How does it look around your neighborhood? My place sits on a hill, and we had some pretty strong winds, sufficient to take off large, living tree branches and to bring down a few trees in the park nearby. Using guides to wind speed based on physical damage I suppose our winds topped out at 60-70 MPH. The noise here was terrific, with the wind curling around the building; then, mercifully, the winds stopped, perhaps from 2 AM on.... Rina is now well to the north of us, and the sun is beginning to shine, just a little! (7:30 AM, Cancun time) I walked on the beach, yesterday, and I'm going to head that way again, ASAP! (Why else would anyone live here?!!) http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/flt/t1/avn-l.jpg
about the same , power went out during the 10th inning of the rangers game! I read in the paper some parts of the HZ flooded
For me there are lots of reasons to live in Cancun besides the beaches. I live outside of town and from the tracks I saw on internet, the center went right over me! Happened about 11 p.m. last night and lasted about 2 hours. To be honest, Rina had me fooled--no big deal, downgraded, ONLY a storm so I didn't take all of the precautions I should have. Note to self: Don' leave a ladder on the roof in a storm! It blew off and broke a small pipe that let water drain out of the tinaco but got it turned off and refilled before more wind blew an empty tinaco off! Other than that, lost a papaya tree (top heavy, rootless things that they are, it's not hard) and some fairly big branches from a huge Ceiba tree and lots of little branches. Couldn't leave my subdivision at 6:30 am due to downed trees on the main "avenida" but fortunately my neighbors beat me to the machetes! A little clean up to do and a stick fence to prop up but the tilapia are growing, the hens are laying, the sun is out and all is right with the world.
Little to report from here, the potholes are a little deeper and wider though. Looks like my banana tree is finished, the main trunk is leaning at a 70 degree angle resting on the tree next to it. Might try and prop it back up and see if it recovers.
Some branches, some garbage bins(apparently they do exist!!) and pieces of wood, was all that flew around Ave Sunyachen. The crappiest part? The "storm" was gone by 3am(pretty much), yet we just got our electricity back some 30 mins ago... Looking at Stormpulse, Rina is about to do her -u-turn, then come back towards us. Im still curious about the one south-east of us, now much closer and apparently growing. I think Ill leave the furniture raised up and windows secured for a couple of more days - hate to have to do it again, ugh. All in all: Calm night, went out to get some nice video as the thunder and lightning gave a pretty good show.
I lost power at 10 pm and it was on and off thereafter throughout the night. I kept the ceiling fan on above my bed so all I had to do was look up. At midnight the wind was really howling so I got up and taped all my windows. They were moist from condensation so I had to dry them to get the tape to stick. Woke up to the fan blowing and sunshine. Had cable and internet. No water though - Turns out I put in a service call 2-3 weeks ago to Aguakan, telling them that water was in the meter part of my meter. Looked like they made a service call (my meter was turned a noticable amount off center) in the last day or so and turned the shut off valve. The morons forgot to turn it back on so my cisterna did not fill for two days. Fortunately I had tons of water in buckets, jugs, etc., even my washing machine was full. Lugged a bunch up to the tinaco to get me through today so all is well. WE ARE BLESSED that we did not experience a Cat 3 hurricane; getting off easy.
I know, I couldn't believe it. Didn't get to see how it turned out. Go Rangers!!, game seven. Not having been through anything like this before, I was impressed. I was so unconcerned about it beforehand that I hadn't even looked to see where my wife had put the candles, and was stumbling around in the dark for awhile. And, how the wind did howl! Sounded like the end of the world, here. Wilma must have been terrifying. And, imagine, this was only a Cat 1- and maybe not even that- but the damage makes me think that it probably was.
No V, not even a 1 IMHO. About a mid range, or low middle T.S. Heck, the storm we had a couple of weeks ago was worse than Rina. Someone told me this was a weak storm because it had a letter missing. Had it been TRINA it would have been one to remember.
