Hurricane Warning: Rita in the Keys

Since I've become more involved in the Red Cross, I've gotten more into my "Weather Geeking" hobby. Right now I have a live webcam from the Northwest corner of Key West streaming - WITH SOUND. It is awesome - you can hear the wind, see the wind and watch the water and a large boat bobbing up and down. Unfortunately, I also see a handful of people walking around from time to time :( Be safe everyone!

I'm also keeping an eye on the Monroe County, (FL Keys), Emergency Operations Center, (EOC) for alerts. They just posted storm surge/flooding updates.

TLC Art Director John Noe is in Tavernier, FL south of Key Largo. He still has Internet access & power. I can't believe he stayed but luckily there's a "last resort" shelter, (ie you should have evacuated when we made it mandatory but since you didn't...), less than 1/2 a mile down the road from him at the Dept of Health. He's taken 20+ pictures that I've placed on Flickr for him. Be safe John!!

Daily Red Cross & Rita

Another long day. Didn't do much at Red Cross except train a new batch of Bank of American employees to enter forms. Then while working on some forms myself I helped reinstall a desktop running Windows 2000 for one of the regional offices.

Just took a look at the BAMD Model for Rita and in 96 hours it puts the damn storm less than 5mi WSW of the Houston Astrodome. Quelle Surprise. *sigh*

I signed up for a bunch more courses that include Shelter Simulation, On the Scene, First Aid, and EOC Liaison. I've also signed on to be "on call" with a Disaster Action Team, (DAT), for Monday-night call-outs to fires. Should be interesting.

Dull post....I'm tired and a bit lethargic. Besides, I think my Red Cross talk has stopped you all from reading my journal anyway. ;)