Tracking Hurricanes and Cruise Ships

Note: This post was made in our business website first, but I figure it belongs here too. 

Both our cruise ship and Hurricane Milton were scheduled to arrive at the same time. Not good. Jim became obsessed with tracking them both.

Tracking the Hurricane

He tracked the hurricane with a website called Windy.com. This is the map from the morning of Oct 10. The same day we were scheduled to board the Cruise Ship. It actually missed us in Fort Lauderdale, but you couldn’t know that for sure as of the day before. Port Everglades closed down on Oct 9 and our Cruise Ship informed us they would be delayed at least one day.

The special feature of Windy.com is that you can actually see the way the wind is blowing.

Tracking the Cruise Ship

The Viking Neptune cruise ship was on another journey up in NE US waters. Jim could see it when it was in Maine. Then it stopped in New York City. He could watch it leave port in NYC on a web cam. It was headed to Fort Lauderdale to pick us up for our Panama Canal cruise. It was still in New York City as late as Oct 8 and we were supposed to board on the 10th. This boat is fast. Jim watched its progress using CruiseMapper.com It only took it 2 days to get here, but then the port was closed due to the hurricane. 😒

Tracking Geeks

We received official notice that the port has reopened and our cruise ship will be docked and ready for us to board tomorrow Oct 11. We will be on board for nearly 3 weeks. We cruise thru the Panama Canal and up the west coast to Los Angeles. Then we fly home. You can track us on the CruiseMapper.com website by looking up the Viking Neptune cruise ship. You can also follow us by watching our photo album.

In preparation for the cruise, we’ve been reading the book The Path Between the Seas. It’s the story of the building of the Panama Canal. An Epic story!

We expect to have good Internet connectivity on the ship, so stay tuned. You’ll be hearing from us.