{"id":214,"date":"2007-08-19T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2007-08-19T06:55:01","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T11:55:01","slug":"hurricane-dean-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Dean &#8211; update 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its sunday morning and still beautiful outside ; so strange to know that in less than 24h some massive system will roll thru here. Julie and I\u00a0are now\u00a0full prepared;\u00a0the house is secure (see below) and only have a few odd things to do.\u00a0 All our important stuff is now in my office.\u00a0Other items such as our TV are high up and covered\u00a0with plastic tarps. \u00a0We will also go to a neighbors place this morning\u00a0to help them uninstall their large satellite dish.\u00a0 Aipa, our dog,\u00a0spent the night with some friends and will stay there for the hurricane ; my office permits pets but only if they are in a cage at all times.\u00a0 Aipa hates here cage, so it seemed cruel to leave here in there for maybe up to 48 hours.\u00a0 She is staying with a co-worker of mine who&#8217;s house did very well in the Category-5 hurricane Ivan in 2004.\u00a0 Bijou, our bird, wil be coming with us since here is quite used to being in his cage \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Around noon we shall go to my office since they are expecting rain to start later today and a curfew has been imposed as of tonight. I will try to make a final update tonight before they cut off the power; they will cut it as soon as there are hurricane force winds.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of the windows boarded up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_4213.jpg\" title=\"img_4213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_4213.jpg\" alt=\"img_4213.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The TV and other items under the tarp in case water comes in via the roof (or lack of &#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_4212.jpg\" title=\"img_4212.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/img_4212.jpg\" alt=\"img_4212.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here is the latest forcasted path.\u00a0 The multple lines are various organisations who make computer models.\u00a0 They seem to all agree that the storm is moving south, a bit away from Cayman.\u00a0 It is still a very dangerous storm though and we are expecting a rough ride.\u00a0 We need it to go much more south than this for it to make a significant difference. Its would now pass 60 or so miles south of Grand Cayman.\u00a0 At 150 miles away, I am told it would make a huge difference &#8230; lets wait and see.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/at2007041_model.gif\" title=\"at2007041_model.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/at2007041_model.gif\" alt=\"at2007041_model.gif\" height=\"376\" style=\"width: 533px; height: 376px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its sunday morning and still beautiful outside ; so strange to know that in less than 24h some massive system will roll thru here. Julie and I\u00a0are now\u00a0full prepared;\u00a0the house is secure (see below) and only have a few odd things to do.\u00a0 All our important stuff is now in my office.\u00a0Other items such as [&hellip;]<\/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-214","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\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}