Thursday September 1st 2016

It is around 6PM as I’m writing this blog entry. The first wave of wind and rain that is rotating around hurricane Hermine is about 30 minutes away. I’ve spent the day wondering why am I here.

It has been cloudy, calm and very humid all day. The rain has held off to a few short and light showers. I’ve finally found a TV meteorologist that I think I can understand. He is on the non network news focused channel 4. He does a much better job of explaining what is happening and explaining the potential developments that will be coming than the other forecasters on the network channels. Perhaps if I’d been listening to this guy, I’d have known when and where to move to get out of the path of the storm. As I mentioned the other day, if I’d moved at the beginning of the week I’d have moved from the frying pan into the fire. Not moving northwest was a good decision. That is where the storm is currently tracking.

Dull cloudy, but very humid day before the storm.

Other travelers seem to be equally confused or storm challenged. Four new RVs arrived at the campground this afternoon. I’m not sure what direction they were traveling in, but I am surprised that people would stop here before the storm arrived. With my current understanding of the storm I’d get as far south as I could before stopping. However, while traveling it would be very difficult to develop that understanding. I’d probably end up stopping in a strange place as well. Hopefully, this isn’t the wrong place.

I’ve retracted both of the motorhome’s slide-out rooms. This reduces the amount of room in the RV, but it provides one less set of things for the wind to get in and cause damage. At the very least it will make it quieter inside. The flapping of the fabric slide toppers is annoying even in a light wind.

The storm is forecast to last until tomorrow afternoon. It doesn’t even come ashore in the big bend area of Florida until midnight. Bands of wind and rain will be passing through all night and Friday morning. I don’t anticipate getting much sleep.