Thanks for the reply.
I'm using a Pi3 A+ connected to a AC power adapter and not battery. I installed Raspbian Stretch thinking it could be a OS version issue. I've also tried the latest Buster version with same result. I've tried using an old Pi A+ board. with same result. I'm waiting on a pi zero but think I'm going to see the same thing.
Image of my connection to weather board. Very simple for testing.

I ran a simpletest_280.py of the BMP. I get a result the first time I execute but fails the second time. I see the error is related to the I2C.
pi@weatherpi:~/SDL_Pi_GroveWeatherPi/Adafruit_Python_BMP/examples $ sudo python simpletest_280.py
Temp = 25.45 *C
Pressure = 75313.00 Pa
Altitude = 2433.39 m
Sealevel Pressure = 75313.00 Pa
pi@weatherpi:~/SDL_Pi_GroveWeatherPi/Adafruit_Python_BMP/examples $ sudo python simpletest_280.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "simpletest_280.py", line 10, in <module>
sensor = BMP280.BMP280()
File "/home/pi/SDL_Pi_GroveWeatherPi/Adafruit_Python_BMP/examples/Adafruit_BMP/BMP280.py", line 48, in __init__
if self._device.readU8(BMP280_CHIPID) != 0x58:
File "build/bdist.linux-armv7l/egg/Adafruit_GPIO/I2C.py", line 143, in readU8
IOError: [Errno 121] Remote I/O error
Filesystem structure
pi@weatherpi:~ $ ls -lrt
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 MagPi
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Templates
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Public
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 13 2018 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 1 16:24 Adafruit_Python_GPIO
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 1 16:25 Adafruit_Python_PureIO
drwxr-xr-x 25 pi pi 4096 Nov 2 08:32 SDL_Pi_GroveWeatherPi
pi@weatherpi:~/SDL_Pi_GroveWeatherPi $ ls -lrt
total 292
drwxr-xr-x 5 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 Adafruit_Python_BMP
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 Adafruit_I2C
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 5848 Nov 1 15:59 README.md
drwxr-xr-x 5 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 RaspberryPi-AS3935
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 MySQLFiles
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 WeatherPiSQL
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4098 Nov 1 15:59 state.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 state
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 80 Nov 1 15:59 startserver.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1534 Nov 1 15:59 sendemail.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 SDL_Pi_SSD1306
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1666 Nov 1 15:59 Scroll_SSD1306.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1326 Nov 1 15:59 pclogging.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 htu21dflib
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 660 Nov 1 15:59 doAllGraphs.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2245 Nov 1 15:59 crcpython2.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1767 Nov 1 15:59 config.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2199 Nov 1 15:59 util.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 15609 Nov 1 15:59 updateBlynk.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 4111 Nov 1 15:59 testSI1145.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 170 Nov 1 15:59 testBlynk.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2890 Nov 1 15:59 testAS3935.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 1902 Nov 1 15:59 testAM2315.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 static
drwxr-xr-x 11 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 15:59 Adafruit_Python_PureIO
drwxr-xr-x 7 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:03 Adafruit_Python_GPIO
drwxr-xr-x 8 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:04 Adafruit_Python_SSD1306
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1329 Nov 1 16:05 sendemail.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1273 Nov 1 16:05 pclogging.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1419 Nov 1 16:05 config.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11274 Nov 1 16:05 updateBlynk.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2722 Nov 1 16:05 util.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3635 Nov 1 16:05 state.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 816 Nov 1 16:05 doAllGraphs.pyc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 graphs
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Pi_HDC1000
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Pi_INA3221
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 RTC_SDL_DS3231
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Pi_FRAM
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Adafruit_ADS1x15
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Pi_TCA9545
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1731 Nov 1 16:07 Scroll_SSD1306.pyc
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Pi_SI1145
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 1 16:07 SDL_Pi_AM2315
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2232 Nov 1 16:07 crcpython2.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1761 Nov 1 16:10 conflocal.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2243 Nov 1 16:21 WeatherUnderground.py
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1419 Nov 1 16:21 conflocal.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1928 Nov 1 16:21 WeatherUnderground.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2182 Nov 1 16:25 WeatherUnderground.py.save
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 54477 Nov 2 08:32 GroveWeatherPi.py
drwxr-xr-x 2 pi pi 4096 Nov 2 08:59 SDL_Pi_WeatherRack