I don’t know anyone in the Yucatan Peninsula. But, thanks to technology, and the guess work of hurricane researchers, I’ve just met Dean, the hurricane likely to hit the peninsula tonight.
(all images thanks to AP)
While physically plowing through the waters of the Caribbean, the storm is currently going in and out of the headlines in the news. Having already brought its energy to Jamaica, it is likely that by the time you read this post, it will have struck land again. Predictions at the moment are aligning a strike in Belize followed by a crossing of Mexico, back into the Gulf and further into Mexico once again. Historically the predictions never get the path quite right. So even though Dean has grown as unconceivably as large as Texas, the pathway of anxiety is always wider than that of the storm projection.
The picture documentaries of the storm of emotions currently available are incredible; telling stories of the storms impact both physically to the land and in the pulse of the response from the people near the path. If the storm is to reach category 5, as predicted, the boards on houses, the tarps over cars, and the panic phone calls will stand no chance.
On so many levels, energy is in the air. The paths they take are about as predictable as the paths we take when they cross.
