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Hurricane Lane - Category 3
Posted on Saturday Sep 16, 2006
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Everyone got down to business yesterday getting ready to get our asses kicked by Hurricane Lane. We totally stripped our boat and helped strip several other boats whose owners werenÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢t around. At 3:30am Lane turned more right and towards Mazatlan and to make things even happier, it built to a category 3 hurricane.
By about 4:30am we braved the flooded streets to get down to the marina and prep SherrellÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢s dadÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢s office and put some more lines on the boat. By about 6:30am we realized we got a very lucky break. Lane continued past Mazatlan missing us by about 30 miles and making landfall north of us by about 60 miles.
Instead of 127 mph winds, we only saw about 45 mph and a TON of rain. I couldnÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢t even guess how many inches of rain weÃ?¢ââ??‰â??¢re getting, everything is flooded. Amazingly we still have power and by 11am the winds have shifted and hopefully in a few more hours everything will settle down.
Some Independence Day for Mexico! Looks like we'll spend it cleaning up all the debris.
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