{"id":7268,"date":"2004-08-13T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2004-08-13T14:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/?p=7268"},"modified":"2011-09-10T18:47:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T23:47:35","slug":"7268","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/blog\/2004\/08\/13\/7268\/","title":{"rendered":"Riders on the Storm&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charley is now passing by, winds are howling, but it doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;re getting more than 50 knots of wind, but it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s going to get much more than that. It&#8217;s not raining that much, and from what we can see on the satellite, we&#8217;ll have some nice clear weather after this passes. Hopefully we&#8217;ll have a nice weather window to get out to Isla Mujeres as soon as tomorrow. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re hoping for&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>So last night, we went into town in search of a hurricane party. We managed to find a restaurant open, where we had a great late hurricane eve dinner, and then we went down to the wharf and then Duval St looking for a joint that would take us in. There was NOTHING OPEN. So much for the legendary hurricane parties. Guess that&#8217;s all they are, legends.<\/p>\n<p>During out venture into town, it started raining pretty hard, and since we left our rain gear on board, we had to improvise a bit. Hence the trash bags (click &#8220;more&#8221; to see the photos)<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mike (our crewmember for the mexico trip) and me walking around Schooner's Wharf, which is closed.\" title=\"Mike (our crewmember for the mexico trip) and me walking around Schooner's Wharf, which is closed.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hurricane5.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mahi and me by the Black Duck in the pouring rain...\" title=\"Mahi and me by the Black Duck in the pouring rain...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hurricane4.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Me, by one of the boarded up shops, expressing our sentiments exactly...\" title=\"Me, by one of the boarded up shops, expressing our sentiments exactly...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hurricane3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are some shots of the storm conditions this morning, about 8AM&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Storm pic\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hurricane1.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Storm pic, off the cockpit\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hurricane1a.jpg\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Storm pic\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theandiamo.com\/images\/hurricane2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We may have a couple more before the day&#8217;s up&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charley is now passing by, winds are howling, but it doesn&#8217;t look like we&#8217;re getting more than 50 knots of wind, but it doesn&#8217;t look like it&#8217;s going to get much more than that. It&#8217;s not raining that much, and from what we can see on the satellite, we&#8217;ll have some nice clear weather after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7268"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7268\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theandiamo.com\/logwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}