maybe368

Man! 50 minutes at sentri blows. I have never spent more than 10 seconds at the sentri lane in Nogales. It was never as bad here as the news said it was, it made for good copy and attracted a lot of viewers, but that is the way entertainment is...Mark

maybe368

Well I love my truck because it always gets me where I'm going. I hate my truck because it has impeccable timing. So I'm driving over to my new house and 30 seconds into it, my wipers fail, again, in the worst rain I have seen in Mexico, again. There is water surging over the berm and passing directly through the buildings facing the beach. I'll post up a vid in a few minutes...Mark

maybe368

Here is a vid of the normally calm bay...Mark

Here is one looking over the berm...


Here is water coming from a fishing business in Kino

crazy clem

Wow two hits phoenix and mehico, you came thru unscathed except for the wipers I hope .

maybe368

So far so good. Had a small amount of water in the boat house, but nothing serious. The drainage worked well, but I am afraid that much more rain may overwhelm it. I am cautiously optimistic that I dodged a canon ball. I feel real bad for the people around here that weren't so lucky, they certainly can't afford to lose anything. The sad part is that today is there 4th of July, not much to celebrate around here. I think that I have some wiper bushings in my tool box, I'll check tomorrow, thanks for your concern ...Mark

Alec

Glad you're making it okay through the weather. Hopefully the worst you'll have to deal with are a couple wiper bushings!

I watched our brook running over the top of the guard rail in front of the house a few years ago when Irene hit us, but I had plenty of dry ground to stand on . . . I'm glad I don't know what it is like to be any closer.

maybe368

Thanks man. The storm actually impacted about 150 miles north of us near Rocky Point as a tropical storm. I am sure of one thing, that I will never try to ride out a hurricane, that is just silly, especially a direct hit...Mark

Angry Johnny

When we got hit by hurricane Charlie I was sleeping (it was about midnight or so), my wife woke me up and said "Steve!, there's a tree on the back pooch roof and screen room." I said, "Did it hit the house?" She says "no". So I said, "OK, it will still be there in the morning." Then I went back to sleep.

maybe368

You my friend have some juevos grandes . They have opened an emergency shelter in the local elementary school. I just passed by it and it is full. It has now been raining for 3 straight days and I don't see any end in sight. Today we also have the wind because we are on the back side of it and I assume that all the air is moving into the low pressure above us. I feel really bad for the poor people here, there are only a few paved roads and everything looks like a giant pond. I would like to fix my wipers, but my boat is blocking one entrance to my boat house and a lake the other. I figure I'll just take another day off and hope the power stays on...Mark

patdaly

If you are ready, riding one out isn't terrible, but when I first moved to Florida back in 1989, I had no idea the power of those things, and some Florida folks, being more than a bit nutty, have what they call Hurricane Parties. I had just moved there when Hugo came a callin, it looked like we were the point to get hit, I agreed to welcome it with a couple of idiot local friends.........

Lets just say God smiled on me when he steered it north. After I saw the pictures of Charleston, I realized just how dumb some human beings can be.

maybe368

Yeah, the closest thing that I have ever seen to a hurricane, including this one, was a freak storm that passed through Phoenix about 10 years ago. The winds in my neighborhood were measured at around a hundred mph. I was standing on my porch looking at the palm trees all bent over thinking that I had seen that before. I had, on tv when hurricanes pass through. It was scary, all the awnings and lawn furniture in the neighborhood was flying through the air. I was afraid to leave my porch, fear is good, it keeps you alive.
It has finally stopped raining here and I got my wipers fixed, so I won't be needing them for another 5 years or so. I can't wait for the onslaught
of mosquitoes that should be fun. The last time a major Hurricane passed through here was Marty in 2003. The low area that is behind the beach berm in Kino Nuevo was a lake that took 4 or five years to dry. This one will probably be a year or 2...Mark

maybe368

Let me introduce you to hurricane Polo, it is forming in the same spot as the last two, Norbert and Odile. There is no projected path yet, but I'd bet my hiney that I'll be seeing it soon . Here are some pics of the beach, there are quite a few houses that are much closer to the water than they were a couple of days ago. The amount of trash that the sea deposited on the beach is astounding. It is normally a 6 mile long, beautiful, white sand beach, that is regularly cleaned up. I want to say that there is everything but a toilet, but I can't Those stair cases used to go all the way to the sand, it looks like the storm removed 1.5 to 2 meters of sand...Mark

maybe368

A few more pics. These houses are owned mostly by Americans and Canadians, although some are owned by Mexicans. I am sure that they are worried about their houses, but probably will not be here until it cools off in November...Mark

maybe368

A few more. I'm sure that the owner of the kind of orange looking house wishes that they had built a sea wall ..Mark

maybe368

Oh yeah, I forgot mister (miss?) Polo...Mark