Hurricane Rina (which is to the south and west of us right now) is giving all of us stomach acid as it does a long slow semi circle around us. One little move and we are in the cone and on alert so we have to watch each update closely. And now invest 97 L in the eastern Caribbean is beginning to form and its track takes it toward us as well. The first map below from NHC shows the two storms with Rina already formed and 97L the orange circular area. Right now it has a 30% chance of forming a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours. The second map shows the semicircle track of Rina. We are the island in the southern quadrant below Cuba with the 5 day uncertainty cone basically going across the tip of West Bay. Whether we actually get hit or not we continue to get a ton of rain with nowhere for it to runoff. Our parking lot has two large lakes though so far at least our parking spaces aren't being affected too much. The house is 4-5 feet above the parking lot so it hasn't had any issues either. The college is a lake with any area that isn't built up underwater. The buildings are fine so far but other than the buildings and the raised sidewalks and parking lots everything else has at least a 1/2 foot to 1 foot of water and the field has a couple of feet. Yesterday egrets and ducks took advantage of Lake ICCI as a temporary home. Classes went on as normal last night but we are now day to day. Arianna is taking it in stride sleeping through a loud thunder and lightning storm late last night just doing her normal every three hours wake ups. I still remember her mommy sleeping through the loudest parts of Dean and Gustav without an issue so hopefully she inherited that from her.
Update with new map that gives a good idea of distances:
