Lets keep our fingers crossed for something fun to happen. *:-)


Allllll Righty then! NOW we're cooking with gas. :-)

Just went outside, and man is it a typhoon! Winds are coming right up
the harbor, straight up the slot, and the waves are 10-20 feet
tall....these are waves where its usually just 2-3 inches of
nothingness. The waves are SLAMMING into the breakwater, breaking sky
high, and the winds are so hard that the spray is flying right into
the front of my flat, which is back about 50 feet and up on what
Americans call the second floor, but the rest of the world calls the
first floor (one above the Ground floor). The winds are
howling....steady at about 60 mph with gusts closer to 90. Trees are
flailing around like hay, signs are blowing down the road, alarms are
going off in every other building, branches are breaking and getting
rolled down the street, and at one point I had to hold on to the
handrail on the breakwater as the wind and waves were so strong they
threatened to knock me down. In the alley in front of my house
(Stanley Main St), the windtunnel effect is so strong that I can
barely make headway, and feel like I'm about to get lifted right off
my feet.

And the storm is strengthening! And most impressive of all....its been
downgraded to a Tropical Storm, so its not even a Typhoon any more.
WOW. Its ONLY a T9....what the HELL is a T10 like????

I'm going to dry off, have a cup of coffee, and go out in it again.
Its blowing so hard, its scary. I LOVE this stuff. :-)

--riverman