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- Earl, Fiona, Gaston... keep a good eye out in the BVI!
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 12:32:32 EDT
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Hurricane Earl seem to want to take his Virgin Island spirit to the outer
banks of North Carolina, then on to perhaps Massachusetts. With 140mph
winds, I feel sorry for the folks making a hasty evacuation. Labor Day weekend,
coming up is usually their last big vacation and holiday weekend before summer
is stashed away for another year.
Tropical Storm Fiona has decided to perhaps go visit Bermuda.
And Tropical Storm Gaston... he is totally undecided about his fate!
Has anyone heard or seen reports or pictures about Bitter End and
Biras Creek on Virgin Gorda?
Personally, I think he should have welcomed any
offers of outside help with open arms. My gosh, they still have roads torn up
from the floods of 7 years ago! That old derelict wrecked boat at the
Sandspit has been there more than a decade, since another hurricane long past. I
know islanders are resilient and have a can-do attitude, but why not clean it
all up with a real thoroughness and graciously accept outside help.
One major problem after a hurricane or storm or
flood, is the displaced garbage that turns up every where, on the shores, in the
mangroves, on the beaches and so on. Some boat owners will simply abandon
their wrecks where they are, leaving it up to whoever to do something or in many
cases, nothing about it. Let's bring the beauty back to the BVI as quickly as
possible.
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- Hurricane Fiona was a non event GOOD!!!!
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:50:58 EDT
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Fiona passed with out making herself known to us. We had a sunny day
with no rain and the evening was a bit cloudy but no more than we would
occasionally see. As I have been living on Snack food and fruits and warm
beer for several days and was WAYYYey tooooo tired ( I was pooped), to cook for
myself the first night back on da good ship... I went to the Red Rock Cafe at
Penn's Landing and had a nice dinner. Had a great Mushroom Soup.... (no
these were not the same mushrooms from Bamba Shack!!!)...and Caribbean Chicken
Breast. Had a large bottle of sparkling Water... nope did not even have a
hard drink. I was so tired and probably a bit dehydrated from getting the
dink back in the water and putting the outboard back on I was too thirsty to
even consider a hard drink. Well I will have to admit I did have a
Sundowner a couple of hours before on da boat.
The night was very calm with just a little breeze and winds continued to
shift from North to North West to South West to South and back around. We
are now a bit South East at about 6 to 8 knots with a little roll in the bay
from the South West. Seas are 2 to 3 feet may get higher in the Sir
Francis Drake Channel later.
One thing that is very obvious with our recent brush with Earl... the
mountains have changed color or colour is you wish. They are now showing a
brown tone. This is from both Wind Burn (100 MPH winds do that!), and
damage from the salty sea spray and rain. While we had lots of foliage
stripped off, more will soon drop from the wind burn and salt spray and not just
near the water but well up the mountains... all the way to the ridge tops here
in East End. They do not show up on Photos yet but in a day or two I'll
bet I can get one that shows what the eye can already see.
Gaston looks dangerous. Everyone is holding their breath wishing him
away. On present track he could hit us directly or possibly worst pass to
our West, giving us the worst of the storm force. Still too early to know
but no one is undoing the storm prep we did for Earl. I did put my Cockpit
cover back up for shade but with out the solar cells. Later today I may
attempt to rig one on the rail or deck to give the batteries some power and ease
up on the Honda 2000i that is pumping its little heart out to allow me some
charge time and a few electrical appliances I have aboard including da
computer!
more later
da Wayward Sailor
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- Wow
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:19:38 EDT
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WOW, you can see the bowling balls rolling off Africa, coming down
hurricane alley...
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- Keep an eye out for Gaston and Hermine
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 06:50:48 EDT
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The Tropical Storm spaghetti projections for Gaston is all over the place.
The bad news is he has slowed down movement to 9 miles per hour. This is not
good. It gives him time to stew and possibly build up into a hurricane.  Winds are currently at
about 40mph, location 13.5 N 38.2 W, 1550 miles east of the Lesser Antilles.
Right on his heals is the future Hermine?  This looks like a cozy foursome golf game coming off of Africa, FORE! 
On a sad note, a friend called from Ecuador to say her boat was among one
of the heavily damaged, in pictures from West End. She thought someone else was
taking care of it, and was a bit shocked to see it wrecked. 
My phones, both cell and Skype.com has been so busy, as has my email.
A few times my email program crashed and the laptop screamed "STOP! My
memory is overloaded!" as I tried to look at webcams, satellites, instant
messages, weather news, pictures, videos and so on.
My puppy, Houdini
Harley, was super patient while he was being totally ignored. I put him out
on his tether and thought he was being very quiet, as usually I hear the squeak
of his toys, or him romping around with his soccer ball. Then I realized he had
somehow opened up the carabineer on the tether and run off to play at the
neighbor's!
Finally I took him out for a really nice long walk, then another
friend of his came back from a 3 day trip, with a treasured tennis ball for him
to play with, so he was able to slip back into his spoiled-rotten mode.  Mostly he likes to lay
right beside me as I type, but sometimes he crawls up on the desk to say
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- OhMyGadda, Watch out Anegada!
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 00:27:03 EDT
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Another one coming off Africa, chasing after Tropical storm Gaston (could
that be the future Hermine?) .... tis the season! Fa la la la la la!
Earl is looking at North Carolina as a possibility...
Fiona is moving quickly Northwestward, passing the BVI, while
peeing along the way...
Gaston is setting his sights like a bowling ball, undecided which pins
(islands) he's knocking around in his path...
Stick around folks, this could get interesting...
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- 27 pictures from HURRICANE EARL in the BVI
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 18:27:49 EDT
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BIG thank you to the fabulous photographer who so generously supplied these
photos of West End, Tortola, Frenchmens Cay and Sopers Hole.
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- Earl, Fiona and Gaston, busy week of storms in the BVI
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:50:55 EDT
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Keep your eyes on Tropical Storm Gaston, I don't trust this boy one bit,
and my crystal ball doesn't like him either!
Looks stormy from Jost to Tortola, as FIONA passes by.
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- Back on Board
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- By DearMissMermaid at aol.com
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 17:34:51 EDT
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