Weather by Design

What a show! Omar was supposed to be a cat 1 and stay well away from the island where I sit on a bluff, but it revved up to a 3 and made a beeline for us. At 3:00 am I could hear and feel the freight train coming from the depth of hell. This bad boy was for demonstration purposes only, since in the end all the islands of the Northern Caribbean (including the Virgin Islands which it was supposed to hit) narrowly escaped Omar’s core. According to hurricane specialist Stacy Stewart at the US National Hurricane Center, "Hurricane Omar weakened rapidly as it surged into the Atlantic on Thursday, after threading its way through the small islands of the northeastern Caribbean as a fiercely powerful storm that ended up causing relatively little damage...It missed all the major land masses. The only land mass that we know it hit was an itsy-bitsy island called Sombrero and that's uninhabited. If it was going to go on a track that wouldn't affect anybody or at least not affect anybody significantly, then it absolutely took that track," Stewart said. The name Omar is of Arabic and Hebrew origin and signifies “a speaker… flourishing… long lived”. I hear poetry... flying in the face of logic.