Tie Your Mother Down

So wind event (event - like a party?) of the decade is supposed to happen today and tomorrow.

NOAA headline:
Strong Santa Ana Wind Event With Damaging Winds Expected
Stron Santa Ana Wind Event with Damaging Winds Expected
NOAA discussion:
THE REAL INTERESTING WEATHER HITS OVERNIGHT WEDNESDAY. THE INSIDE
SLIDER WILL PINCH OFF INTO A CUT OFF LOW AND THEN MIGRATE TO THE
AZ/CA BORDER (GFS) CENTRAL AZ (WRF) OR THE SALTON SEA (EC) THE GFS
SOLN WOULD GENERATE THE STRONGEST WINDS THE EC THE WEAKEST AND THE WRF SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE.

Love the terms...
Pinch off?
Cut off?
Migrate?

Pinch off being my favorite.

Zihua Lighting in SoCal

Amazing lighting this time of year.
Reminds us of the lighting in Zihuatanejo in the late afternoons.

Makes the rain not so hideous.
Actually, I like rain.
Tropical rain though...
Not this cold stuff.

Love the East winds after ~ 72 degrees in the cockpit at 9:00 am!

Solar Panels In and Rockin'!

Free electricity!

Yeah, well after you pay for the panels.
The metal fabrication.
The wire.
Jim's time.
Free electricity!

Sick Minds...

So after exploring the lowlands in a hurricane.

Eating 47 lbs of peel and eat shrimp.

And having a "few".

We played games.

If you don't know how to play "Apples to Apples" google it.

And once you do or did, you will wonder about the people I was playing this game with.

Festering wounds, chewy?

I'm not even going there.

Electric eels, chewy?

Well maybe bad normal eels in a bad sushi bar...

New shoes, chewy?

Maybe to a dog...

Underwear?

Eeew.... sick minds.

Suzie & KIrby's Backyard Berries

Can't remember what these are.
Just loved the color and rain drop.

And the fact the hurricane didn't wipe them and us out.

Cool Charleston Bridge

Ocean Catamarans No More...

Seven years of owning this catamaran.
Seven years of "talking" about going to the builder's facility.
Seven years of checking their website.
Seven years of "let's go visit my brother in NC and drive down to SC".
Blah, blah, blah.
So seven years into this, just before we fly to SC Jim checks their website.
No more...
Gone.
Done.
No website.
Kirby maps it out and we drive in the pouring rain from island to island.
Over low lying bridges.
Through flooded streets.
More bridges.
More rain.

To this:

Closed Ocean Catamarans.