Hurrican Dean Arrival

The city streets were deserted and the wind was howling like a lost soul buffeting against any object left exposed. The atmosphere was invigerating, fresh, and clean as though something was being reborn. Debre was strewn every which way and flying through the air. Accelerating clouds of multiple types and sizes were carening by and increasing at a faster pace by the minute.

Fruit from the trees were strewn everywhere. I was dodging kumquats dropping from the trees onto the uneven brick sidewalk. I was not able to dodge all of them and I couldn't get it out of my curly hair. Thank god no one was on the street seeing me jumping around the kumquats and trying to keep them from hitting me. It was a site to see.

The only thing I saw running around was a black dog, who stopped and licked his lips and begged for food. I gave him some of my powerbar, just like I use to do with my dog Crusher.

Hunkering Down waiting out Hurrican Dean

We were tired of packing and un packing this was the third hotel in 4 days, but we were happy to be out of the full strength of the storm. Even though we moved west and closer to the eye of the hurricane, it had a lot of land to cross and would change from a Catagory 5 to a 2.

The next day we went out an got more supplies and found some really cool fruit and vegetables. There was a fruit that is red and looks like a mini-pineapple. We are waiting for someone to try the first one, and it will probably be me.

Wal-mart was packed and the shelves were empty of duck tape and essential weather supplies. Batteries were no where to be found and alcohol was not being sold. The government deems it necessary to restrict the sale of alcohol and the residents need to go home and take care of their families. Even the resteraunts were not abel to sell alcohol. Well, we filled up the cart with the needed supplies - food and water for a few days. It was not to hard to get the supplies back to the room, since I took the shopping cart and wheeled it up to room. The storm has thank fully moved south and the rain bands are starting to drift in. The winds are picking up to 40 mph and people are going home early and getting off of the streets.
We will hunker down and wait out the storm at the hotel. To me this is the exciting part of seeing things flying through the air and all of the lightening and thunder, like Hurricane Andrew. I need to get some sleep before the main part of the storm gets here, because the wind is like a roaring train going by and thunder permeates everything. Back to the adventure of traveling to Mexico and wish me luck.