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Still Waiting for Hurricane Norbert
by Actual News Geezer | October 11, 2008 at 10:48 am | 319 views | 17 comments | 40 recommendations
OK, 6pm and no Norbert - looks like we may have dodged a bullet. Fred on sailing vessel Sojourn did a 5pm briefing, and says the worst is already passed.
Worst? what do I do with the 500 t-shirts I ordered...."I SURVIVED NORBERT" ?
Any ideas?
It's now 1430 local time and the storm is predicted to make landfall in another 3 hours. Suddenly the air has turned thick - humidity is running about 99 percent and the air temperature is 93 F.
I just got a loaf of warm bread delivered by Doug aboard Ke-Em-Te, courtesy of Trish. Terry and Terry are wandering around the marina, checking everybody's lines and tying up loose things.
It’s 11:30 am Guaymas, Mexico time and we still have about 7 hours before Norbert makes landfall. I am writing this aboard my 40 ft. cutter, SolMate. Currently I am tied up at the dock in Marina San Carlos.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has had a fairly consistent story for the last 12 hours - Norbert has strengthened somewhat and will be (probably) a category 1 cyclone when it gets here.
Everybody who is here has been lashing down anything that might become an unguided missile when the expected 50 - 75 knot winds arrive. That includes tying down stuff on boats where the owners are not here.
Most of us have never been through a hurricane and we are fortunate in that Marina San Carlos is probably one of the best-protected harbour in the Sea of Cortez. But there are lots of unknowns - such as whether there will be a storm surge (a 3 - 6 ft. surge is predicted by the NHC, and it will arrive right at high tide!).
Here is the projected path:
![[Image of 3-day forecast, and coastal areas under a warning or a watch]](http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/EP15/refresh/EP1508W_sm2+gif/144851W_sm.gif)
October 11, 2008 at 10:48 am by Actual News Geezer, 319 views, 17 comments
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at 11:06 on October 11th, 2008
Nice one, geez. Have you found somewhere save (and attached to the ground) to stay?
You may no longer be in the news-finding business, but it looks like news can still find you!
at 11:27 on October 11th, 2008
Nope - just aboard my boat waiting along with the rest of us crazies...
You still working Saturdays? how are things?
at 11:36 on October 11th, 2008
Indeed, still doing weekends... No rest for the wicked. Things are great- very busy time both at work and play. Great to hear from you, mate.
at 11:30 on October 11th, 2008
Actual News Geezer, I like this story. It's good stuff. Good to hear about you!
at 13:24 on October 11th, 2008
Thanks for this - I hope everything goes ok!
at 13:35 on October 11th, 2008
Great report ANG, stay safe!
at 14:29 on October 11th, 2008
Norbert has made contact with the coast:
Source: afp.google.com
at 14:51 on October 11th, 2008
Hang in there Actual News Geezer!
at 15:46 on October 11th, 2008
Actual News Geezer, Please keep us informed and stay safe.
According to the Federal Commission of Electricity "Norbert will hit land again around Huivulai, Sonora around 20 hours center time as a tropical Storm. Is that close to you?
Source: cfe.gob.mx
at 16:59 on October 11th, 2008
Hey Pat, I am about 75 miles northwest of the hurricane landfall. It's now about 6pm local time and we are just getting light winds so far. We may just dodge this bullet! Thanks for your concern and to all the other commentors, many thanks!
These are my hurricane preps list!
at 16:08 on October 11th, 2008
Actual News Geezer, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 17:34 on October 11th, 2008
Hi ANG! Stay safe!
at 18:34 on October 11th, 2008
I'll take a t-shirt... :)
at 19:18 on October 11th, 2008
What size would you like? how many? which colors? v-neck or crew? cotton or poly-cotton blend? would you like a NORBERT baseball cap in matching colors? also the deal came with stadium seat pads with NORBERT in the center...these should be, or rather, should have been, terrific sellers.
at 19:33 on October 11th, 2008
How could anyone resist a stadium seat pad with NORBERT in the centre!? Hurricane or no hurricane!
at 11:47 on October 12th, 2008
They can also be adapted to other (admittedly less-useful) slogans, like I'm SURVIVED by NORBERT.
at 13:22 on October 12th, 2008
I am more like thinking that we'll find a washed-up domestic terrorist by the name of Norbert, who once panhandled from Barack Obama and John McCain...a kind of modern times Typhoid Mary. Then my Norbert t-shirts might make a comeback...