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yea it was beautiful outside today. My favorite time of the year.Feels like fall this morning.
Wow. That must have been terrifying.This reminds me of being on St. John in the USVI in 1989 before Hurricane Hugo*** hit.
Once EVERYONE knew the storm was hitting, mindsets changed.
We’d been in a house on the water on Chocolate Hole. It faced south/southeast and was all glass facing the water and Hugo was coming from that direction.
We went and rented a condo up high overlooking Cruz Bay….facing Northwest…..little did we know about Hugo’s winds as it moved across us.
The condo had these great, big mahogany shutters that could cover the windows. They closed with those itty-bitty little hooks used to close screen doors.
We found 10-12 pallets under the pool deck. We busted them apart for the wood planks. We closed the shutters and screwed the salvaged planks to the shutters. Oh, was the guy from the condo development pissed at us……we’d put holes in the mahogany shutters…..Our “handy work” held most of the shutters closed during Hugo. We’d run out of planks and screws and the wind destroyed shutters on two rooms and those shutters shattered the windows on those rooms…..not just the glass….the wood frames……nothing like hurricane-like winds in a bedroom after the wind blew out/in the windows.
We were in a little development of 12 condos. Two were occupied. Ours. The one above us. They’d done little to secure their shutters. They spent the bulk of the night in the bathroom (smallest room, smallest window).
Rule #1 - get the fuck out if a hurricane is coming.
Rule #2 - see Rule #1
The forecast yesterday had a 20% chance of showers for today. Now it's a 70% chance of rain and it's a monsoon outside. How can they miss it that badly in less than 24 hours?