{"id":552,"date":"2008-08-28T19:26:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T00:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=552"},"modified":"2008-08-28T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T00:52:49","slug":"hurricane-gustav-update-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=552","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Gustav – Update 8"},"content":{"rendered":"

Offices are closed and supermarkets are relatively full of people. Some lineups at the gas stations ; glad I filled up the other day!<\/p>\n

One thing I noticed on my drive to the office a few moments ago to bring my supplies is that there seems to have been lots of car accidents today ; I saw at least 3 cars on the side of the road with significant damage. Probably due to people being stressed out with the storm. Unless absolutely necessary, ill be staying in for the rest of the day.\u00a0 Along for my drive, I took some pictures.<\/p>\n

Here is one of Cayman Airways 737-300\u2019s taking off for Miami. The new Cayman airways livery (AKA paint job) looks great in my opinion! They are evacuating lots of people today.<\/p>\n

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Here is the same roundabout as the previous post a few hours ago ; its now full of cars as I had expected.Notice that some even put car covers on theirs for additional protection.<\/p>\n

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This was a odd site ; The “mosquito planes”.\u00a0 These planes are used to spray mosquito stuff to control the populations.\u00a0 Quick history bit : many years ago, there were so many mosquitoes that Cayman was dubbed “Mosquito island”.\u00a0 Now it is controlled in many ways, including with these planes that buzz around at very low altitude around sunset most days of the week. Notice that they are tied down with chains.<\/p>\n

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Finally … I feel sorry for these guys. A local bank made this “roundabout decoration” and has not even finished it.\u00a0 Those palms were planted about 1 week ago (they are propped up with stilts)\u00a0 Unfortunately, after a hurricane I would be very surprised if these were still standing. Lets hope I am wrong.<\/p>\n

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Just before making this post, a neighbor brought me some sea salt (she owns a sea salt business) and two perfectly ripe mangoes!\u00a0 Talk about a morale booster.\u00a0 The mangoes were fabulous.\u00a0 I have great neighbors \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 Their website for the Cayman Sea salt is http:\/\/www.caymanseasalt.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Offices are closed and supermarkets are relatively full of people. Some lineups at the gas stations ; glad I filled up the other day! One thing I noticed on my drive to the office a few moments ago to bring my supplies is that there seems to have been lots of car accidents today ; […]<\/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-552","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\/552","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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":557,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}