Friday, November 7, 2008

Stuck in Florida

We arrived in Miami yesterday morning and by late afternoon discovered that Hurricane Paloma would be coming to Grand Cayman and that there was no way we can get back before the storm. We are dealing with a group of 20 very worried students but there is nothing any of us can do. This late season storm gave very little warning of rapid intensification and no warning of its path. On Tuesday it looked like it would go over Central America and even Wednesday had multiple tracks. We are just happy we put all the shutters back up just in case and unplugged all the electronics and moved the computer upstairs. Since there is nothing we can do we will head up to Orlando tomorrow to see Scott's brother and his wife and our neice and nephew. We know now the feeling of helplessness that comes with not being able to do anything about our house, our car (which is sitting at the airport long term parking lot) and most importantly our cats.