the street. For every storm we have seen since getting here, some homes were damaged and had water come in.<\/p>\n

Now, this guy has it all figured out:<\/p>\n

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This house that is near completion is build about (again my estimate) about 10ft off the ground on concrete stilts. So barring some catastrophic storm,\u00a0 this house should do just fine.<\/p>\n

Another resident on South Church street who figured this out is the owner of the biggest house on Grand Cayman.\u00a0 Notice the slope on the driveway. This house is perched up quite high compared to street level. \"img_7815\"<\/p>\n

If you want to see some jaw dropping pictures inside and outside of this mansion, take a look here.\u00a0 The owner, from what I have been told is a 30-something financier. I have also been told that he is a super nice guy and if you met him you would never know that he is uber-wealthy. Before you ask, the number 30M$ was once mentioned to me, but I have no way of knowing if this is true or now.\u00a0 In any case, who cares, its a amazing house!<\/p>\n

See the pictures here:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/homesoftherich.net\/2009\/05\/cayman-islands-mega-mansion.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Couple of other random things …<\/p>\n

I got this view of a cruise ship while on a dive boat.\u00a0 Quite an impressive sight up close.<\/p>\n

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Plus, there were localized rain showers this week and today (of course, also one right after I washed my truck)<\/p>\n

Here we see a very heavy rainfall over the ocean after passing George Town and South Sound. For some reason I am always fascinated how it can be raining in one area and bone dry somewhere else. These clouds seem to pass by only a small area and drop their loads.<\/p>\n

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Alright … i’m tired and going to take a nap like this guy on this sunny saturday afternoon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Each time a hurricane, or even a tropical storm\/depression comes close to Grand Cayman, all the residents prepare and brace for the worst.\u00a0\u00a0 However, those who live in South Sound near the water probably worry a bit more.\u00a0 You see, the street is no more (my estimation) than 4ft above sea level, so any surge […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1113,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}