"Other" Island

"Hurricane Omar taking aim at Caribbean islands - MIAMI — Hurricane Omar is slowly moving northeast, a day after drenching islands in the southeastern Caribbean. Hurricane warnings have been issued for the U.S. Virgin islands, Puerto Rico's Vieques and Culebra islands and other islands in the region."

We am those "other islands". It's coming in the next 24 hours. This will really test our strength and stress the week before midterms exams. Thursday 2AM is the hit time, but the it is dreary out now. The winds and rain will pick up today and school may be canceled later. I've got plenty of supplies and feel as ready as I can be, but these wood shutters are not exactly the aluminum ones I had back on the mainland.

It is what it is on the "other" islands.