The next decade....what's in store?

Day before Dean

1. Got collected at airport around 1:15pm. The ride over wasn't too bumpy. The pilot had to fly north of Puerto Rico and Hispanola to avoid the bumps. Usually they fly south of those islands. Did errands like buying fruits and coconut water.

2. Went to the hairdresser. The hairdresser?????????? Yup. I had made an appointment for Monday but who knows what Monday will be like and the tough nigger head needed to be relaxed.

3. Driving around St Andrew today, everybody was walking with shopping bags in their hands, showing some sign of preparedness. But I passed a shack/shop on the side of Barbican Road who hadn't yet started to take down his stuff. I guess he feels he has time. The radio station reported extended opening hours of some supermarkets up to midnight tonight and from 8am tomorrow morning up to 4 hours before Dean is expected. Not sure they should open.

4. When you looked up into the sky earlier this afternoon, it looked like a typical Caribbean weather day. Blue skies, some clouds, not much. By the time I was leaving the hairdresser at 6:20pm, there were just a few dark clouds but nothing to suggest that something so catastrophic is looming less than 500 miles east of us!

5. A friend called me from Grenada tonight. He asked me if I was crazy to have left Grenada to come here, knowing Big Dean was approaching. He wasn't the only one. When I was putting my suitcase in the car at the airport this afternoon, a man walked by me, looked at me and muttered "so why you come here for...yuh nuh see si hurricane ah come?"

They don't understand the concept that for me, it's better to be with my family, knowing what is happening with them, than me being safe far away.

6. Arrived home to a very hot house. Oh, the hurricane shutters are up. Bloody hot. A/C tonight for sure! That is until the lightening knocks out the electricity.

7. As I type, am waiting on a call from the Brother. He who lives at the top of a high hill, was planning to pass the hurricane up there! His sensibilities returned and he is toting his valuables down to an apartment we have nearby, just in case his roof goes and the greedy village people decide to loot. The valuables include the dog, who will be sleeping in our house tonight (while my dog Penny has to sleep outside, boarded up in a kennel!!!!! 'Life is not fair', I hear her barking when she finds out!)

Here is a picture of that dog....

Posted by yamfoot at August 18, 2007 09:49 PM