Luckily, he found willing participants and things got done...like boarding up the windows.
I could hear pounding in the background last night when he called around 10pm.
We do need to get hurricane shutters, and this is definitely motivation!
His recent email is a little more upbeat:
Hola, electric is still on, obviously, grateful for that. rina has slowed down and is taking forever to arrive here. went to the store for more soup, PB and J all gone. bought some black beans instead. good thing still have gas stove. saw pics in cancun of "panic" and store shelves all bare; not so here, shelves quite full (except for the pb&j), nobody hurrying (to a fault.) , plenty of rain, but waves right now nothing special, about as big as with norte. kind of reminds me of a snow day back home when the forcast blizzard doesn't materialize; kids walking around the street with no school, just waiting for something to happen, as are we all. attached pic, David wants to wait to move furniture until "wind starts to blow."
note-(David, a local boat captain, is our downstairs renter. I'm sure he has a good 'feel' for weather.)
2 comments:
Better safe than sorry, but Rina's starting to fizzle out. Sounds like some wind and rain for tonight and tomorrow, but nothing like what was expected. Hope taking all the boards down is easier than putting them up!
Yes, guess that was the thinking.
But, what a pain! and expense, maybe for nothing...We'll keep them for next time :) Though, I guess the thing to get now our these mesh screens that roll down over the windows. Will look into that.
Glad the island is faring well! -kris
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