Key West and Hurricane Ivan

Thoughts on a turbulent morning as we all seem to cast our fate to the wind..

Not sure which way the wind will blow though Miami weather radio says we will have 25 to 30 knot winds out of the SW on Sunday/Monday..

Love looking in strange places for weather info and hints on the inside line.

From Key West weather discussion. Just about says it all

http://flhurricane.com/cyclone/wxstatement.php?t=AFD&m=09&d=09&y=2004&l=EYW

"THE LATEST MODELS STILL SHOW AN ENVELOPE OF ERROR FROM WELL WEST OF THE KEYS TO A TRACK THROUGH THE BAHAMAS. NO CHANGES PLANNED AT THIS TIME...FOR EITHER THE WEEKEND OR THE REMAINDER OF THE FORECAST PERIOD AS THE CONFIDENCE LEVEL IS NOT VERY HIGH."

So...now what?

The storm goes north at some point and as the savoir front from hell races in...stronger and faster with every passing weather forecast. It must be reading the models. It will try and go NE or NNE.

I remember Charley. I remember well the track I saw in my mind. Up through the lower to middle keys... up across the mid part of the state or maybe in the Thousand Island area.. or even up across the Lake.. Thought on that before I went to bed last night. Lake Ohkochobeeee, Lake Michigan, Lake Woebegone... woke up to the new track that takes Ivan straight up the middle of the state.

Charley to the left.
Frances to the right.
Ivan wants to do it right up the middle.

Thought on my daughter today... things you don't know.. her great grandmother was Anne Frank's aunt. She's a Frank on her paternal, maternal side. Loved Omi.. she has Omi's smile and Anne Frank's gift for writing and passion. A sweet dark hair, big eyed jewish girl that Reverand Ron would love to have had as a girlfriend, a daughter or a wife. Pick any, choose any... he had this thing for dark hair, dark eyed jewish girls. Rivky is something else. Hope she gets to go places that Anne never did.. She's named for a Ruth tho.. Rivky not Ruthie.. same difference.

Had a Light N Fit Strawberry Carb Control smoothie for breakfast. Got to use them up fast before the storm. 4 grams of strawberry flavor. Should make someone in the K family giggle.

Leslie is on her way to Texas..

Sharon forgot me on her way to work upset about her phone. Does that sometimes.. hard to explain. Will someone please buy her house before its blown away.

I had all these thoughts this morning and now they are gone..poof... writing and inspiration is like that.

Maybe I just can't believe we are going to get this storm and it won't just Flora like move away from Florida fast... NE chug chug chug..

Great song.. song for the day..dedicated to the future track of Ivan

STUCK IN THE MIDDLE WITH YOU (Stealers Wheel)
Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me,
Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you.
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
And I'm wondering what it is I should do,
It's so hard to keep this smile from my face,
Losing control, yeah, I'm all over the place,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Well you started out with nothing,
And you're proud that you're a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....
Trying to make some sense of it all,
But I can see that it makes no sense at all,
Is it cool to go to sleep on the floor,
'Cause I don't think that I can take anymore
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right,
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you.
Well you started out with nothing,
And you're proud that you're a self made man,
And your friends, they all come crawlin,
Slap you on the back and say,
Please.... Please.....
Well I don't know why I came here tonight,
I got the feeling that something ain't right,
I'm so scared in case I fall off my chair,
And I'm wondering how I'll get down the stairs,
Clowns to the left of me, Jokers to the right, here I am,
Stuck in the middle with you,
Yes I'm stuck in the middle with you,
Stuck in the middle with you.

You watch the storm... go to www.hurricanecity.com or www.flhurricane.com and tell me where you think the storm will go.... Tell me something I don't know.

http://orca.rsmas.miami.edu/wximages/jet/1_05/anis.html

Hoping somehow it misses Jamaica.. Makes a Jamaica Mistaka like it did the ABC islands.

A model... https://www.fnmoc.navy.mil/CGI/PUBLIC/wxmap_loop.cgi?area=ngp_troplant&prod=usf&dtg=2004090700

Take care.. talk later
Will try and write something definitive on my thoughts for the storm at lunch.
Right now I want to evacuate from North Miami Beach where downed tree limbs lie all over waiting to be flying missles during Ivan down to the safety and beauty of Old Key West.

Love Bobbi