2017-09-09

On Again Off Again

Irma's projected path as of 11 pm Friday September 8, 2017
So Irma has shifted and will likely provide little more than outer bands to South Carolina. Given the exceedingly inaccurate forecasts of the storm path I pretty much am left not knowing what to feel.

After trudging through about 20 stores looking for distilled water I was all prepared to chug the tap stuff as required and just see what happens when a chance trip to the Walmart grocery on Knox Abbott Drive revealed a fortuitous cache of gallon jugs of the distilled stuff I like. I now feel that I'm packing all the water that I need after leaving just 4 jugs on the store shelf.

We're on operational shutdown for Monday. I was hoping to avoid this, but they are being proactive on the safety front and don't want to risk employee accidents and so forth. My worst fear in all this hurricaine mess has been realized.

I hope that everyone else escapes the storm as well as I have. It is my understanding that hurricaine systems loose a lot of energy passing over land and the latest path is miles inland and on the western side of the eastern continental divide ... This likely means there will be even less impact from rising rivers and streams as the bulk of the water is shed down the western slope.

The unpredictability of the weather appears to remain despite the technology and modeling at our disposal.