Well, that was certainly an interesting night. I don't think very many people expected the storm to get quite that bad - the talk throughout the weekend was that we'd have a glancing blow from a Category 1 storm, not a raging Category 4. This shot is from our front door around 5 in the afternoon. The winds really picked up around 8 or 9 and got a little crazy. We were well protected, both being on the leeward side of the building, as well as the generator, wind screens on the balcony and hurricane shutters on the windows.
Haven't ventured out of our apartment complex just yet to see what other havoc Earl has caused. There was a curfew in effect from 6pm last night to 9am this morning, not that I would have been on the roads then in any case.
Now lets just hope we don't see any sort of repeat from Fiona.
