Hurricane Emily plowed through the Western Caribbean today; as she continue to head toward the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. Emily's category 4 sustained winds (131-155 mph) spared Jamaica and the Cayman Islands their full force, as the core of the dangerous system skirted by to the south.

Today the authorities in Mexico scrambled in a vain attempt to evacuate up to 30,000 resort guests by jamming them into 500 buses (too little to late in my humble opinion; this operation should have been put underway two days ago). Within a matter of a few hours now the full force of this monstrous storm's (currently) 135 mph sustained winds, and up to 15 of storm surge, will be unleashed on the tourist friendly regions of Cancun and Cozamel. Little doubt that the destruction wrought could be quite severe indeed.

Hurricane Emily is now in the history books as the most intense July hurricane in the history of the North Atlantic Ocean. With 155 mph sustained winds and a barometric pressure reading of 929 mb (a border line category 5), Emily stole the crown from her big brother Denis, who held the record for a mere week. She is still showing signs of strengthening, and may reach category 5 status on Sunday.

With these types of storms appearing in July. I shudder to think of the type of sea monsters that will be prowling the surface of the deep as the peak of hurricane season nears on September 1oth.

This morning Hurricane Emily briefly reached a peak intensity of 135 mph sustained wind speed, and a low barometric pressure reading of 952 mb (or a category 4 out of a maximum of 5). She then began a weakening trend that continued until this evening. Emily is still expected to impact the Yucatan later this weekend.

Hurricane Emily reach major hurricane status today, with sustained winds of 115 mph and a low barometric pressure of 962 mb (or a category 3), as she continued to slice through the southern Windward Island of the Caribbean.

Emily is headed towards the Yucatan Peninsula of southern Mexico; where she is projected to make landfall by the weekend.

When belief in God is outlawed, only outlaws will believe in God.

As we in the Western World rocket towards an increasingly secular society, the pendulum swings further towards a completely atheistic extreme. Faith in divine deities will be replaced by faith in the system itself, and the view that all things in the universe can be measured, dissected, and cataloged. The interest in the mysterious will no doubt vanish as well, giving way to a malaise of the human spirit; like the expression of wonder and joy on the face of an infant being replaced by one of boredom and sadness.

Of course no system is perfect, and as it's flaws are continually demonstrated (such as corrupt government officials), no doubt this will lead to absolute disillusionment by an increasingly large segment of the populace in our new world order. This lack of faith of any sort in anything, and a denial of any type of moral or ethical absolutes, will lead to even greater societal ills, and feelings of alienation amongst a vast percentage of the population. Personal acts of desperation, such as work or school place massacres, will of course be on the up tick in such a poisoned social and religious environment. A dark vision I concede, but disturbingly (VERY disturbingly indeed) a VERY possible future.

Tropical storm Emily became a hurricane today as she raced towards the Southern Windward Islands. Emily is the second hurricane, and the fifth tropical storm, of this already record breaking (Hurricane Denis was the strongest hurricane ever recorded in this part of the world for the month of July) North Atlantic Hurricane Season. Emily is forecast to become a major hurricane (115 mph winds, or above) by the end of the week.

"Have you seen the Ghost of John. Bright white bones, and the rest all gone."

I believe that the line from the above song sums up well the current status of the so called Bush administration. What with it's failure to get it's nominee for ambassador to the UN (one John Bolton) confirmed, it's ongoing disastrous war in Iraq, the antics of it's primary political advisor Karl Rove, and a complete inability to correct, or even admit, it's many mistakes. Due to these, and several other factors, I have little doubt that it will go down in history as perhaps the most corrupt, incompetent and undeserving administration of all time; or at least until the next mildly retarded spoiled little rich boy is given his crack at running the White House.

Our weather today was haunted by the "Ghost" of Cindy. A low pressure system that was comprised in part of the low level moisture from the former Tropical storm, combined with an upper level low to produce intermitted torrential thunderstorms, and even small hail, over our region. The weather conditions at times more resembled those seen over the Great Plains in Spring, rather than those on the East Coast in mid-Summer.

The Tropical Wave, located mid-way between NW Africa and the Leeward Island, became the fifth tropical depression of the North Atlantic hurricane season at midnight today. Closer to the coast of NW Africa, yet another tropical wave is showing signs of development, and it is also churning towards the Caribbean Islands. Both systems will no doubt bare watching as the week progresses.

As I watched Monday night RAW. I was struck by several facts; first and foremost amongst them is that, WWE title holder, John Cena IS NOT championship material.
The man is a total disgrace to the profession, and his ongoing feud with Chris Jerico is about as dynamic as drying paint. The fact that this pathetic Vanilla Ice wannabe was given the chance to hold the WWE Smackdown championship at all, just vividly demonstrates how much trouble the WWE is actually in. Not only are revenues down, but the creative department seem to lack any true direction, and for that matter any real creativity.

Next we have a man who is being billed as a disgusting 500 pound version of Hugh Hefner (a gimmick I might add that disturbingly seem to fit him to a tea). I speak of none other than that revolting puss bag known as Viscera. Why on Earth anyone would want to watch a huge black dude with scary eyes and a bleached mohawk, describe how he would like to perform oral sex acts on a female announcer, and do pseudo anal rapes on his fellow male wrestlers is beyond me. Apparently, and sadly, however IT IS NOT BEYOND the sick minds of WWE's creative team.

In closing it is truly sad to see how far the WWE has fallen from it's glory days four years ago; due to a lack luster talent roster, gross mismanagement, greed, and a creative team that has it's collective head so far up one wrestler’s ass (COUGH HHH COUGH) that it can see his liver.

Its' funny you know. Every year the Southeastern US, and the Caribbean, get batter by at least two Tropical Cyclones (tropical storms or even hurricanes), yet it seem that people still do not truly respect these storms power.

As Hurricane Dennis plowed into the Northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico today with 115 mph winds, many people in New Orleans (only about 200 miles East of where the eye made landfall) were actually PARTYING, PARTYING for God's shake! On the Fox New Channel the mayor of the Big Easy arrogantly declared that he feels that his area is "Safe" from such catastrophic damage as visited upon Southern Florida by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. While it is true that NO has been VERY LUCKY in the past several decades, this luck will NOT LAST FOREVER. One day a monstrous storm will hit the city head on, and flood it's 6 feet below sea level (at it's highest point), streets with a +20 ft storm surge. When that terrible day comes; the causalities suffered may make the +20,000 Central Americans who lost their lives in 1998 Hurricane Mitch , look like nothing by comparison. The only area that would be worse for a major (sustained winds of at least 111 mph) hurricane's waves and surge to bulldoze over would be lower Manhattan. In either case, both are truly frightening scenarios; in terms of possible economically lose and causality numbers.

In closing two more Tropical Waves have moved off the Western Coast of Africa in recent days. One is already showing signs of development, and maybe will become the next Tropical Storm, or Hurricane (named Emily) within 24 hrs, as it steams towards the Windward Island of the Caribbean Sea.