Friday, August 17, 2007

Watching Dean

Me (left) with Jeremy Davies (right) after a night of chasing severe weather in Columbus.

This year’s hurricane season has gotten off to a slow start, but now it’s really starting to kick into gear.

Hurricane Dean is blowing into the Carribean and threatening many of the Carribean islands.

One of those islands is tiny Grand Cayman.

During my time at WRBL as a reporter, I worked with a very talented photographer, Jeremy Davies.

Jeremy and I worked very closely at times, traveling to Louisiana to cover Fort Benning soldiers training for deployment to Iraq at the Joint Readiness Training Facility.  We also covered countless stories and even significant weather events in the Columbus area.

Now, Jeremy is working for a television station in Grand Cayman.  For many of us, it’s a dream job.  Tropical weather, low key atmosphere, paradise.

But, according to National Hurricane Center predictions, Hurricane Dean will be bearing down on Grand Cayman sometime early Monday morning.  It could be a Category 4 storm then.

There’s no doubt in my mind Jeremy will be able to handle the storm.  He’s a real pro, and solid as a rock.

I only wish I could be there with him, to weather and report on the storm.

Good luck Jeremy!