[NautiNurse]

The storm was Hurricane Joaquin (2015).

[Paul R.]

Haha -glad you found that. I was trying to pull it up here,

https://coast.noaa.gov/hurricanes/?redirect=301ocm

but I’ll be darned if I can get the filters and such to actually narrow the search. (”Basins” worked for me at one point, but after that, I got more results, not less. I guess I’m not enough of a computer geek, after all!)

[boatbums]

Ok. Glad you identified it. That happened after we had only been back in Florida for a few months and, thankfully, Joaquin was never thought to be a threat to Florida. It hammered the Bahamas pretty good and sunk a ship with 30 something people on board (all lost at sea). It definitely DID make some swings, that's for sure:

[Paul R.]

It looks like Great Inagua Island (Bahamas) should now be through the worst Irma will throw at it?

I thought maybe that island would be big enough to diminish Irma a bit, but, it’s mostly flat, 1/4 of it is inland lakes (probably very warm?), and the highest spot is only 132 ft. elevation. Other stats: 596 sq. miles, under 2 people / sq. mile, home to a large Morton Salt facility (#2 producer of “solar” sea salt in the world), and also home of a large avian sanctuary, with over 80,000 West Indian flamingos, as well as many other species. It is also home to a sea turtle sanctuary, as is the island of “Little Inagua”. Damage to the salt factory is unknown; I’d think the birds must be in a very bad way; maybe the turtles did better?