Nov. 10th we had a huge storm here in Yucatan. They are called Nortes. They come to us from the North, hence the name. I saw this one coming across the water from New Orleans (today is first son's birthday and he lives in New Orleans- must have been partying too much there! Caused quite a storm).
The clouds were very dark and rolling across the Gulf fast. We had time to put things away and close the windows just before the storm hit us. The gale force winds hit and the palm trees started swaying, some broke off in town here. The rain was coming straight at us from the Gulf, and came under the door towards the beach, windows on the beach side and side of the house were leaking water and flooding the rooms. We got cloths and put under every window, got a bucket and wrung out cloths for an hour and a half. Lucky for us it didn't rain that hard all night, or we might have had a flood here. The beach was underwater as the tide rose high. We did not have waves hitting the house, but our neighbor did. There is a sand bar just off the front of the house, which saved us, the waves broke further out.
In the morning, we cleaned up palm branches and flowers out of the pool and off the patio area. Everything else was fine. whew, made it through our FIRST norte, only 48 to go..... wow!
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