----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie Fenton" Category 4 hurricane Lili in Gulf of Mexico > > Batten down the hatches! This one is going to be rough! > Strange but true: Early this AM while we were all bracing for a windy onslaught, Lili backed off from a Category 4 to a Category 2 storm. And none of the meteorologists seems to understand why! In the 24 hours preceding the slow down, while advancing over the warm Gulf of Mexico waters, Lili, as expected, had steadily increased in windspeed, then, in the wee hours this morning, slacked off mercifully. When she made landfall it was with a relatively paltry 100 mph windspeed and we all feel quite blessed to have been spared greater inundation and windy destruction. So curiously misunderstood a phenomenon is this as to be fodder for future Ph.D. dissertations; it is said. All my kayaks had been tied down. Arthur Hebert's were water filled to weight them down. The normal ER crowd stayed home (making my workday delightfully mellow) and a good day was had by many, here in Louisiana. (Folks in the know suggest there will be bump in the birth rate nine months hence - a natural product of the protracted rain and feelings of gratitude. Larry Koenig Baton Rouge,LA *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Oct 03 2002 - 21:26:03 PDT
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