Mobile Blogging - Days 11 & 12 Back Home
I wonder if there is any $$$ in this storm-chasing-thing because I am getting pretty good at it....& I'm not even trying. The first stop on the Hubb's bucket tour was family in Satellite Beach, FL. Like any smart Floridian I keep an eye on any tropical depression that forms in the Caribbean but I don't really pay too much mind unless it becomes a named storm. Even then, hurricanes are like a basketball game; it's all back & forth, back & forth until the last minute of the game. That's why when I do watch a game (trust me, the last minute of a basketball game can last 45 minutes sometimes) I only watch the last few minutes of the final period. So when the hurricane center upgraded the tropical depression to a hurricane named Irene I was watching but I didn't pay very close attention to all the spaghetti models that the weather-people were rolling out because we were heading for Wilmington, NC and that storm was heading for the west coast of Flor...