Woke up to another beautiful day. Sunny and a little breezy and perfect for a day at the beach. The thing with these storms is before they arrive the weather is beautiful.
Checked in for the latest forecast. Looks like Ivan is being steered by a high pressure area over the Atlantic, which has held strong and pushed the storm a little to the west. If it continued in that pattern that would be better news for the Bay Area, however, not so good for the panhandle of our state.
The bad thing is the storm appears to have slowed a bit. As it approaches Cuba, if it remains on course but slowed down, it will be going into the gulf but farther out so where if it remained that way, we would get more tropical force winds similar to last weekend with Frances. Those winds were enough to down many trees, flood the area and have several million without power for up to a week.
The other side of all this they say, is there is a low pressure area coming down from the mid north west. If the storm slows long enough in the gulf for this to come down, then it could make it do a DIRECT turn into Florida the same way Charley did last month. So basically no area of the west coast is safe, which is making everyone very nervous. People are panicing, linking up 200-300 deep to buy every piece of plywood in the stores, batteries and anything hurricane related is in short supply.
We're going out to buy a new radio after lunch and see if we can find some plastic sheeting for the windows. Nothing like last minute. We're also going to go look for gas.
Off we go.
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