They tell me this is the sunny time of year here. "Six months of not a cloud in the sky." Well it has been not true this year!
A week an a half ago, the clouds came in the afternoon. They have been doing that lately. Then is got windy, and rained. Then about 10 p.m. we had very hard wind, lightning, and rain. My power went out.
As I tried to peer through my screens, it was just too dark to see, until a streak of lightnening lit things up. To my amazement, the palms looked just like they do on TV when they show hurricanes in the southeastern US. The tops wer absolutly bent over into a tight bundle.
I live upstairs, on the side away from the beach. But my door opens to a breeze-way (a well-named hall) where the rain had flooded the floors and left a puddle outside my room. Things were banging loudly, so I went back in, afraid something would fly through the hall and hit me. My fears were well founded come morning.
Though there were no objects in my hall, other than water, there were trees down, walls and fences down, and power lines as well. Roof ceramic tiles--very heavy had come down in places. Palapas, the palm frond rooofs on some places, were torn up or fallen down.
The open market tents had damages to clean up and roofs to replace.
Many saws buzzed on the street, as clean-up crews cut down broken branches, freed trees from lines, and cut down broken, torn up trees, such as the beautiful orange Obaliscos, many badly damaged in the storm.
I never heard a word on the street before the storm that one was coming. Some later said they heard a bit on the radio. Mostly we were all surprised, as storms don't usually come inside Bandaras Bay, and rip things apart. The last hurricane was (I think) 2002, in Puerto Vallarta, where the Malacón, the grand walkway along the sea wall was torn up badly. This was much smaller, but very intense. the worst must have lasted no more than an hour.
After the storm, I slept the best sleep I had had in 10 years. Being weather sensitive sometimes has its advantages.
A week an a half ago, the clouds came in the afternoon. They have been doing that lately. Then is got windy, and rained. Then about 10 p.m. we had very hard wind, lightning, and rain. My power went out.
As I tried to peer through my screens, it was just too dark to see, until a streak of lightnening lit things up. To my amazement, the palms looked just like they do on TV when they show hurricanes in the southeastern US. The tops wer absolutly bent over into a tight bundle.
I live upstairs, on the side away from the beach. But my door opens to a breeze-way (a well-named hall) where the rain had flooded the floors and left a puddle outside my room. Things were banging loudly, so I went back in, afraid something would fly through the hall and hit me. My fears were well founded come morning.
Though there were no objects in my hall, other than water, there were trees down, walls and fences down, and power lines as well. Roof ceramic tiles--very heavy had come down in places. Palapas, the palm frond rooofs on some places, were torn up or fallen down.
The open market tents had damages to clean up and roofs to replace.
Many saws buzzed on the street, as clean-up crews cut down broken branches, freed trees from lines, and cut down broken, torn up trees, such as the beautiful orange Obaliscos, many badly damaged in the storm.
I never heard a word on the street before the storm that one was coming. Some later said they heard a bit on the radio. Mostly we were all surprised, as storms don't usually come inside Bandaras Bay, and rip things apart. The last hurricane was (I think) 2002, in Puerto Vallarta, where the Malacón, the grand walkway along the sea wall was torn up badly. This was much smaller, but very intense. the worst must have lasted no more than an hour.
After the storm, I slept the best sleep I had had in 10 years. Being weather sensitive sometimes has its advantages.
