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• From: "penny" <lukkypennie at webcoast2coast.net>
• Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 11:42:14 -0600

We are thrilled & delighted to report, that Monster Felix has passed Roatan by. I am sure that the many, many prayers and positive thoughts emailed to us from everywhere, helped us all immensely.

ABC News in New York City has been calling and I am so happy I have nothing to report. I am very worried and feel terrible about all the people who fled Roatan for the safety of the mainland. Hopefully your prayers will keep them safe as well.

Early this quiet morning, the ocean was flat and a silvery blue gray, like the finest floor slate ever made. The sky looked like a water soaked ceiling about to cave in. The first hint of a storm came calling, angry thunderheads bumping and grumbling, a few rain drops, but that is all.

We still double checked the yard and locked the outside faucet to prevent water theft in the aftermath, should we still get a surprise storm.
The house nearest me has just started to board up. My friend Alex is right, "better safe than soggy," but why board up now? Do they know something the rest of us don't?

We decided to stay home, so the jewelry store is completely boarded up. Penelope's is open 7 days a week, so this is our first day off ever... some "day off." We had loaded everything into our van, so now we get to unpack, but I am not complaining a bit!

The hurricane reports are so confusing and contradictory, but this is the information I just gathered:
Felix hit the Nicaragua Honduras border at 8 am, Category 5, 160 mph winds with stronger gusts, 18 foot storm surge. It hit the Misquito Coast, sparsely populated with Indian fishermen. It appears there was no way to evacuate them. There will be mudslides and flooding.

Felix is now moving west, over land at 120 mph, now a Category 3. All tracking maps show Roatan and the Bay Islands being missed completely.
This hurricane season is the first time in recorded history to have 2 Category 5's in the same year in the Atlantic Basin.
Here on Roatan it is 86 degrees, 74% humidity, with winds from the North at 13 mph.
It seems much more uncomfortable and hot in a dark, boarded up house.

We had been planning our First Anniversary Birthday Party of our jewelry store, Penelope's Island Emporium on Saturday. I think we will change it to a "Stayin Alive" Party, serving "Karat" cake & Hurricanes.
I wish everyone who emailed me, sending prayers, good thoughts & lots of tracking information could attend.

Hopefully, there will be nothing further to report. I have to start unpacking now, I can't find a thing.
Hurricane Correspondent,
Penny Leigh
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Penelope's Island Emporium, West Bay Beach
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