For the past week we’ve been getting Hurricane alerts and weather reports. Being from a place that doesn’t have tropical storms we took the alerts very seriously and were excited about our first real storm.
When the ministry of education declared that school will be closed for 2 days in honor of the storm, we realized that this was really happening and started preparations.
The day before the storm started out with cooler air, and some wind. It felt a little like a storm was coming… Not leaving anything to chance, we set out to prepare:
- emptied our two tents and secured them
- removed the tarps used for shade from our house and the school
- chased the water guy to come especially to fill in our nearly empty tanks so they would not fly away
- hid or put rocks in everything that looked like it could fly
- finished the preparation by putting a sack of sand on our back door which is the usual place from which rain comes in
- then we asked someone to get us groceries (house was rather empty) and waited…
The hurricane touched the southern and northern parts of Haiti
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| School closed... looks like a storm is coming |
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| Inbal fooling around with the kids on Hurricane day. |
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| No real storm... |
It rained quite a bit in the night after but all in all a rather disappointing tropical storm experience. On the bright side – those who are not curious visitors here, and especially the 1.3 million people living in tents probably prefer this version of the storm to the real one…
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| At night it rained... our front porch. Notice the LIGHT - we were connected to the electic company a couple of days ago! |
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| School the day after... |
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