Cape Point
Friday, September 14, 2012
Monday, September 13, 2010
Hurricane Igor
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| Hurricane Igor 9-13-2010 |
AT 1100 AM AST...1500 UTC...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE IGOR WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 17.5 NORTH...LONGITUDE 49.7 WEST. IGOR IS MOVING
TOWARD THE WEST NEAR 10 MPH...17 KM/HR. A TURN TOWARD THE
WEST-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED TONIGHT OR TUESDAY.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS REMAIN NEAR 150 MPH...240 KM/HR...WITH
HIGHER GUSTS. IGOR IS A CATEGORY FOUR HURRICANE ON THE
SAFFIR-SIMPSON HURRICANE WIND SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN INTENSITY
ARE LIKELY DURING THE NEXT 48 HOURS...AND IGOR IS EXPECTED TO
REMAIN A POWERFUL HURRICANE FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.
HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 45 MILES...75 KM...FROM
THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 175
MILES...280 KM.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 933 MB...27.55 INCHES.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Hurricane Hazel
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| Hurricane Hazel (1954) - Morehead/Beaufort causeway |
Hurricane Hazel was the deadliest and costliest hurricane of the 1954 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm killed as many as 1,000 people in Haiti before striking the United States near the border between North and South Carolina, as a Category 4 hurricane. After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, raising the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto. As a result of its damaging effects and high death toll, its name was retired and will never again be used for a hurricane in the North Atlantic basin.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Hurricane Isabel (Hatteras Inlet to Avon)
These images are a few of the results of a collaboration between the North Carolina Geodetic Survey and NASA. A survey of damage inflicted by Hurricane Isabel on the coast of North Caroline on September, 2003. The images were taken by a NASA high altitude recognizances aircraft on 09/23/2003 (my birthday) Note the overwash of the island in several places.
Hurricane Earl
HURRICANE EARL LOCAL STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEWPORT/MOREHEAD CITY NC
235 PM EDT THU SEP 2 2010
...DANGEROUS AND LARGE CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE EARL CONTINUES TO POSE
A THREAT TO EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA...
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Thursday, September 27, 2007
On the French Riviera
Antibes:
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Antibes has the largest yacht marina (by total tonnage) on the Côte d'Azur, built in the 1960s on the site of a Roman harbor. There is still a local fishing industry, much diminished from its size a century ago. It was formerly a site of perfume distilling; the surrounding country once produced an abundance of flowers. Perfume distillation is still carried out on a commercial scale in nearby Grasse.
The southern peninsula of Antibes is known as Cap d'Antibes. A bastion of wealth and exclusivity, it was the setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. The Hotel du Cap, called Hôtel des Étrangers in the novel, is still one of the most expensive and exclusive hotels in the world. Until 2006, the Hotel du Cap and its Eden Roc restaurant and "beach" club did not even accept credit cards—out of sheer snootiness! Although on a seaside site, the Eden Roc does not have an actual beach; there is a salt water swimming pool with a paved concrete patio for tanning and facilities (a pier, two floats, and a diving board) at the base of their stone ledge cliff for swimming in the sea, but nothing remotely resembling an actual beach.
The Mediterranean Sea around which some of the most ancient human civilizations were arranged, it has had a major influence on the history and ways of life of these cultures. It provided a way of trade, colonization and war, and was the basis of life (via fishing and the gathering of other seafood) for numerous communities throughout the ages.
View from our hotel deck - Life is good.
Click here for more on the French Riviera:
Click here to view on Google Maps:
Antibes has the largest yacht marina (by total tonnage) on the Côte d'Azur, built in the 1960s on the site of a Roman harbor. There is still a local fishing industry, much diminished from its size a century ago. It was formerly a site of perfume distilling; the surrounding country once produced an abundance of flowers. Perfume distillation is still carried out on a commercial scale in nearby Grasse.
The southern peninsula of Antibes is known as Cap d'Antibes. A bastion of wealth and exclusivity, it was the setting for F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night. The Hotel du Cap, called Hôtel des Étrangers in the novel, is still one of the most expensive and exclusive hotels in the world. Until 2006, the Hotel du Cap and its Eden Roc restaurant and "beach" club did not even accept credit cards—out of sheer snootiness! Although on a seaside site, the Eden Roc does not have an actual beach; there is a salt water swimming pool with a paved concrete patio for tanning and facilities (a pier, two floats, and a diving board) at the base of their stone ledge cliff for swimming in the sea, but nothing remotely resembling an actual beach.
- Russian oil billionaire Roman Abramovich, owner of the 115-meter (377 foot) mega-yacht Pelorus, the 85-meter (279 foot) mega-yacht Ecstasea, and the 50-meter (164 foot) mega-yacht Sussurro. He is currently having the 160-meter (525 foot) mega-yacht Eclipse built; when completed, it will be the world's largest yacht.
- Evgeny "Eugene" Shvidler, friend and business partner of Abramovich to whom he gave the 113-meter (371 foot) mega-yacht Le Grand Bleu
The Mediterranean Sea around which some of the most ancient human civilizations were arranged, it has had a major influence on the history and ways of life of these cultures. It provided a way of trade, colonization and war, and was the basis of life (via fishing and the gathering of other seafood) for numerous communities throughout the ages.
View from our hotel deck - Life is good.
Click here for more on the French Riviera:
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