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The next day started out wet.  And windy.  We pow-wowed in the morning after checking all the available weather data and decided to make what would be our first of maybe two 24-hour runs to just outside New Orleans, to a marina called Hurricane Hole.  We were hoping that the name of our destination wasn’t going to be telling because now we were tracking what NOAA was calling Atlantic Disturbance #1, which had some decent odds at becoming a real…

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We arose very early on Saturday, and very seriously checked the weather.  The inconsequential seeming collection of thunderstorms brewing about over Hispaniola had suddenly gotten a chip on its shoulder, and the weather geeks at NOAA had money on the table that it might come right up the west coast of Florida, growing more fearsome in the calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.   We pow-wowed and researched as much forecast data as the Internet and borrowed wi-fi could…

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