The Hurricane Hits...

Well, it was a decent show and from what I've heard, it was not as bad as it could have been considering the forecast at the time and the path that the hurricane took. The last major storm that came here through San Carlos was in 2003, Hurricane Marty, and was more severe than this one with more damage. During the morning as it was clouding over and starting to drizzle a bit I took my camera out to the beach and took some pictures of the pre-hurricane surf, which was quite intense. You can check out the pictures in my photo album and consider the fact that the waves generally are rarely bigger than 3 or 4 feet. After noon things turned up a couple of notches; the rain came down and the wind picked up as you can see in some of the videos. I was kept somewhat busy for the afternoon mopping up water that came in under some of the doors because it was coming down so fast. There was about half an hour or so where I could barely keep up.

By about 5:00, though things had settled down and it was mostly over. All in all we got about 3 inches of rain during the afternoon and the extent of damage was a couple of the smaller trees lost some branches. Other than than, all was well - chalk it up as another experience in Mexico...