Friday Pic

Friday Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

TGIF! not really a beach pic but it's looking towards Brewers Bay beach so that kinda counts :-) and it was just so pretty out yesterday that I had to share the pic. Today is looking pretty good too but not quit as clear on the horizon.

Tonight is the soft opening of a new restaurant in Frenchtown, The Looney Bien. I think I spelled it right. It's in the old Margarita Phils location and they'll be serving tex Mex with a local flair. I love Mexican food so I hope it works out. Tonight is also the last night for Hook, Line & Sinker before taking their "off season" break so we'll be stopping there also. Busy night!

Last night we went to the Reichhold Center 2012 season announcement party sponsored by the chamber of commerce. It's a pretty good line up this year so I plan to get some tickets! Commodores, India Arie, plus a bunch more. I'll give the full list later today. The Reichhold Center is such a pretty venue, if you're on STT when they're having a show, you really need to check it out.

Well, have a great weekend!!

Btw- TS Katia is predicted to go way north of us so we shouldn't feel any major effects from her. Maybe some high surf and a rain shower so no worries.

Friday beach, I mean bar picture

Friday beach, I mean bar picture, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Sorry for the late post. This is Jason Jones playing the next to last night at Latitude 18. It's really close to Vessup Beach so we will call it a Beach Pic for our purposes.
Support your local juke joint.
Jay

Webcam is Back!

Finally, the webcam is working again! Click Here  but the weather station is still not reporting. We need to figure out why. We got our power back Monday afternoon with limited internet, real slow connection. We've reset everything but still no data. The homeowner said that sometimes it takes a bit for the IP addresss to reconnect to the site, but since it's now Wed and still nothing, there may be something else going on. The station  is solar powered and supposed to continue to record the data, then once it reconnects to the site, it will  update. I'm curious to see what our wind max was during TS Irene so hopefully we'll have an update soon. I'm sure weather underground would appreciate it also.

Aftermath of TS Irene

Well, we survived the storm, still no power since noon yesterday, leaky windows, some down trees here and there and a broken tile on our patio table, but other than that all is well. The harbor is brown and has some wave action, and Frenchtown is a mess. Our boat survived but got rocked around a lot. The CYOA canopies did not survive.

Our Honda generator did a good job of keeping the fridge running and some lights and a fan and the weather station. We were seeing winds in the mid 40's with gusts to 59 mph. Jay tried to hook the gen up to the water pump this morning so we could have a shower but I guess it just didn't have enough juice to do that. Of course the pump is three stories down so it could be just the draw on the extension cord. If it's still off when we get home this evening, he's going to try carrying it down to the pump and try it again.

We had to head into work today regular time since it was the first day of classes at UVI, gov offices didn't open until 10:00, Jay had to be at CYOA to clean up the mess. There was a curfew put in place yesterday evening from 8:00 pm until 6:00 am this morning. We had AT&T service pretty much thru the whole thing. But I lost service when I got to UVI this morning and haven't had any all day. Not sure what's going on with that.

The big question is where is now Hurricane Irene headed next?

Tropical Storm Irene

Tropical Storm Irene, originally uploaded by captainjay.

We're feeling the effects of the outer bands of Tropical Storm Irene. Today was the annual Texas Chili cookoff and it was a great turnout despite the weather. But they had to finally shut things down around 2:30 since the wind started kicking up. We checked our weather station and it said 21 mph winds with 28 mph gusts but hadn't updated since noon, which meant no WAPA. Once we got home Jay fired up the Honda generator and got the station up and running. It's currently reading 35 mph with 49 mph gusts and we're not in the thick of it yet. It's supposed to be 70 miles due south around 10pm so we'll see if it gets any worse. The shutters are up, except half the livingroom so we have some air flow and the boat is secured to the dock so we should be good to go. We'll post more if anything changes.

Friday Beach Pic

Friday Beach Pic, originally uploaded by captainjay.

TGIF! spent the last two days on St. Croix helping out with freshman orientation. It was a good trip. We got lots done and I got to wake up to this view! Can't beat that.

Hope everyone has a great weekend. :-)

Jost on a Sunday

We took a little boat ride over to Jost Van Dyke yesterday on a friends boat, since our's is still out of order. Very fun day. White Bay was a litte crowded but still loving going over there :-)