T.S. Hanna lurks in the Bahamas off of the Florida coast moving to the NNW towards the Carolinas, but no one in Florida is worried about her. They are looking beyond Hanna to a Cat 4 hurricane called Ike - a simple name for such a potent storm. And I can tell you that the people
in Miami are extremely concerned as it appears from the latest model runs shown here.
One can only hope and pray that the steering currents in the atmosphere will turn Ike to the northeast of South Florida and take it into the central Atlantic. As you can see from the
5:00 p.m. forecast track from the National Hurricane Center, it doesn't look good. All I can say at this point is, stay tuned for further developments.
We will start flying Ike on Saturday with one of our P-3s and the hight-altitude Gulfstream jet. Both will be operating from St. Croix, one of our forward bases in the Caribbean. Will I go along? It all depends on what the track looks like tomorrow. If Miami is still in the cross-hairs of Ike, my place is at home there, and there I shall be to prepare the house and pick up the pieces. I hope that such an event does not become part of this blog.
More to come.
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