Miami-Dade County Public Schools employees should not report to work on Tuesday, August 29 and Wednesday, August 30, unless directed otherwise by a supervisor.My supervisor handed out plastic trash bags to cover the computers and told us to unplug them. My office is so far inside the building and on the second floor that if water got in or up that far, a wet computer would be the least of our worries, but I took her advice nevertheless.
At the home front, I'm all set. The lawn furniture is stacked against the house and the orchid is inside. The flashlight works, as does my 1976 Panasonic radio, I have enough canned food to last a couple of weeks, enough bottled water to last for a couple of weeks, too. I that's how I made it through Katrina, Rita, and Wilma last year, and this time it looks like it's not going to get above tropical storm strength.
The latest tracking has it passing pretty much directly over Miami before heading out to sea near Cape Canaveral.
Rest assured this will change in the next twenty-four hours, but it looks like we're in for a wet couple of days.
