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Published On: Jun 21, 2005 12:05 PM
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Published On: Jun 21, 2005 12:05 PM
Tropical Storm
On the good side, Gage's sickness lasted only the
morning. By the afternoon, he was up and playing again. Must have just been a
short illness.
On the bad side, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
Last night we heard about a storm that was coming that caused the Gautemalan school authorities to close all school for all kids for both Friday and Saturday. What was this storm, where was it, and where was it going? Well, in the house, there is a computer, but no connection to the internet. No help there. We watched the news at 2100, and to our horror, there on the NOAA graphic, was a tropical storm named Adrian! It was coming straight for the coast of El Salvador. Great! Here we are, 200 miles from our boat, with the first ever potential hurricane to hit El Salvador from the Pacific. The first storm of the season, nonetheless! We had not preapred our boat for a severe storm let alone a hurricane.
Today we called Heriberto Pineda at the Barillas Marina Club. Wonderfully, he had already taken down some of the sun covers that we left up. He agreed to take more of the stuff down, and we gave him the contact number for the house we're staying at. It will be another 12 hours of intense worry before we know what happened, and all we can really do is wait.
Our friends Sula are even potentially closer to the storm center (which this afternoon was upped to a Category I hurricane). We just spoke with them and they said it was raining hard but there hadn't been much wind (at 1730). We hope it remains that way for them.
For those of you in the United States, you've no idea how good and easy it is to access information. Consider yourselves lucky!
We're headed back to Guatemala City tomorrow to try to catch the first bus back to San Salvador. Unfortunately the hurricane is predicted to go right over San Salvador, so we've no idea how long it will be before we will be able to get back! More later...
On the bad side, just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
Last night we heard about a storm that was coming that caused the Gautemalan school authorities to close all school for all kids for both Friday and Saturday. What was this storm, where was it, and where was it going? Well, in the house, there is a computer, but no connection to the internet. No help there. We watched the news at 2100, and to our horror, there on the NOAA graphic, was a tropical storm named Adrian! It was coming straight for the coast of El Salvador. Great! Here we are, 200 miles from our boat, with the first ever potential hurricane to hit El Salvador from the Pacific. The first storm of the season, nonetheless! We had not preapred our boat for a severe storm let alone a hurricane.
Today we called Heriberto Pineda at the Barillas Marina Club. Wonderfully, he had already taken down some of the sun covers that we left up. He agreed to take more of the stuff down, and we gave him the contact number for the house we're staying at. It will be another 12 hours of intense worry before we know what happened, and all we can really do is wait.
Our friends Sula are even potentially closer to the storm center (which this afternoon was upped to a Category I hurricane). We just spoke with them and they said it was raining hard but there hadn't been much wind (at 1730). We hope it remains that way for them.
For those of you in the United States, you've no idea how good and easy it is to access information. Consider yourselves lucky!
We're headed back to Guatemala City tomorrow to try to catch the first bus back to San Salvador. Unfortunately the hurricane is predicted to go right over San Salvador, so we've no idea how long it will be before we will be able to get back! More later...
Posted: Thu - May 19, 2005 at 08:30 PM