This Week on the Island: This Week on the Island 07/04/2021

‘This Week on the Island’ is written by Doug Bennett and is an update to friends about happenings in Key West last week. Everything is true except for those parts that are lies.

The Weather: Hurricane Elsa is coming to see us, probably sometime Tuesday. It is beautiful today. Probably start getting rain on Sunday/ Monday. See you on the other side.

The Great Hurricane of 1935 blew away Flagler’s ‘train that went to sea’. That was back before they started naming them.

Then they only named them after they became a hurricane.

Now they name almost anything. That, to me, is why we have lots more named storms than we use to have.

A hurricane is a low pressure that rotates counter-clockwise. The top right corner is very destructive. The hurricane starts off with a little wind and rain. If a hurricane is 400 miles across and moving at 10 MPH, then it will be 40 hours before it is gone. Sometime in that time the tide will come in and flood everything.

The wind builds and builds until it gets to ‘kick ass bad’. EXAMPLE: Everything starts leaning to the left (wind coming from the right). The ‘eye of the storm’ is very still and not a sound. Then the wind comes from the opposite direction at ‘kick ass bad’. Everything that was leaning to the left now stands up straight and leans to the right. This is when buildings and trees come down. Then slowly the wind and rain go away.

Meanwhile you have been in the closed house with the sounds of things bouncing off your house. You have no electricity or water. All of your food starts to rot. The heat and the mosquitos are horrible.

New subject:

This Week end is July 4th.