Today was a normal work day, the only thing that was missing was normal traffic, but I'm the last person you'll hear complaining about that. The boards are still up on the windows, I guess we'll start taking them down after work tonight, if we can borrow those ladders again. If not, we'll take down the lower-floor boards and store them for next time and get the upper-floor ones when we can.

We put all our systems back up and online yesterday afternoon, and this morning have had to deal with sporadic network outages here and there, mostly due to end-users plugging their own computers back in and failing to remember to plug their network cable back in. No big whoop.

I got an email from my bud Ed who I used to work with at the dive shop in Texas, he was in Cozumel this weekend for a little diving. I was a bit concerned about him, but he emailed me last night from San Antonio and he got out of Cancun on one of the last flights yesterday before they shut down the airport.

Check out this 5-day history of wind, sea height and air pressure from one of the NDBC buoys located near 20N 85W.

Emily's back over water now in the Gulf of Mexico as a cat2 and may strengthen again to a cat3 before hitting Mexico or Texas later on tomorrow. It's amazing the amount of news that's coming out of Cancun and Cozumel, photos and articles. One thing I read on the Yahoo/Reuters report that totally gobsmacked me was a quote from a couple tourists from Quebec who refused to take shelter and wanted to stay out on the beach “because they've never seen a hurricane before”. What a couple of morons. First of all, there's nothing to see, as it went ashore after dark, and secondly, you can't keep your eyes open in 135mph wind, never mind the sand that's blowing at 135mph. People like that you hope get washed out to sea before they can reproduce and bring more stupid people into a world that's already full of them.