Alas, even I who am generally fearless--or maybe just bored with all the hurricane hype.
But friday night, when all these locals kept coming and asking me what I was going to do, how it was going to hit hard, 'not since 1937...', and more importantly, if I was going to evacuate etc., even I started worrying.
No one ever evacuates Key West who lives here. I have no intention unless guys with guns come. But it does make me nervous when the locals start talking that way.
Then the guy who lives downstairs--who has some sort of nautical license, does tourist boating stuff, etc. came in and said "It's going to hit, I know the currents, etc. etc., but I'm staying".
That's when I started to get scared of Ike.
But one guy was a bit smarter. Friday at the end when we were closing he said if it hits Cuba it wouldn't be a problem.
While I'm not ignorant of geography, I was looking at the relative sizes of Cuba and the peninsular area of florida--they are roughly the same.
Of more importance is the fact that unlike Florida, Cuba has mountainous areas which do more to deflate the hurricanes. Plus if it sweeps up the center of Cuba lengthwise that's a lot of drag on it.
So now everyone is relaxing. I was going to run around getting the hurricane stuff I didn't get for Fay or whatever her name was that wasn't three weeks ago, monday morning, but now it looks like I can relax as well.
But I found the best site for hurricane tracking!
http://www.wunderground.com/tropical...od=v5d#a_topad
Check out the "GFDL Model Run" map at the lower part, it's cool!
The ones to pay attention to are the computer models and the tracking, but all the little maps enlarge when you click on them. They update the maps a lot.



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