Hurricane Zeta
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gopbroek
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The most important question is 'were the Coconuts photo albums protected??????
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I'm staying up late on December 31, not to welcome 2021 as I don't trust new years until I get to know them now. I just want to be sure that 2020 leaves.
You got evacuated from the island to the mainland? It looks like Playacar got hit harder than San Miguel.
Now Los Tacotales. With no walls, that roof was an open target, but I'll bet they get a new one up quickly as there wasn't much to the old one.
Lots of power poles down - those pictures look different than down the street from me, there's 6-8 down there. Seen one broke at the base but leaning against a house on 30. Poles down up north, down south one went down and burned a palypa next to Residence Reef or something. Street lights on 11, seen some steel roofing wrapped around wires - lots of stuff.
The police finally closed off the East side but only after some businesses were looted.
The mystery remains whether there is a purpose shutdown of the power grid - it seems everyone went dark around 8 and my power came back on at 3:20am - at 3:20 it wasn't full blown hurricane but it wasn't rainbows and unicorns either - I don't think someone was on a ladder connecting wires!!
My second hurricane ever and they tell me this wasn't even that bad. I'll say the wind was howling - there's a lot to wind direction and what problems you may or may not have. Trees 75' out back were bending 90 degrees and I could stand on my lower back porch and be hardly effected - I could walk upstairs and stand on my sons balcony, no problems. I have a two story house next to me and it took the brunt of the wind. The last storm was completely opposite........
It's amazing how everyone here pulls their pants up and just gets to work - doesn't matter what it is, whose problem it is - people just do it! The tire store down the street, was using there truck cleaning up the median on the block their store is on, you see that stuff everywhere, big and small.....
The police finally closed off the East side but only after some businesses were looted.
The mystery remains whether there is a purpose shutdown of the power grid - it seems everyone went dark around 8 and my power came back on at 3:20am - at 3:20 it wasn't full blown hurricane but it wasn't rainbows and unicorns either - I don't think someone was on a ladder connecting wires!!
My second hurricane ever and they tell me this wasn't even that bad. I'll say the wind was howling - there's a lot to wind direction and what problems you may or may not have. Trees 75' out back were bending 90 degrees and I could stand on my lower back porch and be hardly effected - I could walk upstairs and stand on my sons balcony, no problems. I have a two story house next to me and it took the brunt of the wind. The last storm was completely opposite........
It's amazing how everyone here pulls their pants up and just gets to work - doesn't matter what it is, whose problem it is - people just do it! The tire store down the street, was using there truck cleaning up the median on the block their store is on, you see that stuff everywhere, big and small.....
Our power went off at 10 and back on at 4:45 am. From people that I talked to here today that live in different parts of town, the power was not totally shutdown in any organized manner. During Delta we had power all night until 8 am.
This hurricane caused much more water to come inside than Delta. I think it's because we were first quadrant. We were up until 4 am mopping and wringing towels.
We did have very little wind on part of our balcony so we could go outside all night. 40 feet away at the corner the wind was shredding trees. Totally different hurricane than Delta.
This hurricane caused much more water to come inside than Delta. I think it's because we were first quadrant. We were up until 4 am mopping and wringing towels.
We did have very little wind on part of our balcony so we could go outside all night. 40 feet away at the corner the wind was shredding trees. Totally different hurricane than Delta.
I mopped for 2 hours non stop the last one, last night, barely a drop - just the wind direction. One thing, there's was very minimal rain last night - my yard never had standing water in it and water barely over the sidewalk out front - the other one we had over a foot in the backyard and 6-8" over the sidewalk out front.
gopbroek
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Here is an article from yesterday's Yucatan times (a fish wrapper)
Hurricane “Zeta” degrades again to a tropical storm after its passage through the Yucatan Peninsula.
What I did not like reading was the last paragraph:
"The hurricane season continues, and the models indicate that next week a cyclone will form between the 4th and 5th of November, in the same zone, and it would be more powerful than “Zeta,” but its trajectory is not yet defined."
Hopefully if 'Eta' forms it will go elsewhere.
Hurricane “Zeta” degrades again to a tropical storm after its passage through the Yucatan Peninsula.
What I did not like reading was the last paragraph:
"The hurricane season continues, and the models indicate that next week a cyclone will form between the 4th and 5th of November, in the same zone, and it would be more powerful than “Zeta,” but its trajectory is not yet defined."
Hopefully if 'Eta' forms it will go elsewhere.
did they just start ignoring the alphabet when naming these storms?
Charred
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There have been so many storms this year they exhausted the English alphabet and moved in the "back up" Greek alphabet.
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