{"id":3424,"date":"2017-09-05T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T01:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2024-11-18T09:22:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T14:22:31","slug":"hurricane-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Irma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you have heard about Hurricane Irma. \u00a0 As of typing, Antigua, St-Kitts, Anguilla & Virgin Islands are about to get a beating by this massive Category 5 storm. I cannot stress enough how bad a Category 5 storm can be. Its been a few years since I have even spoken about a hurricane – that was nice. As a reminder, here is a visual depiction of the hurricane categories.<\/p>\n

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As you can see, anything category 3-4-5 is no joke!<\/p>\n

Ok the good news first: The Cayman Islands, minus some rain this coming week-end should spared, unless some unexpected turn happens soon. \u00a0However, the general consensus of forecasts are for it to continue going north-west towards Puerto Rico, the Turks & Caicos Islands, Bahamas and then possibly Florida.<\/p>\n

Map is below – Cayman is, as of right now out of the danger zone. \u00a0(see red arrow – lower left)<\/p>\n

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The bad news: My friends in \u00a0the BVI, USVI will have a really bad day Wednesday. \u00a0So is the island of St-Kitts which was the subject of my last post. \u00a0 Anegada in the BVI, \u00a0which is the last post on this page, will also get a beating. \u00a0It is low lying and has been completely evacuated. \u00a0 \u00a0I have a really bad feeling about this system ; I am genuinely worried. \u00a0Another reason I am worried: I am right now in the Turks & Caicos Islands – see blue arrow. \u00a0Ooops! \u00a0So I was supposed to be here all week till Saturday and on the smaller island of Grand Turk. So this morning, as part of my escape, I flew to the main island of Providenciales. \u00a0Tomorrow, Wednesday I am supposed to fly to Kingston Jamaica from \u00a0where I can catch a flight to Grand Cayman. \u00a0 That is assuming the flight even leaves – so far I am optimistic since Jamaica is out of the danger zone. \u00a0 Ill post more as this unfolds!<\/p>\n

So here in Providenciales (“Provo”) people are prepping. \u00a0Here are some things I saw today.<\/p>\n

Sandbags are popping up all over the place. \u00a0 This is at the airport.<\/p>\n

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At the grocery store. \u00a0Lots of people, \u00a0but no panic or masses. \u00a0 Water is being purchased a LOT. \u00a0Stores have put all of their stock right near the entrance and many people are leaving with a few of these.<\/p>\n

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Lots of places have their shutters up. \u00a0This one of the local groceries. \u00a0These are made of transparent lexan.<\/p>\n

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Same kind, but in metal.<\/p>\n

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So to wrap up this post, here are some nice pictures I took on the island of Grand Turk this morning and yesterday. \u00a0Grand Turk is a small island with +-5,000 people. \u00a0Ill be thinking about my friends there when the storm hits sometime Thursday PM assuming current forecast holds true.<\/p>\n

The ocean front – the ocean was sooooo calm this week.<\/p>\n

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Lots of lovely pink flamingos – hope they will be OK \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

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The wild donkeys I have featured a few times in the past! These guys should be fine. \u00a0Their instinct will make them seek higher ground!<\/p>\n

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The sunset last night – really nice.<\/p>\n

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And finally a beautiful \u00a0rainbow this morning as I was checking out of the hotel. \u00a0Maybe this is a good omen? \u00a0I hope so.<\/p>\n

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More posts soon. \u00a0 Hopefully from Kingston Jamaica tomorrow night.<\/p>\n

Please keep the folks in the affected nations in your thoughts!<\/p>\n

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Unless you have been living under a rock, I am sure you have heard about Hurricane Irma. \u00a0 As of typing, Antigua, St-Kitts, Anguilla & Virgin Islands are about to get a beating by this massive Category 5 storm. I cannot stress enough how bad a Category 5 storm can be. Its been a few […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","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\/3424","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=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3447,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/3447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}