Just stopped by the Caymans to check on a few of the BCR's offshore accounts. We're not sweating it, either.

And then it was time for the beach.



You probably can't tell this from the pictures -- notice how all the trees on the beach look to be in pretty terrible shape -- but something like 95% of the buildings on Grand Cayman were damaged or destroyed during Hurricane Ivan last September. Nearly every building's roof was plainly damaged -- some buildings had no roof at all.

Our taxi driver told us that across the entire island only two people were killed, and with a direct hurricane hit like this that's something of a blessing -- but still, even months after you can tell that this place was hit very, very hard.