Though local TV continued to give warnings for Oahu, Hawaii, the 6:00 pm national news told of hurricane Lane’s change to being oval in shape, breaking up, and heading away from Oahu at a snail’s pace. The Big Island and Maui continued to get buried in rain causing severe flooding. We went to bed feeling relieved of the threat of high winds yet concerned about our island neighbors and our predicted rains. As Oahu eye’s opened this morning, silver sky turned grey with lower l

Preparing your vessel for a Hurricane Growing up in South Florida, preparing for hurricanes of varying categories was a yearly routine. When the deck furniture was brought inside, the small boats pulled to higher ground and filled with water, and the family boat lovingly secured, we moved inside where a big pot of stew sat on the stove. As each storm built in varying degrees outside, we took turns peering through a two inch hole cut through one of the sheets of plywood prote

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