No, sillies, not in the boat....IN MY CARS! It must be raining 3"/hour
in Charleston as Ernesto passes us in SC. My two old cars leak a
little....luckily they also drain a little...(c;

It's raining on the docks really hard. Glad I'm not there....

Businesses are closing all over this afternoon. The radio and TV talking
heads, all praying Ernesto will improve ratings and blow this place to
hell since yesterday, have the naive scared to hell. Some people even
went to the shelters LAST night, probably spending the night on the gym
floor wondering why the stars were out and the TV heads lied to them.

I bet my breakfast waitress $20 the wind doesn't exceed 35mph at the
airport weather station. She's been listening to too much radio heads,
today. There's no wind at all, right now. I measure the center of
Ernesto on the radar map at:
http://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?r...erlay=11101111
&loop=no
at 150 degrees, 84 miles from the end of the Charleston Battery.....on it
way to North Carolina.....not Charleston.

I've called 3 radio station to correct them telling the public the storm
was headed NW...wishful thinking on their parts...its course looks to be
020 on the radar loop....and curving even more Eastward.

Seas at our 41004 bouy offshore of Charleston are only 25 knots gusting
to 33 with 8' seas......race weather!...(c;
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=41004

The poor TV people are standing in the pouring rain waiting for the awful
gale that's just not going to materialize.....to boost ratings. How
stupid.

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