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• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 17:59:10 -0300

meanwhile back at dodge(ing) city the boys in the backroom say that that
desperado "big issy"knows better than to mess around with us,so he took the
right fork at the pass and seems as if he'll end up north of the border.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 20:08:30 -0300

isaac shmisaac.
all that rain wasted on fish.

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:30:31 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 23:23:10 -0300

isaac it is.the first real one of the season.
boys in the backroom stopped snoring.
great chefs packing their knives away.

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 13:50:28 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 07:27:39 -0300

10n  20w  looks like a pitbull

• From: "ali fuller" <ali_fuller AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 22:09:08 GMT

this thing coming off africa at 10 degrees looks like it will turn into a 
strong storm.http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/SAB/TROP/DATA/img/atl/eatl/ir4/20.jpg

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• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:36:25 -0300

over 3 inches of rain.solid wind from s.e. between20&35 mph since 2
a.m.stopped about11 a.m. loverly.boys in backroom unrecognizable and
smeeling like roses!

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:17:07 -0400 (AST)

RAIN RAIN RAIN.... There was no wind at all in the Fort Road area but
torrential rainfall starting aroung 1:42AM. It has been raining for most
of the morning and it finally stopped about 15 minutes ago. 

Included with all the rain early (~2:00AM) was significant lightning and
thunder, the likes of which I have not experienced in quite a while. At
one point the core must have been directly overhead as there was not even
1/2 a second between the flash and the thunder.

I noticed in the last post from Martha that she mentioned TD12. This was
really the remnants of TD12 as of the 1PM report it was downgraded to a
"strong tropical wave". Oh well just a minor correction.

Ciao for now.


Alan B. Scholl
Email: scholla AT candw.ag  alan.scholl AT cwanu.cwplc.com
       schollab AT hotmail.com     scholla AT hushmail.com 

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:50:54 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 16:51:44 -0300

amazing parade of cb cells each accompanied by 30-40mph winds and driving
rain-but all seperated by beautiful blue sky.t.d.12 looks a sure bet for
tonight.finally some good rain we hope.boys in backroom may finally get a
bath.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:38:14 -0300

small system passing now.good wind,showers,thunder.will t.d.12 become she
who (un)launched a thousand ships?sorry about your party martha.

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:07:26 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:46:55 -0300

will it be GORDON or gardenia?  looks impressive east of us doesn't it? the
boys seem to be hibernating or is it estivating?

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:29:18 -0300

4 days without a single report!! wind came back saturday and we changed from
flat,clear,beautiful weather to very hazy windy easterly.dry.yuk.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:02:35 -0300

quickie:the last site shows pretty much what the wart is up to---probably
get some rain.please.the boys need a bath.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 20:00:22 -0300

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/volcano/montserrat.gif

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:52:27 -0300

http://wwwneic.cr.usgs.gov/current_seismicity.shtml

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 19:51:04 -0300

can you imagine that there has not been a single posting on the
carib.hurr.page in the first week of september for two straight days!!! a
most unseasonable season--so far.
if we hadn't awakened the boys in the backroom for a free pint of Cavalier
rum they would have slept all week in the blissful hope of a visit from miss
nightingale(FLORENCE) but alas she has not deigned to appear.we did,
however, have a little EARTHQUAKE here on tuesday afternoon--4.8 on the
richter scale--epicenter 55 miles southeast of us and 33 kilometers deep.not
enough fortunately to arouse the boys.big enough,i'm sure,for many
homeowners sufficiently wealthy to have insurance(it's astronomically
expensive here for obvious reasons) to be able to claim for all those cracks
in the walls for which no obvious explanation has been found since the last
earthquake. good luck to them.
i'll flag a great earthquake site in my next missive and you can read all
about it yourselves.
so back to the surface of the atlantic.other than that meteorological wart
sitting just east of me, nothing.
i shall not goatmouth (in local parlance-tempt fate) our relatively peaceful
time and i'm sure it is early times yet but....
extremely hot,windless and getting very dry...sorry but the mention of the
word "dry" woke up a few of the boys in the backroom and who require
attention.gotta go.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 19:26:03 -0300

ho hum

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:40:11 -0300

• From: "ali fuller" <ali_fuller AT hotmail.com>
• Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:23:06 GMT

scary looking wave at 12 42.

prepare
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• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 19:12:05 -0300

forget about ernesta,deborah.alberta, WE WANT MONICA (at least a little bit
of her).
what is that at 24w,11n?
normally a system in ernesto's position would have caused the beginnig of a
change in the wind to the north.not so here.sunny,hot,gentle south-east
breeze.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 07:21:11 -0300

the emasculation of ernesto continues.will we even get a little rain?---but
then again sometimes too hard the eye of heaven shines.
gert and superdave look well together.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 23:22:27 -0300

t.d.8.=? ernesto?
boys in backroom are listless--but it is the silly season--so anything can
happen.
it is very hot.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:14:04 -0300

the previous site i posted shows the full glory of  the birth of a
hurricane.john harris the clockmaker couldn't design anything more naturally
symetrical.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:10:05 -0300

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GIFS/HUIR.JPG

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:49:47 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 18:27:28 -0300

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 08:45:17 -0400 (AST)

Hi,

Everything is back to normal here. As you drive around, there are houese
that are still boarded up. I gather people just could not be bothered to
take them down or they are all catching up on sleep they may have missed
the night before. 

Someone in my office joked that this was the "fire drill" for September. I
certainly hope he is wrong.  In retrospect, I think we can be ready in
very short notice for any impending storm.

Again, we were fortunate this time, our prayers go out to anyone that was
or will be affected by this time.

Until..

Alan

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:08:38 -0300

the boys in the backroom snored all night.
got about 1 inch of rain.
wind dutifully moved from north around to west and now at south west at
about 30 mph.
overcast and squally.
kettle is boiling gotta go make madam tea.
hurr.ali.

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:18:50 -0400 (AST)

Hi,

PHEWWWWW!!!!!!

Well, luck is on our side this time around. Debby swung north and in my
location not  whole lot happened. We never lost power and I slept all
night. There was no significant wind or rain in the Lower Fort Road area,
none at all. It was no worse than any normal night.

I hope that the storm bands do bring some rain. There is no information on
any of the local radio stations, so I am sure that many are confused as to
whether they are to report to work or not.

Alan B. Scholl

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 05:44:06 -0300

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 03:17:22 -0300

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:59:39 -0400

• From: "Henk van Beever" <vanbeeverh AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 01:09:07 -0400

My First report of the season(boring and nothing exciting to report. Sitting
here with generator on and watching the Weather Channel satellite loop
having Debbie crossing the island and reconnaissance aircraft reporting 80
Kts with an eyewall . Funny had more water falling early when I took a
shower than outside  at the moment and very little wind no more than 6-10
kts if that. Maybe I'll go to bed like my friend John Fuller. Good nite...
Henk

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:56:42 -0300

     Power went off little while ago......... UPS beeping woke  me up.....
raining really heavy here  on Atlantic side....gusty wind but nothing to
write home about!!  (or really even write you about..  but since you wanna
know what we are going through...here  it is!!   Bit hard  to tell what is
going on when you are shuttered up.... like being in hot box...  we
normally  live  open air with tropical breeze blowin  through..so  when it
is like  a hot box feel like you are in  a greenhouse... and since ev.
potted plant I have is here too really does seems like that..... with tree
frogs chippin...  wonder where  DEBBY   REALLY   IS..how many times have i
wondered that!????   gonna try to sleep bit more  in case winds to pick up
and i cant!

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:46:59 -0300

rain-wind from n. AT 20><
power off island wide
on battery
huge roar from ocean
not much else
going to join boys in backroom for a snooze
manana
hurricane alley

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 00:05:05 -0300

just spoke to barbuda police station.little wind-no rain.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:50:11 -0300

just starting to kick up a bit.wind now nearly due north-increasing to
20-25mph.rain now--getting heavier. can hear ocean roar however--can't see
it but must be a heavy northely swell.
-----Original Message-----
From: huck <huckphotovi AT theglobe.com>
To: baxterlm AT worldnet.att.net <baxterlm AT worldnet.att.net>; fullerj AT candw.ag
<fullerj AT candw.ag>; gilkesm AT candw.ag <gilkesm AT candw.ag>;
rafapr AT centennialpr.net <rafapr AT centennialpr.net>; lcrum AT worldnet.att.net
<lcrum AT worldnet.att.net>
Cc: huckphotovi AT hotmail.com <huckphotovi AT hotmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 12:32 AM
Subject: debbie


>hello from st thomas
>weather is breezy with a few showers so far.hurricane warning in
>effect.debby may pass to our south sometime tomorrow morning... weather
>updates can be found at
>http://www.huckphotovi.com
>or http://members.theglobe.com/huckphotovi
>best wishes and good luck
>        huck
>

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:35:28 -0300

center of storm now 30-35 miles 70 degrees magnetic from north coast of
antigua.
wind n.e. AT 5-10 mph.
no rain.
experts shmetzperts.

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:04:29 -0400

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:58:30 -0300

wind in north,increasing--20-30 mph.lightning every 10-30 secs.from due
east--maybe 20-30 miles away.intrmittent drizzle.flashes expose north  to
west bands out in the east.  all of that tells me it has jumped north.

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:41:38 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:14:16 -0300

open this site and you will see what i meant in last dispatch.boys in the
back room starting to nod off.

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/volcano/montserrat.gif

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:11:58 -0300

95% sure the bulk of it shall pass north over barbuda. the south west outer
wall is about 35 minutes away from us now.wind n.e. AT  10-15mph. so far debby
is a mere debutante.hope for some rain.

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:34:09 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:16:52 -0300

could it be jumping north at the last minute?

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 20:13:26 -0400

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:17:59 -0300

meant "unpredictability"

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:06:40 -0400 (AST)

Hi again,

At the moment, it is very calm. Most of us have bought gas and food and
hopefully have completed preparation. I can still hear hammers going down
in the Lower Fort Road area. The sky is gloomy but there was some sunshine
a few hours ago alternating between heavy showers (I can assume outer
bands).

We are done and I guess I will be waiing fior the 0000Z (8:00PM) report.
Until then I am going to be lazy.

Alan S.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:27:05 -0300

as you can imagine the inherent predictability of our storms is causing
everyone to prepare for the worst.as i write there are long lines at all gas
stations,supermarkets and hardware stores. the windsurfers are all at the
beach "shredding" and the frigate birds are hugging the shore as they always
do before a storm.
wind steady from the east at about 20mph and gusting to 35mph in
squalls,many of which have passed.
the sky is mostly layered with clouds ranging from very light grey to very
very dark grey.
the re-re-adjusted course puts it over us(literally) at about 2am.not much
to worry about after luis.georges and jose.---------- the boys in the back
room don't fraid that.

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:22:57 -0400

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:49:44 -0400

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:36:07 -0400

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:16:37 -0400 (AST)

Hi,

Well the webcam was short lived as our windows at work have been barred
up. we have also just been instructed that Cable & Wireless' employees at
Clare Hall will be leaving at 1:00PM.

==========================================================
Alan B. Scholl
Email: scholla AT candw.ag  alan.scholl AT cwanu.cwplc.com
       schollab AT hotmail.com     scholla AT hushmail.com 
Tel:   (268)480-4115        Fax:    (268)480-4105
Pgr:   (268)409-4638        Mobile: (268)464-1350
ICQ:   18248455             Ham:    V21BF
Antigua, West Indies - "Where Land & Sea Make Beauty..."

• From: "Ronnie H. Knight Samuel" <rsamuel AT funleather.com>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:16:38 -0400

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:00:00 -0400 (AST)

Hi,

The 1500Z (1100AM local) report indicates that we (Antigua) are now under
a Hurricane Warning and the storm has jumped up to 70mph and 
it is moving West!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I guess it will be a little more than previously expected....

Alan B. Scholl

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:38:19 -0300

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 10:07:24 -0400 (AST)

Hi,

This is a short of list of my favourite weather sites. If anyone knows of
any other feel free to send them to this site or to me.

http://www.wunderground.com/tropical
http://www.intellicast.com/Tropical
http://nlmoc1.nlmoc.navy.mil
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov
http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/index.html
http://weather.yahoo.com/graphics/satellite/Eastern_Caribbean.html
http://www.weather.com/weather_center/trop_season/
http://www.storm2000.com

Alan B. Scholl
Email: scholla AT candw.ag  alan.scholl AT cwanu.cwplc.com
       schollab AT hotmail.com     scholla AT hushmail.com 

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:59:32 -0400 (AST)

Hi,

I have put up a temporary web cam pointing out over the Clare Hall area.
It may be short lived as our handymen may cover up my window but until
they do, you can see what's going on every 10 minutes.

http://www.candw.ag/~alan/webcam.htm

==========================================================
Alan B. Scholl
Email: scholla AT candw.ag  alan.scholl AT cwanu.cwplc.com
       schollab AT hotmail.com     scholla AT hushmail.com 
Tel:   (268)480-4115        Fax:    (268)480-4105
Pgr:   (268)409-4638        Mobile: (268)464-1350
ICQ:   18248455             Ham:    V21BF
Antigua, West Indies - "Where Land & Sea Make Beauty..."

• From: "Alan B. Scholl" <scholla AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:56:05 -0400 (AST)

Hi All,

Well here we go again. It seems as if this will be an annual or bi-annual
event. We have to look at hurricane visits as we do Christmas, birthdays
and Easter. It has become a fact of life or as a "price of paradise".

Visibility is down to 300 feet as rain is pounding Antigua which I hope
signals the end of drought conditions that we have been experiencing. Up
to Friday, the mangrove swamp at McKinnons-Runaway area had completely
dried up. I cannot recall ever seeing it that bad.

We await Debby's arrival. When? No-one can give us that info yet. So we
anxiously look out for the 1500Z report.

Alan B. Scholl

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:19:23 -0300

   6:15 a.m.......was hoping  to wake  up to a miracle  and  she would have
turned north.....but ....as John  says....track puts her  right on top of us
during the early morning hrs. tomorrow...so  gonna start with the  serious
stuff....

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 05:11:49 -0300

5a.m.---
wind gone to north.
gusting to 25mph.
official track puts debby over our house tomorrow at 5 a.m.
deja vu.
going back to bed.

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:14:45 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:45:12 -0300

for the weather heads:
deep ocean surface temperature,i.e.,12 miles east of antigua,is 82.3 deg
far.
very strong pelagic current pulling from the south west.
winds now 10-13 kts 80 degrees.
t.d. 7  adjusted  slightly north--looks like it will pass north of antigua.
good close up is at:
intellicast.com/Tropical/World/UnitedStates/Float2/

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 07:08:48 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 02:12:40 -0300

anyone worried about antigua and t.d. no.7 should NOT open the attached
site---it's a little scary.

http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/newpage/tropics/al072000.gif

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 21:45:05 -0300

This WEB SITE is maintained  by a knowledgeable West Indian now in
Canada......he has some great weather sites  to ck out........



 http://www.caribbeanavenue.com/weather/index.shtml#Hurricane

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 19:03:26 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 18:08:47 -0300

after getting the message below the boys in the backroom all shuffled off to
the john.
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Blake <eblake AT atmos.colostate.edu>
To: fullerj AT candw.ag <fullerj AT candw.ag>
Date: Friday, August 18, 2000 10:57 PM
Subject: Hi again


>Hello,
>
>This is Eric Blake.. I run the Atlantic Tropical Weather Center... we have
>talked a few times and I guess usually when you hear from me it isn't the
>best of news..
>
>I really think that wave around 10 & 40 is going to be a Caribbean
>monster.  I have no idea where it is heading in the islands.. but I would
>bet a fair sum of money that this one won't miss... also from the large
>wave it is imbedded in.. it will probably take a long time to get
>going... but once it does, it will probably be a large and powerful
>hurricane.. perhaps the size of Allen or maybe Hugo.
>
>Anyhow... the main threat in 4 days or so... we'll see how the forecast
>verifies then.
>
>Eric
>
>

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 13:21:23 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:33:40 -0300

• From: "Terry & Andrea" <terand AT sunbeach.net>
• Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 13:05:42 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:25:18 -0300

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 09:41:47 -0300

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 15:12:12 -0300

     It has been a quiet summer thus far... and lots of people around
Antigua  are saying it is so cool compared to the past few summers...and the
sea is not as  hot has it has been in past years...
Some were beginning to feel  this may be a hurricane free season in spite of
all the bad forecasts!!   HOWEVER IT IS STILL EARLY DAYS...only  early
August.......
            and now  as of  5 a.m. this morning...Friday    August 4th....
TROPICAL STORM ALBERTO has been born  -  the first of 2000!!!    It's   Way
to far out to sea to know  what it may do...  down at 12.4 north and  25.0
west.....long way off...  but  the forecast path  shows a north turn and
puts it around 15  north and  36 west  in about 3 days..  (Antigua is  17.1
and  61.4)   The Advisory  # 2  (11 a.m)    from the Miami Hurricane Center
states that  Alberto could become a hurricane in the next couple of days.
The Hurricane Hunters are sending  a crew today and another tomorrow to
their Caribbean base in ST CROIX....and  while that gives  me reassurance,
it also  makes  me a bit nervous.    These guys don't fly these thing just
for fun.....  Still.....the info we have now is all on SATELLITE...and until
the system is FLOWN into by the Hurricane Hunters  the info is not as
accurate....    so.... as   before... we just watch and  wait.....   ANTIGUA
CARNIVAL  is in full swing... Official holidays are Monday and Tuesday...
this is big time for  Caribbean people an local Antigens...and will be
ashame if  it is spoiled by this bad weather.......maybe Antigua will get
lucky this year!!   until......

• From: "simmo" <trigging AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:22:06 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:03:11 -0300

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 06:39:57 -0300

more rain,windy,hazy.ocean temp.-79.1 f.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:20:47 -0300

• From: "MARTHA WATKINS GILKES" <gilkesm AT candw.ag>
• Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 14:51:57 -0400

JUNE 2nd... and the second day of hurricane season!!  Here we go again.  It
is beautiful in the islands   just now... hard to think of a hurricane
coming  our way but they say we better be ready!  Just testing communication
on this new hurricane site Gert has arranged.

• From: "John Fuller" <fullerj AT candw.ag>
• Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 23:12:54 -0300