The best news of all for us on the Silver Whisper, two days away from arriving in Hilo, is that Hurricane Lowell came, caused relatively minor damage, and left. Hurricane Karina is now a post-tropical cyclone, with eye west and north of the Hawaiian Islands, while moving away, and Hurricane Marie is a post-tropical cyclone at 40 MPH and continues north, away from Hawaii. Our ship is located just about where the eye of Karina was a couple of days ago, Good timing. The seas around us are supposedly of 7-foot waves, but these must be large swells, for I can't see any wave-like formation. For the past few days we have had difficulty walking around, for there is considerable rocking and rolling. Other news of the day: The NFL season kicks-off tomorrow at 8:25PM EDT on NBC with the New England Patriots at the Seattle Seahawks. Bet you forgot that the Seahawks won the last Super Bowl? Predictions? They are mostly wrong. Read this. And Yahoo used Ar...
First a, few news items: Today is Labor Day, a national holiday in the USA and Canada on the first Monday of September. Banks, Post Offices, stock markets and schools are closed. You can still go out to eat and shop. The U.S. war with Iran has escalated. Exchanges of fire. Strait of Hormuz remains mostly closed. No peace talks have been scheduled. Oil prices remain high, as Brent Crude oil hit a recent peak of $98 earlier today. U.S. gasoline prices reached a record-high national average of $4.15/gallon for the Labor Day weekend. The previous high was $3.82/gallong in 2012. The Russo-Ukraine War continues with battles and drone exchanges. It has been 1,656 days since Russian invaded Ukrain on 24February2022. 4,482 days since Russia began occupying Crimeaw on February 20, 2014. While the Trump administration has made efforts to bring those countries together, they have failed. This war will continue if Russia and Ukraine can't agree of land concession...