Erika's visit was, yawn, not so eventful. She gave me little to write about. Her path took her over the Dominican Republic and Haiti. She was always a disorganized storm (whatever that means) and the mountains of the island were her downfall. Erika never got to hurricane status and just drifted to the west of Florida as a bunch of thunderstorms.
The evacuation of Broad Key was scheduled for Saturday. Evan (supervisor) came out to help finish preparations and to provide assistance with the boat move to a trailer. Before he got here the University of Miami public safety folks decided Erika was not going to be a major threat and cancelled the evacuation. Evan came out anyway and we did a final buttoning up of the island. After all, we were still expecting heavy rain and some wind.
Saturday night through Sunday were to be "heavy weather". I waited and waited. The island did get about 2" of rain and at one point it rained at about 4.5 in/hr. But I experienced barely a breeze. Nothing...
These things are so unpredictable.
However...
Hear ye, hear ye!
Coming from the stormy east coast of Africa
The hurricane incubator that gave us Danny and Erika
Comes Fred!
My bet is that Fred doesn't really get going at all. We shall see.
cz, 1200 Aug. 31, 2015
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