Thursday, September 9

Been Watching Ivan

Okay...and working, too. But we've been following the blowhard not only at the Negril, Jamaica Message Board (a combination of locals and stateside people in the modern-day version of the telegraph), but on the island's independent radio station, IRIE-FM. You need to subscribe to hear it, but this normally balls-to-the-wall reggae-all-day, dancehall-all-night station is instead intertwining news and info updates with spiritual Jamaican tunes. Very bittersweet to hear, especially knowing that they're facing certain mayhem with this (now) category 4.

Gotta love the Jamaicans - what can I tell ya. Hopefully, Jamaica, Cuba and (again) Florida will come through this one okay...better than Grenada which had damage or destruction to 90% of its residential structures. Yow.

UPDATE: The output from Jamaica on the message board has ground to a halt - I'm guessing because they shut the power down to save the generators. Eerie.