The winds finally changed directions for Habagat season, meaning my western side of the island is getting cooler air and my happy ass can go outside. With the wind, it’s like the difference between night and day for temperature around here. I spent most of the day in the water, something I’ve not done in [...]
Thats what I should name this, the BBB. Boracay Brownout Blog. Its gotten to be as boring and tedious and a brownout or life in general on Boracay. Todays started sometime 8ish am and is still kickin’ after lunchtime hours. Had a generator but some genious though that’d be a good time to plug in [...]
The weather has been cool, dark, and windy which is just perfect for me! manila got stomped in the storm and everyone (including the President) keeps calling it a typhoon although it never once reached those wind speeds to rise from a tropical storm classification. But rain? Oh yea, it dumped the most ever recorded [...]
Tropical Storm Ketsana came ripping through here and dumped THE record for rainfall in Manila. Its the most on record, apparently but then again no-one bothered recording it until Americans came. On Boracay, it was a lot of crazy winds and rain bursts. There were groups all over station 3 from the cave to the station-house, [...]
The internet connection at home has been sketchy for a few weeks. Seems be a guaranteed outage if it rains or the wind blows or, like today, no reason whatsoever. We’ve been having sporadic brownouts and rain every day for a few weeks now. Don’t know if thats causing it – my bet is the [...]
Brownout – massive one last night. Lasted from 8pm until around noon today. Sputtered to life a few times for moments. Electric company didn’t even know about it until people started calling them; then claimed a few hours later than nothing was wrong. Weather on Boracay – The coolness finally broke and the sun came [...]
Everyone here is happy the sunlight finally shone thru, even if it is still cool. We havent seen direct sunlight in weeks and the water temp even got down to a record 23 celcius in one dive spot. Personally, I’m thinking its still OK since its not ass-sweat-between-the-cheeks kinda hot. But once the summer comes [...]
Wow… we had 6 brownouts in a single night here on Boracay. It started around 8pm and would have one for 30-60 min then on for an hour or two. Just one long series of brownouts. Go figure, they installed a whole new electrical grid over a 2 month period that’s ‘made’ to withstand typhoons [...]
(no, I still haven’t gotten a new laptop so let it rest…) Weather here on Boracay has been nice and cold recently. Even a lot of the western expats are wearing long sleaves and jackets. But me?… hell, I LOVE this shit! Always seem to have a steady inland breeze too.
I bought a monthly password from a friend at the resort next door and it normally works nicely. My wireless here is faster than cable-modem from Kalibo Cable when I had a dedicated line. Trying to get better reception to his guests in the resort, he installed a new, outdoor, high-powered wireless router. Problem is [...]
DSAT TecRec diving, or Tec Deep Diver, or DSAT, or Tec I…. or whatever you prefer…. I learned something, that’s actually tough! All other PADI courses are generally designed so that it’s impossible to fail unless you simply cannot ‘get it’. Even the numbers, if you get them wrong on the test, no probs – [...]
There was this guy that left today….lets call him Lance…mostly because that’s his name. Well, this happinin’ cool cat spent a good amount of time here for his vacation and decided to throw a going-away party for himself after a month of dutiful service on the island. I found out the night before but everyone [...]
too lazy to update.. waaay too lazy, so here’s a bulleted list: fly-paper sheets are an excellent deterrent for cats trying to get into your house, and funny as hell also illnesses were going around the island for a few weeks, a few people got hit twice been raining a lot lately on Boracay the [...]
I woke up around noon today and promptly did nothing but some more laundry. Bleaching all the whites in the house that seem dingy after the house was empty for almost a month. Haven’t been shopping since I got back so I made some instant oats as food, not that I was hungry but I [...]
Boracay has another victim – me. I have a massive blue/black bruise on my upper ass cheek, cuts on the wrist that look like a sorry attempt at suicide, heavy cloth cargo shorts with a cut in the back, a knot on my head…and I’m limping like a gimp in physical therapy. Spent all day [...]
Boracay has taken another victim – me. I found out why they wont choppity-chop the fallen banana palm on the walkway up to here. Because its still alive and has another month to go for the bananas to be ready. This banana tree has been lying there since the typhoon was over many days ago, [...]
Almost came and sat right on top of us. Wind speed estimates were from 90 to 120 km/hr. I dont think anyone actually recorded it here in Boracay. http://www.pagasa.dost.gov.ph/genmet/rpnames.html and http://www.jma.go.jp/jma/jma-eng/jma-center/rsmc-hp-pub-eg/tyname.html These names are preselected in advance and they just go down the list as the storms occur. I had not known this. The first [...]
“…the vessel carried 724 passengers, 111 crew members, and 26 sanitary aides.” What is a sanitary aide? Is it a health care professional or a janitor? And why the term ‘aide’, are they not actually qualified in this field? Who are they aiding, the crew members? That would make 111 supervisors for 26 staffers..on a [...]
I’m not making light of this but it was odd to see this combination of words in an article about the Ferry search being halted because of toxic pesticides that weren’t ever supposed to be on a passenger boat: A handful were positively identified by clothes, scars and jewelery, including a policeman who was returning [...]
Here are some lessons learned after Typhoon Fengshen (frank) Sugar ants can predict typhoons – the recent invasion completely disappeared the morning before the typhoon hit Boracay. They came back at the end of the last rain and are back in force. There is a guy claiming to be a former NASA engineer working as [...]
Check out the inner wall of the eye on Typhoon Fengshen (Frank)! This joker came right next to us that night my drunk ass was walking around the island! You can see the eye open up right at its peak intensity next to Boracay. Credit for the animation goes to typhoon2000.com
UPDATE: whoops, not everyone had power restored like I had said earlier. I went down to Red Pirates and sure enough, they were still without. Several bars/resorts along the southern end of White Beach didn’t have power still…guess I was lucky. As far as I can tell now, everyone seems to have it restored. Honestly, [...]
AaaaHooo!!!! 5 Days now the power has been out on Boracay. The typhoon “Frank” (I know) came in as a mild warning on Friday…nothing special expected here and was supposed to peak around 2pm that day. Whoops. I have too much cleaning up to do now that the power and water are back on so [...]
No more messenger from me, people. Only 6 or less people have commented on here but a bunch hit me up on messenger about my comments..not sure why but whatever. To each, their own. Anyhoo, I start classes again today with the Univ of Phoenix so messenger will need to be cut to a minimum. [...]
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