TS Laura has little impact on Sister Islands
(CNS); Reports from Cayman Brac indicate that Tropical Storm Laura, contrary to expectations, left limited rainfall and very low winds as it passed some 90 miles off the coast, Monday. Deputy District Commission Mark Tibbetts said they fared very well in an audio statement. However, he warned the public on the Sister Islands that they were still under a tropical storm warning.
An all clear for the two islands was not anticipated until this afternoon.
Meanwhile, rain continues to be heavy on Grand Cayman after Laura passed at its closest point around 10am, some 155 miles north east of the island.
See the local weather forecast here
Category: Science & Nature, Weather
Thoughts and prays 🙏 for those along the Gulf coast tonight and tomorrow🙁Massive storm now. We got luck once again 🙏
Thank you to Honorable Mark Tibbetts for his professional statements to the media in regard to the Brac being spared from damages associated with tropical storm Laura. Mr. Tibbetts is always working for his community.
Everyone prepares and does the necessary steps before a hurricane. We Brackers remain thankful to God yet again to be spared from damages and dangers associated with inclement weather. Thanks also to all Government and private sector employees that worked to ready Cayman Brac from this emergency.
How many Brackers were evacuated the night before on the two special CAL flights laid on at great expense to rescue our countrymen from 35mph winds.
Ummm none? Brackers weren’t evacuated. The flights were for anyone who wanted to return to Grand Cayman. Stop being such a heartless as*!!!
Thank you Mark for another day off – district admin building employee. After the 10-minute rain around 10:00am I was hoping that you would call us back to work after lunch.
Signed
Government employee sick of getting paid full salary and only being allowed to work part-time.
I don’t believe you were on the Brac. Heavy rain and high gusty winds from 8:00 until close to noon.
What you don’t get is that the storm ran mostly between the Sister Islands and Cuba, and nobody knew if it was going to ramp up or not.
Tropical storms are also known as good weather.
Looks like most of the Brac shutdown because of a drizzle. Gcm step ya game up would’ve loved to avoid traffic this morning.
Brac is closer north than we are
It’s funny the storm was north of here the Brac, but the north coast was and still good weather, but the south coast is very rough
South wind
The weather geeks were in full hair-on-fire fear spreading mode. It started when they got all excited that the kawasaki effect might get the two hurricanes circling one another. All in all the forecasting on these two has been the worst in years.