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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 11:39 am |
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Dolly is downgraded to a tropical depression, leaving quite a bit of structural damage as well as death (Guatamala is said to have had 17 Dolly related deaths) in her wake.
Cristabol is gone.
97L has been dropped.
Yesterday, the sky was brilliant blue, filled with many cotton ball white towering clouds. Eventually, those clouds darkened and it looked like MAYBE there would be rain, but apparently it all went to the big island, leaving us hot and parched, even in the midst of a beautiful day. Today looks to be a copy of that.
A friend drove by me at the cart, yelling out her window that if I wanted a shower I better head home as the water was being shut off within the hour. This is not unusual during a holiday weekend (nor is running out of gasoline, etc. and yesterday was a first when the bank ran out of ones, the rush before four days of no banking) and this is a four day, last blast of summer weekend here in PR, but doesn't usually happen until Saturday or Sunday, sometimes Friday, but not on Thursday!
Later in the day I was told, by someone who went to the Water Dept. to see what was going on, that we are on water rationing, as the water situation on the big island is very low, due to lack of rain. I'm not sure what the hours are right now; that is today's mission. I thought the water was coming on at 6 a.m. but apparently not, as now I'm down to a bit more than a trickle.
Today's holiday is Commonwealth Constitution Day, An official Commonwealth of Puerto Rico holiday. S Formerly called Occupation Day, commemorating the anniversary of the landing of American troops at Guinica in 1898.
Sunday is the birthday of Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa. Dr. José Celso Barbosa (1857–1921) was a medical doctor and an early advocate of statehood, founder of the Republican Party on the Island.
Most of us older types who live here do what we need to do in town and then get home to let visitors have the town & beaches. Soon enough we'll come back out again and get our favorite bar stools back, along with our favorite beach spots, as August goes quiet. May it stay that way weather wise as well (eyes to the east and whatever that rather large, slightly swirly looking blob off Africa does or does not become).
Hopefully I'll get a shower rather than a trickle before going to town, but a trickle will work! Oh wait, hooray! It's back on...my shoppers will be thankful and so am I!
Shhh, don't tell the orchids about the water situation...
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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Fri Jul 25th, 2008 07:42 pm |
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Afternoon update:
The blob off Africa is poofed, while 97L came back to life. The good news, as mentioned, is that 97L is now around 18.3 (just about even with us) but hundreds of miles to the east and expected to move wnw or nw on the track, hopefully ending up a fish storm and bothering no one. We'll see what happens.
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Posted: Sat Jul 26th, 2008 10:28 am |
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"Charming" summary of this year's July madness. Hope you all have nice places to hole up and that Paradox survives the onslaught of revelry....
Photo specially nice, Island Woman
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