A scene showing the Castillo's living room. Couches face the TV, which is on, tuned to the Weather Channel. The view through the windows reveals a nice day outside, with partly cloudy skies and light winds.
A scene showing the Castillo's living room. Couches face the TV, which is on, tuned to the Weather Channel. The view through the windows reveals a nice day outside, with partly cloudy skies and light winds.
TV screen titled "The Weather Channel, weather.com, Current Conditions in Pensacola." Text on the screen details the temperature, wind, dewpoint, visibility, barometer, and weather.
TV screen showing Doctor Steve Lyons, hurricane expert, in front of a track map of Tropical Storm Erin.
Map showing the southeastern region of the United States, including the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. The map shows the position of Tropical Storm Erin. Text in the top right corner of the map reads: "August 2, 3:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time. Storm Location: Latitude: 28.5 North, Longitude: 82.8 West, Pressure: 990 millibars. Wind speed 96.6 kilometers per hour." The storm center is just west of the central Florida coast in the Gulf of Mexico. The track chart shows that the storm was hurricane strength when it hit the East Coast of Florida and didn't weaken to a tropical storm until it was nearly to the Gulf Coast.
Radar image of Erin in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the central Florida Gulf Coast. Storm bands surround the center and extend all the way across the Florida Peninsula to the Atlantic coast. The curves in the storm bands indicate that the storm is swirling in a counterclockwise direction. Several strong thunderstorm complexes are identified by circles to the southwest of Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the Florida East Coast.
A computer display showing various forecasts of where Tropical Storm Erin will go. These forecasts are made by different computer models named 90BE, A90E, AVNI, BAMD, BAMM, BAMS, CLIP, and GFDI. Most of the lines indicate that the models expect the storm to track through the center of Louisiana. The National Hurricane Center official track forecast is traced over the others in a white line.
Map of Florida, with the Atlantic Ocean on the right and the Gulf of Mexico on the left. It indicates that the coast surrounding Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Appalachicola, Suwannee River, Bayport, Tampa, and Longboat Key are under Tropical Storm Warning. It also indicates that the area surrounding Pensacola, Mobile, and Gulfport are under Tropical Storm Watch.
A scene showing the Castillo's living room. Their dog, a golden retriever named Hugo, is standing next to the couch looking at you, wagging his tail, and holding a cell phone in his mouth.
A scene in the Castillo's living room. Hugo, the dog, is holding a cell phone in his mouth. Carla, wearing green shorts and a white tee-shirt, is reaching for the phone.
Carla, wearing green shorts and a white tee-shirt, is talking on the phone.
A scene showing the Castillo's office. It's light outside and partly cloudy. A blue chair is placed in front of the Castillo's laptop computer, which has a pair of external speakers. There's also a printer and phone on the desk. Against the wall is a bookshelf with a set of red encyclopedias and a potted plant. On the wall there is a corkboard with a calendar and pin-ups of the local emergency evacuation plan and a conversion chart.
