Hurricane Frances Thursday

 


Our first Hurricane: Frances will hit us on Satuday morning. Miami Beach is being evacuated. We also have to leave. We will be staying at a friend in Coral Gables.

you can check the track on those 2 websites:
Miami Herald (it is free to sign in)
National Hurricane Center

and as due to evacuation I won't be able to give a video live feed from our appartement here are some webcams
Miami Webcams

Here is the blog:

Thursday, 4pm, the wind is picking up. We stocked up on water and cookies. Fueled up Volvochen.There are long lines at gas stations. Some gas stations are already out of gas. All toll roads are free of charge.Long lines in grocerie stores. The only water left in the shelves. Perrier for $2 per liter. I hope I will manage to run out and take some more pictures in Miami Beach. We have to start securing all our nice toys, computers, Tivo... trying to put everything as high as possible in case our place gets flooded. We have decided we will leave our appartement tomorrow in the morning and head out to a friends house in Coral Gables. So guess no more blog then. But I will update as soon as possible.

Thursday, noon, mendatory evacuation of Miami Beach starting 4 pm today. So guess I won't be able to report all the way life trough this storm. We are going out now to do our emergency shopping. Later to the beach.

Wednesday, September 1st, 6:30 pm They tell Patricia that work will close for the next 2 days. Don't come back till Tuesday. In Germany they would call it "Hurricanfrei"
Our friends Claudinha and Jorge are supposed to arrive Saturday morning from Brazil. I guess their flight is very questionable. Latest news say that 300.000 people are being evacuated. But there is still a good chance that the hurricane will turn and head north. It has done it in the past. Come back often for updates, hopefully some pics and maybe a life webcast via yahoo messenger...


 

Thursday: long lines at gas stations



Thursday: different ways to secure windows (I would say the left one is better)



Thursday: water, cans, flashlight and candles... empty shelves