Monthly Archives: September 2019

Deja Vu, Not

So, we have another storm out there, and while the early track showed it making landfall right here, the latest shows it staying far offshore, but with the same arc as Dorian.  Hoping it skips the northern Bahamas, and us. … Continue reading

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Perfect Day

  More hurricane minutiae, this time with a purpose.  Surfers love hurricanes, even old decrepit surfers, who can’t help themselves.  We see something form in the far Atlantic, or Caribbean, and we start envisioning what might come our way.  Of … Continue reading

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Dorian Takaways

We got brushed by a major storm, and we’d like to make a few comparisons with other storms which came close.  Matthew came by considerably closer in 2016, and absolutely devastated our beach, washing out pieces of A1A and rearranging … Continue reading

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Final Dorian Update

It’s gone!  It’s up east of Jacksonville late this afternoon.  And we got off easy.  We had a brief period of intense rain and wind last night, less than an hour, the wind sustained at maybe 45 mph, driving the … Continue reading

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Dorian Update #4

We’re all buttoned up here at The Little Hacienda, AKA The Little Bunker, but it looks like we may have dodged this bullet.  After several days over the Bahamas, Dorian finally started north and northwest this morning, crawling out at … Continue reading

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Dorian Update #3

So, this amazing hurricane has essentially parked itself just east of Freeport in the Bahamas.  Showing one mph progress to the west until the 5 pm advisory, when it went stationary.  This is really good news for us, because the … Continue reading

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Dorian Update #2

Pretty blustery here today, but a beautiful sunrise with stacked cumulous and intermittent showers all day.  The storm has gained strength; now a Cat 5, and slowing to a crawl over the northern Bahamas.  Still forecast to turn north as … Continue reading

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