{"id":490,"date":"2008-08-26T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=490"},"modified":"2008-08-27T08:24:47","modified_gmt":"2008-08-27T13:24:47","slug":"hurricane-gustav-update-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Gustav &#8211; Update 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav is now moving west and will pass north of Jamaica.  Then &#8230; who knows.  Current forecasts have the eye of the storm passing about 95 miles from Grand Cayman and much, much closer to the sister islands (Cayman Brac &amp; Little Cayman)<\/p>\n<p>A work colleague showed me a new &amp; pretty neat hurricane tracking site called StormPulse (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stormpulse.com\">www.stormpulse.com<\/a>) A screen shot can be seen below with the path of Gustav passing above Grand Cayman  ; hopefully.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pulse.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-491\" title=\"pulse\" src=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pulse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pulse.jpg 481w, https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/pulse-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This afternoon after work, I right away went to fill up the car and the 3-gallon canister with gas.  Last time there was a big hurricane, it took a while before the stations opened since the most pumps had been damaged and the ones able to open had massive lineups. I&#8217;ll also be putting up the rest of the shutters and start putting in the garage the BBQ and other outside items.  I also went to top up our supply kit with diet coke, canned sausages &amp; other such items. We still had some from last year, so all-in-all we are in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>More later &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gustav is now moving west and will pass north of Jamaica. Then &#8230; who knows. Current forecasts have the eye of the storm passing about 95 miles from Grand Cayman and much, much closer to the sister islands (Cayman Brac &amp; Little Cayman) A work colleague showed me a new &amp; pretty neat hurricane tracking [&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-490","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\/490","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=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}