Not to forget what is truly important: HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM and HAPPY ANNIVERSERY to the most incredible woman I have ever met: My wife, Wendy. I am grateful for whatever bout of foolishness you fell prey to when you agreed to marry me. I will forever try to live up to the measure of the man you see in me.

Anyway; Mostly, these entries are for friends and family who want to track the progress of (Hurricane Frances) the storm. I am tracking the hurricane using Microsoft Streets and Maps so that local landmarks are more visible to those who need to know, and because I can draw handy radius circles on the screen to show people where hurricane force winds will be and where you certainly don't want to be.

Current Map and Photo of Hurricane Frances

Wendy and Danny are outside putting up the wavy fiberglass window shutters that were made for our windows, and I am about to cut a piece of fiberboard to fit over the new window that does not have one. Yes, I know fiberboard will come apart in wet weather, but it will last this one storm and then I will toss it out. I need proper shutters for the front window.

It looks like the storm will be far enough North of us that we'll just get bad weather at this point, maybe hurricane force winds, maybe gale force winds. We shall see.

The servers should be just fine, they are in a poured concrete bunker, so this website should remain up even though it is closer to where the hurricane will make landfall than we are.

The blue flag on the map is us, the red flag is my friend and employee Rob Miller, who is much worse off than we are.

I have to get to work. I'll post another update shortly after 5 p.m., when the non-interpolated data is released from NOAA.

Posted by Michael at September 2, 2004 02:04 PM